My fave Muhammad Ali quotes
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given, than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.”
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
"Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."
Potpourri of Great Quotes
"There is no try. Only do or do not."
~Yoda
"We are men of action, lies do not become us."
~Westley (William Goldman)
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
~Theodore Roosevelt
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
~Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear (Frank Herbert)
"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."
~Sylvester Stallone
"When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom."
~Frank Herbert (Author of Dune)
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
~Thomas Carlyle
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
~Marie Curie
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
