Olympic Preparations

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

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

The path to success is to take massive determined action. - Tony Robbins

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

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

The Republic of China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman

For those determined to fly, having no wings is just a little detail. - Unknown

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

In the Moscow Olympics, Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion's race. - David Coleman

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

The common traits among all successful people are desire, determination and confidence. - Joe Segal

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 incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

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

Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams. - Brad Sugars

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

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

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

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

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

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence and caring. - Maxime Lagace

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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

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

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

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