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Being Your Best
 The following inspirational sayings, mottos, aphorisms, and maxims
were compiled by gymnasts and coaches at Pinnacle Gymnastics in
Medina, Ohio. Some of these ideas and concepts are gymnastics oriented
but most transfer into everyday life. Pick out your favorites and use
them to motivate yourself, your coaches, and your gymnasts. They also
make great inspirational signs for the walls of your gym. If you have
other motivational or inspirational sayings, that you feel would be
beneficial to others, send them to us and we will add them to the
list.
Inspirational sayings, mottos, aphorisms, and maxims:
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.
“I was restless. I was doing ok, but I was restless. One day it
occurred to me that I had been looking at life through the wrong end
of the telescope. It was up to me to turn it around – to make it
bigger, better, and more satisfying.”
Live life with no excuses!
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm!
Never let yesterday use up too much of today!
Be gentle and patient with people everyone’s bruised.
Make your dreams come true.
You’ve never accomplished anything until you’ve done your best.
You can’t make footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting
on your butt. And who wants to make butt prints in the sands of time?
You always miss 100% of the tricks you don’t try!
None of us can do it alone. Support your team.
In a time of drastic change, it is the learner who will inherit the
future.
Triumph is just a little “umph” added to try!
It is not the amount of time you devote, but what you devote to the
time that counts.
Miracles happen to those who believe.
If you think someone could us a friend, BE ONE!
Success doesn’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner
or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
All of our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue
them.
Hold a true friend in both hands.
Sometimes thing must first go wrong, in order to go right.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal.
Winners train, losers complain!
The only place “success” comes before “work” is in the
dictionary.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother
just to be better than you contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.
You will not find time for anything. If you want time you must make
it!
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to
get out of.
There are only so many tomorrows!
Those who are afraid to try are afraid to succeed!
Go For It!
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t
like to do.
Each of us shines in a different way, but this doesn’t make our
light less bright.
When you’re not practicing, remember, that someone somewhere is
practicing and when you meet her she will win.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you
haven’t!
Go for the moon. If you miss you’ll still be a star.
Talk less - say more!
Swallowing angry words before you say them is easier than having to
eat them afterwards.
Doubt who you will but never yourself.
Awards are made of metal, but winners are made out of blood, sweat,
and tears.
The body achieves what the mind believes.
You always pass “failure” on the way to “success.”
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight
in the dog!
Never settle for less than your best.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that
you can become.
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy!
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world because of little courage.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t
try.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little
extra!
Perfect practice make perfect!
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Live today like it is the last.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is
really over until the moment you stop trying.
It’s not enough to do good, one must do it the right way.
Success is never the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set
yourself on fire.
Today is a gift that’s why it’s called the “present.”
Your true friends are the ones who walk in when the rest of the world
walks out.
Knock the “t” off the can’t.
What is perceived is believed!
Many people spend half their time wishing for things they could have
if they didn’t spend half their time wishing.
Whiners not allowed!
Don’t settle for being good when you dream of being great.
If you’re headed in the right direction each step, no matter how
small, is getting you closer to your goal.
To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when no one else
will.
When people say you can’t, smile, then prove them wrong!
If better is possible, then good is not enough!
The best vitamin for making friends is “B1.”
Success comes in cans, not can’ts.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have
let go.
If you don’t lie down, nobody can walk on you.
The mind is the limit.
If you are a gymnast with advice for
other kids on how to Be Your Best, please email
us.
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