What is your favorite motivational quote?

[Chett]

I read a book recently that was filled with motivational quotes. The book included a quote I came across when I was attending a school while serving in the Marines. The quote is by Theodore Roosevelt and perfectly sums up why I cannot just let a goal or endeavor slip through my fingers and never attempt it. The quote is below.

“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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

What is your favorite motivational quote and why? Your favorite quotes will be featured over the next few weeks.

[Chett]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

–Mark Twain