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Inspirational Quotes
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.
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