"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination."
Michael Phelps

"People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows".
Ian Thorpe

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it".
Michael Phelps

"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. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals."
Kieren Perkins

"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from."
Ian Thorpe

"I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck."
Megan Quann

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

"Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally".
Michael Phelps

"The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move".
Alexandr Popov

"In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance."
Bachrach, great Chicago coach of the 20's

"I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits."
Leisl Jones

"I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me".
Ian Thorpe

"I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities".
Grant Hackett

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"Body does what mind prefers."
Lenny Krayzelburg

"Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself".
Scott Goldblatt

"I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing".
Pieter van den Hoogenband after 2000 Olympic gold medal swim

"For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in".
Ian Thorpe

"While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind."
Alexandr Popov

"I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice — to enjoy what you do".
Summer Sanders 1992 double gold medallist

"Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people."
Olympic silver medallist Marianne Limpert

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"I just refused to give up, to give up the dream. I was in excruciating pain, my arm was numb and they said it would be six months, if ever, for me to be back in the water. I thought my career was over, I was shattered but I never lost hope. I've always believed if you want to do something badly enough you will do it. Some told me that if you visualized healing an injury it would heal faster and that's what I did"
2004 Australian Olympic diving team qualifier Lynda Dackiw,
4 months before the Athens Olympics

"There is water in every lane, so it is OK."
Ian Thorpe (on being in Lane 5 for a final).

"I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them … DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD …whichever song really gets me going that night".
Michael Phelps

"Susie had no talent whatsoever. She's a little person who couldn't even make a final at a state meet - coming and showing the world that on sheer guts and determination you can do anything you want!"
Susie Maroney's coach Dick Caine after her 200 kilometre marathon swim from Mexico to Cuba

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

"I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for."
Ian Thorpe

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"Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn't think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool".
Lenny Krayzelburg

(Preparing for a race)
"I try and just relax and reflect on all the work I've done in the past season. That's one of the most important things, remembering your goals and how to swim your races. It's also important to get your mind off racing before you race sometimes".
Ian Crocker

"I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up".
Michael Phelps

"Enjoy swimming for swimmings sake. We have to spend far too much time in the water to not enjoy the process challenging yourself of moving through the water".
Jeff Rouse - Multiple Olympic Gold Medalist and swimming World Record setter

"I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!"
Petria Thomas, Athens Gold Medallist

"I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go."
Katie Hoff

"Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment".
Libby Lenton, world record breaker

"It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous".
Leisl Jones - world record breaker at the 2005 World Championships

"I always assume that whenever I race against Michael it's going to take something amazing like a world record to win. It's definitely faster than I thought I could go but you can't put limits on yourself."
Ian Crocker after a world record at the World Championships

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible".
Michael Phelps

"I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way". Michael Phelps

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"I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change." Leisl Jones

"I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast". Leisl Jones

"I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete".  Libby Lenton

"It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say.  I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'."  Leisl Jones

"Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock. Leisl Jones after smashing her own world record at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

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(Answering Jade Edmistone's comment that Jones was 'unbeatable') "I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is". 
Leisl Jones after breaking her world record at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

"Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do.  It's the reason why I was able to swim so well".  Libby Lenton after setting a Commonwealth Games record and beating Olympic champion Jodie Henry

"It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen."  Jade Edmistone after taking 2 gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

"I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight."  Sophie Edington after taking gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 100m backstroke in front of a home crowd.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked." Michael Phelps

"I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me" Michael Phelps

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Other Inspirational Quotes

Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.

Act as if it were impossible to fail and it will be.

Actions speak louder than coaches. (Speedo ad)

Always remember, whatever the goal--keep your eye on it.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

A winner makes committments to a goal, a loser makes promises.

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Defeat should never be a source of disappointment, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Faith can move mountains, doubt can create them.

Focus on your strong points when you visualize your race.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness that precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Go hard or go home. (Speedo advertisement)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones.

Losers let it happen, winners make it happen.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's very best.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Only those risking to go far will ever know how far they can go.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Practice is 90% physical-10% mental. Championship meets are 10% physical-90% mental.

Pride, intense pride, that's what it all comes down to.

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they themselves discovered than by those which have come from others.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Swim each practice as if it was the most important practice of the year.

Take the best team and the worst team. Line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The winning team has a dedication--they won't accept defeat.

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Take all defeats as temporary setbacks.

The road to success is always under construction.

There is always room at the top.

The swimmer who says, "It can't be done" is passed by the swimmer who is doing it.

The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

The harder your work, the luckier you get.

The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond into the impossible.

The swimmer that makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Trust your hopes, not your fears.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

We accomplish in proportion to what we attempt.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

When you are behind, don't give up; when you are ahead, don't let up.

You can motivate by fear and reward, but these are temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however.

You can't do anything by doing nothing.

You create your own luck.

Your toughest opponent is in the mirror.

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Other Favorite Motivational Quotes

"It's never too late to be what you might have been".
George Eliot

"We become what we think about all day long".
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We tend to get what we expect"
Norman Vincent Peale

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right".
Henry Ford

"This world is but canvas to our imaginations".
Henry David Thoreau

"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosavelt

"We are what we think".
Buddha

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better"
Emile Coue

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not"
George Bernard Shaw

"I am the greatest!"
Muhammad Ali

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours".
Thoreau

"If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it".
Albert Einstein

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings".
William Blake

"Some people see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not"
George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein

'I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"
Thomas Jefferson

"It's not the situation…… it's your reaction to the situation"
Bob Conklin

"We tend to get what we expect"
Norman Vincent Peale

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"
Thomas Paine

"Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it"
Unknown

"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
Napoleon Hill

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"Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance"
Samuel Johnson

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
Albert Einstein

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds"
Norman Vincent Peale

"Seize the day, Carpe Diem"
Quintus Hortius Flaccus 65BC - 8BC

"The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant"
Taisen Deshimaru

"Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable"
Anonymous

"To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore"
Rocky Marciano

"When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top"
Anon.

