CHAMPIONSHIP THINKING: 69 THOUGHTS TO KEEP YOU MOTIVATED

By Rob Gilbert, Ph.D.

 

 

How long do you stay motivated? One day? One week? One month? One season? A true champion stays motivated until he reaches his goals.

Motivation starts in your mind. You become what you think about. In this article, you will find motivational quotes, which will inspire you. Read them. Review them. Post them. Remember them. Use them. Live them.

1. The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
2. Losers try; winners do.
3. If you decide you want to be a champion and commit yourself to it…then the work is no problem.
4. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
5. Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.
6. There is no failure just feedback.
7. Good…better…best…never ever rest until your good gets better and your better gets best.
8. You have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win.
9. What you do today you do even more of tomorrow.
10. If life give you lemons—make lemonade.
11. Do it! Do it right! Dot it right now!
12. A winner focuses; a loser sprays.
13. Inch by inch anything is a cinch.
14. If you do not know where you are going, you might wind up where you are headed.
15. You are never going to get the fruit unless you go out on the limb.
16. Whether you think you can or whether you think you cannot…you are right in either case.
17. Never, never, never quit!
18. Losers try; winners do!
19. A loss will test you but it need not stop you.
20. A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
21. Success is never final and failure is never fatal.
22. The greatest satisfaction in life comes from overcoming obstacles.
23. Act the way you want to become and you will become the way you act.
24. Determination is often the difference between victory and defeat.
25. Success requires more backbone than wishbone.
26. You are stronger than your fears and better than your failures.
27. The toughest victory is over yourself.
28. Success is not getting there but earning the right to be there.
29. Doing just enough to get by is not enough to get ahead.
30. If you do not live it then you do not believe it.
31. If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
32. Victory favors those making the fewest mistakes.
33. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
34. Think big. Work hard. Have a dream.
35. Obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
36. All things are difficult before they become easy.
37. The only place success come before work is in the dictionary.
38. If you hold on longer than you think you can—things will work out.
39. Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
40. Yesterday is gone forever; tomorrow may never come; today is yours—use it!
41. If at first you do not succeed—try another way.
42. It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
43. If it is to be, it is up to me.
44. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
45. Act as if it were impossible to fail.
46. Habit is everything.
47. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.
48. The impossible is often the untried.
49. A loser finds difficulty in opportunity; the winner finds opportunity in difficulty.
50. If you have tried to do something and failed you are vastly better off than if you have tried something and succeeded.
51. Do what you are doing while you are doing it.
52. Nothing negative will come from being positive and nothing positive will come from being negative.
53. If you do not make mistakes…you are not doing anything.
54. You must believe that you can do what anyone else can do.
55. Success is an attitude. Get yours right!
56. It is not the cost—it is the result.
57. Work smarter not harder.
58. You are your biggest competition.
59. You can always do better than your best.
60. There are no limits.
61. Bury the words “can’t”, “if”, “impossible” and “unfair.”
62. Be here now.
63. No guts, no glory.
64. Real strength comes from commitment.
65. The bigger the goal, the more motivational it becomes.
66. Don’t think big—think BIGGER!
67. One day at a time.
68. There are no excuses.
69. It is in your hands—GO FOR IT!