Olympic Preparations

Aspire to inspire before we expire. - Unknown

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. - Gerry Sikorski

No goal is unattainable with individual determination. - Unknown

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. - John C Maxwell

No warning can save a people determined to grow suddenly rich. - Lord Overstone

A man's true height is determined by his thoughts and actions. - 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

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

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated. - joe-kster

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

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

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

I keep fit. Every morning, I do a hundred laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool - in a small motor launch. - Peter Cook

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. - H L Mencken

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only is they are determined to be so. - Charles de Gaulle

Never marvel at the strength of a man's words, but rather by the determination and truthfulness of his actions. - Unknown

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

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

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

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. - Orrin Woodward

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