Personal Best Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

  Jenny Meadows

  Race, Goal, Feelings

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Mean, Opposites

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• The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Simplicity

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• Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Pushing, Steps

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• It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

  Tom Daley

  Mean, Champion

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• I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

  Bonnie Blair

  Satisfied, Can Do, Ifs

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• I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

  Camille Duvall

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Camille Duvall, Nancy Crowell (1992). “Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.

  Adina Porter

  Trying, Curious, Beats

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• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Team, Race, Games

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Guy, Useless, Want

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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