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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Power of Words

Over the years I have found various quotes from historic figures, bands, etc. to be helpful in motivation and getting you through the tough times in training or just life in general. So, with that being said, I figured I would share with you some of my favorite quotes, let me know yours as well:

“Broken dreams are built to make you strong.” - Authority Zero (Band)(This quote is actually printed on my competition shorts)

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucious

“Look in the jaws of your own demise, watch your life pass before your eyes. Did you live like a dream come true, or did you just survive? Did you do all you could do? In a fall from a burning tower, what would you do with just one more hour? Live that hour out everyday like it was your last, you’ll live much better that way.” - Pennywise (Band)

“A strong man doesn’t need to read the future, he makes his own.” - Solid Snake (Video Game Character)
“If I could change the past, I never would. Some call them mistakes, I call them lessons learned.” - Authority Zero

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”  - African Proverb

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”  - Truman Capote

“All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you, ‘You will have to grow up, be an adult, be bored and unfulfilled’, when no ones yet explained to me exactly what’s so great about slaving 50 years away on something that you hate.” - Frank Turner (Musician)

“Don’t be blinded by the glare you see. Keep on in search what makes you happy, make it happen, go, and dream. Dreams become a reality. Run with this life, believe in all you’ve dreamt, and keep on trusting in who it is you are.” - Authority Zero

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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