THE HEART OF GOLF INSPIRATION PAGE Helping you practice positive self-talk in sports and in life In golf, as in all sports, what you think and say as you play has an affect on your game. Here is a collection of positive quotes, words, phrases, and poems to inspire, motivate, and encourage you before, during, or after your game. It is a great resource for parents, coaches, and kids to help practice positive self-talk in sports and in life, and develop the Can-Do attitude. This is an evolving collection, so we invite you to come back often for more inspiration and ideas. The collection is in two parts; the first section is especially for children, followed by a section of sports motivational quotes and inspirational quotes about attitude. Enjoy!
INSPIRING QUOTES FOR KIDS
On the day you were born, the world grew by one life with big purpose and much to be done. Look in the mirror. Love what you see. Stand tall. Smile big. Shout “Hooray for Me!” ~ Marianne Richmond, Hooray for You!
Pretend you are what you'd like to be. Make a picture in your mind so you can see that what you want can come true. If you believe in your heart, it will come to you. ~ Wayne Dyer, Incredible You!
You have brains in your head You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own And you know what you know You are they person who'll decide where to go. ~ Dr. Seuss
I can do whatever I put my mind to. And so can you! ~ Can-Do, The Little Golf Ball With a Big Attitude
Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. ~ Henry Ford
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese saying
All of our dreams can come true. ~ Walt Disney You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~ Michael Jordan
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. ~ Dr. George W. Crane
Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it…I can do it…I can do it. ~ Jon Erickson
I dream my painting and then paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
It’s always fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney
Impossible is just a word. ~ Cirque du Soleil
Shoot for the moon. Even if you don’t get there, you will be among the stars. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
What your heart thinks is great, is great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso
‘We sure shook that bridge,’ the mouse said to the elephant after they had crossed the bridge. ~ Anonymous
I’m not afraid of storms; I’m learning to sail my own ship. ~ Louisa May Alcott
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. ~ Michael Carr
It is your attitude more than your aptitude that determines your altitude. ~ Brian Tracy
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ~ Babe Ruth
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ~ William James
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~ Thomas Edison
Motivation is not a matter of will-power, it is a matter of want-power. ~ Paul Karasik
If anything is worth trying at all, it’s worth trying at least 10 times. ~ Art Linkletter
You are never a loser until you quit trying. ~ Mike Ditka
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. ~ Wilma Rudolph, Olympic Runner
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot do. ~ Ben Stein
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ~ John Wooden,Famous Coach
Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher than your thoughts. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
When it comes to luck, you make your own. ~ Bruce Springsteen
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~ African Proverb
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. ~ Wayne Gretzky
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ~ Bill Cosby
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Everything is possible for him who believes. ~ Mark 9:23
SPORTS MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT ATTITUDE
The Man Who Thinks He Can If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think that you dare not, you don’t, If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, It’s almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost, For out in the world you’ll find, Success begins with a fellow’s will, It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are, You’ve got to think high to rise, You’ve got to be sure of yourself before, You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can. ~ Attributed to Arnold Palmer
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who think he can’t. ~ Orison Swett Marden, Founder of Success Magazine
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~ Thomas Edison
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ Henry Ford
You are never a loser until you quit trying. ~ Mike Ditka
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~ Michael Jordan
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself. ~ Tom Watson
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking used when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~ Tuli Kupferberg
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
If you hear a voice within you saying, “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash
Other people may not have had high expectations for me…but I had high expectations for myself. ~ Shannon Miller
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. ~ Denis Waitley
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. ~ Mike Krzyzewski
Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life’s coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein
It is your attitude more than your aptitude that determines your altitude. ~ Brian Tracy
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
I used to say, ‘I sure hope things will change.’ Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. ~ Jim Rohn
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. ~ Denis Waitley
What this power is I cannot say, all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ~ Tony Robbins
God gives every bird a worm, but He doesn’t throw it into the nest. ~ Swedish Proverb
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. ~ Babe Ruth
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. ~ Lou Brock
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think, therefore I am. ~ Rene Descartes
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~ William Shakespeare
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG! ~ Donald Trump
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~ Thomas Edison
Impossible is just a word. ~ Cirque de Soleil
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ~ Richard M. DeVos
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift
The power of the imagination makes us infinite. ~ John Muir
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. ~ Zig Ziglar
Visualize the thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it, make your mental blueprint and begin. ~ Robert Collier
Champions aren’t made in the gym. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. ~ Muhammad Ali
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~ Washington Irving
We tend to get what we expect. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
High achievement always take place in the framework of high expectations. ~ Charles Kettering
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ~ William James
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ~ Napolean Hill
Everybody wants to change humanity, but nobody wants to change himself. ~ Tolstoy
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ~ Les Brown
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. ~ William Shakespeare
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. ~ William James
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not. ~ Denis Waitley
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything, ~ George Bernard Shaw
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. ~ Pope John XXIII
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. ~ Arnold Palmer
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. ~ Wayne Gretzky
No pessimist every discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ~ Helen Keller
Teachers can open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
I am still learning. ~ Michelangelo, at age 84
Dwell in possibility. ~ Emily Dickinson
Ya gotta believe! ~ Tug McGraw
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. ~ Napolean Hill
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they are always there. ~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~ Walter Anderson
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ~ Muhammad Ali
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. ~ Joe Namath
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~ Dale Carnegie
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffet
Success depends on singleness of purpose. ~ Vince Lombardi
You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated from short range failures. ~ Charles C. Noble
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by failing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind. ~ Bruce Lee
My motto was to always keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. ~ Hank Aaron
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting. ~ Buddha
When you get right down to the root meaning of the word “succeed,” you find that it simply means to follow through. ~ F.W. Nichol
Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. ~ Archibald McLeish
What is going on in the inside shows on the outside. ~ Earl Nightingale
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ~ Max DuPree
A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail??? ~ Anonymous
Everything is possible for him who believes. ~ Mark 9:23
