Going For It Quotes

• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

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

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Motivation, Winning

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Stills, Terrified

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

  Meryl Streep

  Liberation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

  Taylor Hanson

  Want, Knows, Keep Going

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• Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

  Julie Garwood

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Heartbreaker”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Needs, Pieces, May

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• One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

  Chris Weidman

  Regret, Opportunity, Mma

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• Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

  Catherine Opie

  Dream, Real, Land

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• Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

  Keith Richards

  Knowing, Sweat, People

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• Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

  Aimee Carter

  Mean, Brave, Things To Do

  Aimee Carter (2012). “Goddess Interrupted”, p.175, Harlequin

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• Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

  Louis Tomlinson

  Tiny, Chance, Ifs

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• For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

  Adam Croasdell

  Writing, Character, Matter

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• [the Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. But that's all it has going for it because they don't have a replacement. What they have put forth and outlined will cost more to consumers. It will cover fewer people. It will give tax breaks to the wealthiest people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, Giving, Cost

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

  Cyra McFadden

  Country, Maturity, Wish

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• There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

  Axl Rose

  Self, Cost, Appetite

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• Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn't have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it

  Nicola Roberts

  Fashion, Thinking, Jeans

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