Olympic Preparations

Aspire to inspire before we expire. - Unknown

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God. - Francis de Sales

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined. - Lauren Burns

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - John C Bovee

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go. - Michael Phelps

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard. - Jesse Owens

The best leaders inspire others to harness their utmost potential to benefit the common good. - Peter Tormey

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. - Bob Hope

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. - Colin Powell

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. - Paula Deen

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. - Zig Ziglar

Your belief in yourself and your company and your place in the world may be the main determination of your success. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. - Harvey Mackay

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it fro leaping and flying. - Francis Bacon

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. - Harold Goddard

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. - Wade Boggs