Swim Quotes - Page 3

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

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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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 one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

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

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• President Can't Swim.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Swimming, President

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Swimming, Men, Lakes

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• Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Baby, Water, Desire

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• You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

  Ryan Lochte

  Amazed, Knows, Can Do

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eggs, Golden, Fishes

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• All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Young, Difficult

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.63, Penguin

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want to them to stop thinking they're making a movie. I want them to just go and live. It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life, and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Fall, Angel

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• I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Tides, Annoying

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.188, Hachette UK

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