[Sportsandrec] Finding motivation

Sat Mar 25 22:14:40 UTC 2017

Well Shara it would help if you would include your website;
preferably, in your signature.

On 3/25/17, Shara Winton via SportsandRec <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Thank you so much for these gems. Love them all.
>
> Shara Winton
> Visit My Pampered Chef Website
> Like Me on Facebook !
> Visit MydoTERRA website
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Everett Gavel via SportsandRec
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:06 AM
> To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Everett Gavel <everett at everettgavel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Finding motivation
>
> Hello Rachel, and All,
>
> Below are some of the quotes I've gathered over the years, which I often
> reread to help motivate me. I hope you also may find the motivation you
> need, in the wisdom shared below. There are somewhere around 20 quotes,
> with
> a couple/few bonuses thrown in.  ;-)
>
>
> "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort
> and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
> controversy."
> -- Martin Luther King
>
> "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which
> you
> really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think
> you cannot do."
> -- Eleanor Roosevelt
>
> "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
> You must set yourself on fire."
> -- Reggie Leach
>
> "There's only one thing worse than somebody who quits and leaves-- and
> that's somebody who quits and stays."
> -- Author Unknown
>
> "Live each day as if YOU were a part of history."
> -- Author Unknown
>
> "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his
> enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
> -- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
>
> "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a
> thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
> -- William Jennings Bryan
>
> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
> -- Helen Keller
>
> Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then... find the way."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
>
> "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
> -- Wayne Gretzky (Hockey player)
>
> "I'm at that place in my life where I'm not afraid of dying.
> I'm afraid of not living."
> -- Eileen O'Malley, character in the movie, "Devlin"
>
> "True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action."
> -- Author Unknown
>
> "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
> -- Confucius
>
> "The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle."
> -- Motto of Navy Seals
>
> "Every man dies. Not every man lives."
> -- Tim Robbins, in The Shawshank Redemption
>
> "Our doubts are traitors,
> and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
> -- William Shakespeare
>
> "Action TNT! Action Today, Not Tomorrow!"
> -- Denis Waitley, "Focused Self-Determination"
>
> "Remember, today is the tomorrow you thought about yesterday."
> -- Unknown
>
>
> Lastly, beyond all that, all I can say is to force yourself to get out
> more,
> to associate with others more, to mix and mingle and participate and risk
> embarrassment more often, because, as ol' Ricky says...
>
> "You never know when you're making a memory."
> -- Ricky Lee Jones
>
>
> Oh, one more thing...  some of those memories you may end up creating could
> be ones you wish no one would remember. But that's life. It has nothing to
> do with being blind. It's a human thing. It happens. What is far more
> important is what Vince said here, which I'll leave you with:
>
> "It's not whether you get knocked down.  It's whether you get up again."
> -- Vince Lombardi (The man who 'invented' football as we know it today)
>
> Oh, okay fine, one more. Because this is something everyone, everyone,
> should keep in mind. Because when we fail at something, it's almost never
> the end. Mostly, this supposedly huge thing we refer to as, "failure," is
> just us tripping on the edge of a step in the staircase of life. That's it.
> So, I bid you farewell with this:
>
> "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
> -- Henry Ford
>
>
> Strive On!
> Everett
> In Colorado Springs
>
> ----- original message -----
> "I have gotten away from running. More recently, I am struggling to find
> the
> motivation to take a walk.
> My question to the list is how do you find the motivation to take that
> first
> step? What kinds of things do you tell yourself when the decision to
> workout
> seems like a choice between walking on glass and staying under a nice warm
> blanket?
> Warmly,
> Rachel Kuntz
>
>
>
>
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