Motivation Quotes

"One chance is all you need."

- Jesse Owens

""Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it. ” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,”—and we’re still running—“if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, ‘“Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”"

- Bruce Lee (as recounted)

""It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.""

- David Goggins

""Shut up legs""

- Jens Voight

"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'."

- Paul Tergat

"Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity."

- Michael Johnson

"Go find your team. Get to work. Whatever that work is that you find worth doing. Do it, and find some people to love who'll do it with you."

- Leslie Knope

"Hobbies? Organizing my agenda. Wait. That doesn't sound fun. Jammin' on my planner!"

- Leslie Knope

"I'm ready."

- Leslie Knope

"Organizing my agenda. Wait, that doesn't sound fun... jammin' on my planner!"

- Leslie Knope

"Now go find your team. Get to work. Whatever that work is that you find worth doing. Do it, and find some people to love who'll do it with you."

- Leslie Knope

"Hey, Leslie. It's Leslie. Hang in there. I love you. Bye."

- Leslie Knope

"Just for today, smile a little more."

- James A. Murphy

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."

- W.C. Fields

"If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."

- Les Giblin

"Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire."

- Dawn Gluskin

"Go girl, go."

"Push yourself because no one is going to do it for you."

"If not now, when."

""The quicker you run, the quicker you’re done.""

""The first mile is a lie""

""The first mile is a warm up. Mile two is a prick.""

""Run the day, don’t let it run you.""

""Pain is temporary, pride is forever.""

""The only way to finish is to start.""

""Keep going; your best run is yet to come.""

""Run with your heart.""

""Chase your goals, not the competition.""

""One step at a time.""

"At 30, you're not getting older. You're leveling up."