Motivation Quotes

"Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Now that you’re 21, it’s time to stop playing video games and start designing them."

- Melanie White

"Turning the big 4-0, well, that can seem like a blow. No worries though, as 50 will be here before you know!"

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Live your life and forget your age."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There is a moment in every race. A moment where you can either quit, fold, or say to yourself, 'I can do this.'"

- Gatorade ad

"The reason people want to run the marathon is because the challenge, physically, is you. The distance – how you get there – is all up to you and how hard you work. That's why people want to do it."

- Meb Keflezighi

"Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you’ve got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel."

- Deena Kastor

"Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit."

- Hal Higdon

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."

- G-Man

"Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion, you are already dead."

- Max Payne

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

- Cave Johnson

"I've struggled a long time with survivin', but no matter what you have to find something to fight for."

- Joel

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So just take it step by step."

- Ryu (Street Fighter Alpha 3)

"We don't get to choose how we start in this life. Real 'greatness' is what you do with the hand you're dealt."

- Victor Sullivan (Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception)

"I've struggled a long time with survivin', but no matter what, you have to find something to fight for."

- Joel (The Last of Us)

"Sensitive people are driven by an internal quest for meaning. When something doesn’t feel right, it can be difficult for them to push through and just “do it anyway.”"

- Jenn Granneman

"Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying."

- Grey’s Anatomy

"Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up."

- Dalai Lama

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live."

- Dalai Lama

"Do not listen to the voices that tell you that you aren’t good enough—whether they come from the outside (a teacher, a parent, a friend) or the inside (your own self doubts). If you feel the urge to write, if you have stories to tell, then the seed is already there and it just needs to be nurtured by the right mentors, guides, and editors. Follow that dream and don’t ever look back."

- Kristy McGinnis

"There will be times when you will feel like giving up, but keep going. You are always closer than you think."

"The marathon is a reminder that the hardest part of anything is often getting started."

"You can’t run a marathon without a little pain. But that pain is nothing compared to the pride you’ll feel when you finish."

"Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can"

"I O nly Fear Not Trying."

"No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch"

"The only difference between try and triumph is a little umph."

"Do Your Best"

"Slay the Day"

"I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear."