INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst.”
Martina Navrátilová
SPORTSMANSHIP
“If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.”
Bob Ley
SPORTSMANSHIP
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
Knute Rockne
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
Steve Maraboli
APPRECIATION
“Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”
Kahlil Gilbran
HEALTH
“I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.”
Nola Ochs
HEALTH
“Ask not for an easy life...ask for the strength to face the elements, to weather the storms; to be the might for the right and the weak, to be the voice for those who cannot speak, to see one's dreams to fruition with dignity, integrity, and grace.”
Giac Nguyen
STRENGTH
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
STRENGTH
“Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.”
McCallister Dodds
STRENGTH
“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.”
Edward J. Stieglitz
LIVE LIFE
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”
Jerry Spinelli
LIVE LIFE
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Sir Frances Bacon
COURTESY
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.”
Erastus Wiman
COURTESY
“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
Fran Lebowitz
COURTESY
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Sir Winston Churchill
OPTIMISM
“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing - light trumps darkness every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light.”
Jodi Picoult
OPTIMISM
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
OPPORTUNITY
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ”
Thomas Edison
OPPORTUNITY
“Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.”
Sir John Vanbrugh
GOOD MANNERS
“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.”
Amy Vanderbilt
GOOD MANNERS
“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”
Kahlil Gilbran
GOOD MANNERS
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”
Lawrence Sterne
GOOD MANNERS
“I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ”
Og Mandino