Going For It Quotes

• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

  Meryl Streep

  Liberation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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  You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Motivation, Winning

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• Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Needs, Pieces, May

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• You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

  Taylor Hanson

  Want, Knows, Keep Going

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• Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

  Julie Garwood

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Heartbreaker”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

  Keith Richards

  Knowing, Sweat, People

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• Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

  Catherine Opie

  Dream, Real, Land

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• Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Stills, Terrified

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• Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

  Aimee Carter

  Mean, Brave, Things To Do

  Aimee Carter (2012). “Goddess Interrupted”, p.175, Harlequin

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• Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

  Louis Tomlinson

  Tiny, Chance, Ifs

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• You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

  George Carlin

  Self, Drug, Peyote

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

  Chris Weidman

  Regret, Opportunity, Mma

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• You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.

  Conor McGregor

  Thinking, Mma, People

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• They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.

  Chris Sharma

  Motivation, Hands, Needs

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

  Matt Haig

  Flower, Earth, Planets

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• Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

  Brad Pitt

  Baseball, Talent, Screenwriters

  Source: www.wbur.org

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