Swim Quotes

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

  Rumi

  Gratitude, Today

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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

  Amanda Beard

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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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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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

  Barry Sheene

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• President Can't Swim.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Swimming, President

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

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  Swimming, People, Overcoming

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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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• Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

  Denis Waitley

  Swimming, Loser, Winner

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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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• My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

  Paula Poundstone

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can't put a limit anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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