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No matter how this past year went for you, use these 101 motivational
quotes to start 2016 off right.
BY RHETT POWER
Co-founder, Wild Creations@rhettpower
Another year has passed. It's time to start over with a clean slate. Maybe 2015
didn't go the way you planned; you didn't follow through with your great ideas
and your goals weren't met. Well it's a new year and a can be new you on
January 1.
Or maybe 2015 was amazing and you need to keep the momentum going. You
don't want to stop now! No matter how this past year went for you, use
these 101 motivational quotes to start 2016 off right.
2. "Fitness is not about being better than someone else, it's about being
better than you used to be."
4. "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph." -Marvin Phillips
5. "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full
potential: these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
-Confucius
7. "Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back,
everything is different?" -C.S. Lewis
8. "A year from now you'll wish you had started today."
9. "The voice in your head that says that you can't do this is a liar."
12. "Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better." -Jim Rohn
13. "The only workout you'll regret is the one that didn't happen." -Bob
Harper
14. "Don't put in half of the effort unless you're okay with half of the results."
15. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and
live the rest of your life as a champion.' " -Muhammad Ali
19. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." -Jim
Ryun
20. "It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing."
22. "There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." -Roger Staubach
24. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Lao Tzu
25. "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to
accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." -Earl Nightingale
26. "A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat,
determination and hard work." -Colin Powell
27. "Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going." -Jillian Michaels
28. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." -
Confucius
29. "No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone sitting on the
couch."
Changing your attitude?
30. "Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to
it." -Charles Swindall
31. "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in
the rain."
33. "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!' " -Audrey
Hepburn
34. "Things work out the best for those who make the best of how things
work out." -John Wooden
35. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look
at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey
36. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the
airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford
37. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -Norman Vincent
Peale
38. "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -Booker T.
Washington
39. "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." -Dalai Lama
40. "Don't fear failure. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." -Bruce Lee
41. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt
42. "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."
44. "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu
48. "You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."
51. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." -Jim Rohn
52. "If you can dream it, you can do it." -Walt Disney
53. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore
Roosevelt
54. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry
Ford
55. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." -Steve Jobs
56. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -
Ayn Rand
57. "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." -
Farrah Gray
58. "I would rather die of passion than of boredom." -Vincent van Gogh
60. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to
be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les
Brown
63. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -
Winston Churchill
64. "The only place SUCCESS comes before WORK is in the dictionary." -
Mary Smith
65. "No great achiever--even those who made it seem easy--ever succeeded
without hard work." -Jonathan Sacks
66. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
68. "You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever
control you." -Dave Ramsey
69. "Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self." -Nathan
W. Morris
70. "Never spend your money before you have it." -Thomas Jefferson
71. "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what
you value." -Joe Biden
72. "The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from
usually doesn't know where his last dollar went."
73. "The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." -Henry David
Thoreau
75. "Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien
76. "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight
of the shore." -Christopher Columbus
77. "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." -George
Addair
78. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
80. "Focus on where you want to go, not where you currently are."
81. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do." -Mark Twain
82. "It's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand
times."
83. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. "Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over
and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from
the journey." -Pat Conroy
87. "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -
St. Augustine
88. "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great
affair is to move." -Robert Louis Stevenson
89. "You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe,
trust, let go, and see what happens." -Mandy Hale
92. "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left
undone." -Pablo Picasso
93. "Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you
don't even try." -Jack Canfield
94. "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward
95. "I'm gonna make the rest of my life the best of my life."
96. "The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." -Paulo
Coelho
97. "We were born to succeed, not to fail." -Henry David Thoreau
98. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." -Babe Ruth
101. "Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, 'Get the hell out of
my way, I've got things to do.' "
Look at this list often. Write your favorites on your mirror. Leave sticky notes in
your car. We all need little reminders to keep us going. As Zig Ziglar once
said, "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does
bathing--that's why we recommend it daily."