Getting Going Quotes:

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

- RuPaul

topic: Tough, Inspirational Office, Moving On In Life, Change Agent, When Life Is Hard

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

- Joan Bauer

topic: Reading, Book, Thought Provoking, Inspirational Office, Life Is Tough

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

- Erma Bombeck

source: RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

topic: Cookies, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians, Life Is Tough

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Ribs, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians, Getting Through Hard Times

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

- Bret Easton Ellis

source: FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

topic: Drinking, Naps, Tough Times, Inspirational Office, Getting Through Hard Times

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

- Walt Disney

topic: Appreciation, Communication, Mean, Live For Yourself, Explicit

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

- Cathy Hopkins

topic: Courage, Determination, Swimming, Waiting For You, Motivational Swimming

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

topic: Motivational, Positive, Funny Inspirational, Daily Work, Just Stay Strong

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Sleep, Naps, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians

I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.

- Colin Dexter

topic: Mean, Writing, Thinking, Getting Started, Getting Going

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

- Brian Chippendale

topic: Fun, Needs, Language, Getting Going

Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.

- Grete Waitz

source: Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Emotional, Punishment, Getting Going, Half Marathons

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

- Bob Dylan

topic: Past, Night, Air, Dreamy, Getting Going

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

- Tom Felton

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Age, Age Of 20, Getting Going

Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'

- Terry Mosher

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Thinking, Looks, Forget, Getting Going