Swim Quotes

• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Confidence, Believe

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• Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

  Rumi

  Gratitude, Today

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  You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Courage, Determination, Swimming

  Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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• Swim out of your little pond.

  Rumi

  Dream, Ponds, Littles

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  W. C. Fields

  Life, Swimming, Innovation

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• President Can't Swim.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Swimming, President

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't put a limit anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strength, Perseverance, Adversity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Tired, Rivers, Water

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.270, Random House

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• The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

  Joseph Campbell

  Water, Delight, Psychotic

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• Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

  Michael Phelps

  Fitness, Home, Swimming

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  Jim Moran

  Positive, Future, Swimming

  Jim Moran (1996). “Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man: Inside the Heart of One of the Most Successful Marketers in the Automobile Industry”

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

  Denis Waitley

  Swimming, Loser, Winner

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• I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Drinking, Happy Friday

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• Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

  Michael Phelps

  Sleep, Can Do, I Can

  "Nutrition tips: what to eat and when", www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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