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Motivational Quotes

(I got most of these quotes from little good-luck cards and team spirit things...
great for determination and courage.)

"Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world." 
-Frederick Buechner
(quote from Bridget)

Every time your toe is at the line, you make a choice.
 You choose to run the race of your life
 or you choose to see what happens.
-Amy Leicht

The characteristics that make a good person also make a good athlete. Respect, the ability to work with others, an unselfish attitude, dependability, commitment, and pure determination are frequently more important to athletic success than raw talent alone. Athletes with a lot of desire can go further and become more successful than others who have more ability. Lucky is the athlete who has both talent and a good character.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
-from Coach

To walk with Him is to walk in light.
The lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?
Psalm 27:1

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
Till it seems as though you could not hang on a moment longer,
Never give up then,
For that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am only one;
But I am still one.
I cannot do everything,
But I can still do something,
I will not refuse to do something I can do.
-Helen Keller

The glory is not in never failing,
But in rising every time you fail.
-Chinese proverb

Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.
DARE TO SOAR!

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.
An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind,
but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment,
 and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
-Harold Melchert

Excellence is an art won by training and habit.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-from Golden Shoe Award

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.
Win a little now, hold your ground and later win a little more.
-Louis L'Amour

The currents that determine our dreams and shape our lives
 flow from the attitudes we nurture every day.
-from Coach

The smallest deed always exceeds the grandest of intentions.