Motivational Quotes
For those who haven’t seen my recently updated signature, I feel its worth sharing it here. I like finding good quotes and sharing them. Internalizing the words of another is a main driver for me because it comes with the added credibility of third party validation. I was browsing different authors on T-Nation and came across this one that I absolutely agree with because I’ve experienced it! At one point I thought I was overtraining. Now I look back and realize my diet was not where it needed to be, hence my low energy. These days I’m more dialed in and workout harder than ever before and recover faster! This first quote is the one that prompted this entry. Though, I figure since I’m already posting this I may as well throw in some additional ones while I’m at it. I’d love to hear what you guys think of them!
"Given that manual labor plays such a minimal role in most peoples’ lives, it’s laughable that the idea of overtraining even comes up. Also, many confuse fatigue with overtraining or undernourishment. Don’t confuse ‘overtraining’ with fatigue brought on by poor diet, poor sleep habits, or even the psychological process of not being comfortable with working hard." - John Davies, T-Nation
"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbor’s faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm, peaceful mind." - St. Francis de Sales
"The person who criticizes others all the time is, in reality, unhappy with oneself. He or she concentrates on what’s wrong with everything instead of what’s right with it … This person concentrates on the specks of dust that may be found on any masterpiece and, as a result, goes through life missing the beauty and the wonders of life." - Earl Nightingale
"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere." - Orison Swett Marden
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." - Bruce Barton
"Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself." - Walter Anderson
"My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be." - Reed Konsler
"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle." - attributed to Abraham Lincoln
"Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." - Edwin Louis Cole
"You have to recognize that every ‘out front’ maneuver you make is going to be lonely, but if you feel entirely comfortable, then you’re not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd." - John Masters
"Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself." - Vilfredo Pareto
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
"I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything." - George Herbert Palmer
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." - Thomas Szasz
"There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow." - Christopher Morley
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better." - Mark van Doren
"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." - Richard Cecil
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" - Gian Carlo Menotti
And this last one is a personal favorite…
"Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates." - Abbott Lawrence Lowell