"The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed"
Dr. Denis Waitley

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be"
Bruce Lee

"The only lack or limitation is in your own mind"
NH. Moos

"Your altitude is determined by your attitude"
Anon.

"If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless".
Jay Sidhu

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"The secret to acheive true success is found in your daily routine."
Author Unknown

"People may say you are going the wrong way, when it is simply a path of your own."
Anon.

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles"
Claude M. Bristol

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle".
Albert Einstein

"The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do".
Walther Bageholt

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes".
St. Clement of Alexandria

"Faith will move mountains"
Proverb

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one".
Eleanor Roosavelt.

"Integrity has no need of rules".
Albert Camus

"Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it".
Anonymous

"Knowledge itself is power".
Francis Bacon

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you".
Seneca

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm".
Henry David Thoreau

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"Follow your bliss".
Joseph Campbell

"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action"
David Seabury

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
Andrew Jackson

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain


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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montagu

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. Rudyard Kipling

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

What you become is more important than what you accomplish.
Anonymous

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new
Brian Tracy

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. - William DeMille
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
George Matthew Adams

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

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
Beatrice Vincent

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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.
Jean Church

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Jill McLemore

We are new every day.
Irene Claremont de Castillego

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
Jacob M. Braude

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
James Agee

Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
Pablo Casals

The real issue is not whether to grow, it is how to grow and for what purpose.
Anonymous

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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.
Bruce Barton

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Cicero

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
Henry Ford

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Shelley

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
James K. Feibleman

What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis L. Dunnington

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mrs. Ernest Hemingway

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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill

The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about.
Melvin J. Evans

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert L. Stevenson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. Thomas Crum

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Seneca

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
John F. Kennedy

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
Langenhoven

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Steven Covey

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.
Jonathan Larson

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
James Harvey Robinson

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer

He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J.F. Clarke

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. Turkish proverb

Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
Lloyd John Ogilvie

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov

No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.
Anonymous

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Gill Atkinson

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
Justine Milton

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup. Sam Lefkowitz

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
St. Augustine

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.
Scott Murray

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully

Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Norwegian proverb

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.
William Saroyan

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis

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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
Mencius

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.
Goethe

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb

What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished.
Tim Tweedie

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cordes

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis De Sales

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell

People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Our first and last love is - self-love.
Bovee

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas Macaulay

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles du Bois

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz

Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem to be. Character is what you really are.
Alfred Armand Montapert

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Francis C. Kelley

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.
Christine Frankland

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!
Winston Churchill

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. (from "A Return To Love")
Marianne Williamson

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Your Mindset Approaching a Big Meet	Get Results - Swimsuit or No Swimsuit!
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How Elka Graham Mastered Marshalling Area Pressures	Power In The Mind Creates Power In The Body
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Why You Have No Limits	Dealing Positively and Quickly With Pressure Situations
Work On Your Weaknesses But Focus On Your Strengths	Secrets Of The Successful Swimming Mind
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The Grant Hackett Mindset	The Ultimate Way To Handle Intimidation
The No.1 Way To Deal With Any Swim Problem	The Power of Emotions
Comeback Stories Behind the Australian National Titles	Building Up To A Big Event
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Finding Your Perfect Pre-Race Mental Formula - And What The Champions Do.	Achieving Your Potential With Visualization
Swim Success Through Your Self-Image	Boost Your Racing Confidence
Examining Your Swim Beliefs	Creating A Champion Attitude
A Master Mental Training Secret	Breaking Out Of A Slump
The Art of Zen Swimming	The Danger of Comparing Yourself With Competitors
Power Thoughts For Before Races	Competing With Your Team Members
How to Remain Unaffected By Intimidation	A Classic Mindpower Principle To Help Your Performance
The Day Of A Swim Meet - The Perfect Attitude	Olympic Impressions From Athens
Switch On, Switch Off Concentration	Using Your Competitor's Energy!
Leisl Jones's Record-Breaking Visualization	New Secret Technique! Finish Races With A Burst Of Power
Breaking Negative Race Patterns	Thoughts To Avoid Before Races
Personal Success Improves Swimming Success	Making Cuts and Achieving Specific Times
Emotions And Meets	Leading The Race On Your Own
Swimming Successfully Under Pressure	Revisiting The Zone - The Most Powerful Mental State
Using Movies and Music For Motivation	Mental Recovery For Your Next Race
The Most Powerful Knowledge A Swimmer Can Have - To Know Yourself!	Using Atomic Theory To Swim Faster!
Dealing With Pre-Race Doubts & Performance Anxiety	Dealing With A Crisis In Your Swimming
Handling Pain And Fatigue In The Pool	How To Edge Out Your Major Competitors
Maintaining Your Vital Swim Confidence	Observing, and Creating, New Champion Qualities
Moving To A New Team	Mental Training To Overcome False Starts
Dealing Mentally With Your Competitors	How To Achieve A Specific Time You Need To Qualify
Bringing Mental Training Into Your Swimming Life	The Zone
A Crash-Course in: Your Mind and Body in Swimming	Monitor Your Thoughts Before A Big Race
Develop An Expectation To Succeed	Visualization - An Amazing Tool To Bring Down Your Times
You Must Be ONE With The Water!	Mastering Your Main Competitor - Yourself
Will To Win - Accessing The Fire Within	Motivating Yourself When You Feel UN-Motivated - Making Success A Habit
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Racing Suit Psychology	Overcoming Racing Paralysis
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Even The Best Use Mind Games	Channel Nervousness Into Energy
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Knowing How To Win	Beating Faster Swimmers!
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