Quote Book

David and I have recently started a quote book. My sister Michelle came up with the brillant idea of compiling various quotes and keeping them in a book so that you can find inspiration at a moments notice. She gave my father, who loves quoting things from movies, famous people, books, etc, a quote book for Christmas with some of his favorite quotes already inserted. Now he just updates it when he reads, hears, or sees something he could later use for motivation for his team. Here are a few quotes that have already made it into my book:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"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."

- Teddy Roosevelt

“The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”

- Anson Dorrance, Vision of a Champion

Now it is time to hear from you! Let me know if you have any favorite quotes, movies lines, etc that would be worthy to include in a quote book!