Inspirational quotes

[smart1]

Does anybody have any good quotes relating work to success. I think an inspirational quote can be a good way to instill positive values. I found a good one the other day “The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”― Vince Lombardi.

[GeeTwo]

The spotlight post (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/spotlightlist.php?) list is a good place to start.

[Sperkowsky]

Sometimes to innovate is to simplify - Me

[Andrew Lawrence]

"What are nationals? Sounds like a fun American party, can we Canadians come?" -Gregor Browning

[Anupam Goli]

Sometimes to innovate is to simplify - Me

"I like to quote myself a lot" - one of my friends

[David Lame]

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau

ETA: And I love the Lombardi quote. Much better than his more famous quote about winning.

[Abhishek R]

"We never even moved on Einstein, in 10 years!" - Chris P.

http://i.imgur.com/lfARBF9.jpg

The inspiration is too much for me to handle

[smart1]

I don't know that I understand the Einstein one. If you like the Lombardi one he also said "The only place success comes before work is the dictionary".

[MikLast]

"We are not building a robot, we are building a team that builds a robot." -One of the mentors.

[JB987]

"It's not enough"...Mark Leon , (It is now our team motto). Ask him why:D

[Ichlieberoboter]

First sentence of our chairman's essay:

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

–Vince Lombardi

[Jacob Bendicksen]

From our Chairman's essay this year...

"To do more for the world than the world has done for you, that is success."

-Henry Ford

[BrennanB]

I don't know that I understand the Einstein one.

118 made it to Einstein in 2002, 2005, 2012, and 2015. During their 2012 trip they never moved, so they haven't "moved" on Einstein in 10 years.

[msmathew726]

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus on the light -Aristotle Onassis

One of my favorites:
Believe you can and you're halfway there -Theodore Roosevelt

[cadandcookies]

I live my life by this one:

"A ship is safe at harbor, but that is not what ships are for." -William Shaw.

Other favorites:

"The most dangerous phrase in any language is 'We've always done it this way'" - Grace Hopper

"It seems perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[CaptainKirby]

One of my personal favorites from our lead mentor:

"Things don't get done unless somebody does them."

[Alex2614]

My personal favorite is from Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss). "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter. And those who matter don't mind."

I would also point you out to one of my favorite Seuss books, "Oh, the Places You'll Go." I won't post the full text here, because it is too long for a thread post, but I'll give you a link. http://denuccio.net/ohplaces.html
It's not just for kids, it's very, very meaningful for adults too.

[smart1]

I want to thank everybody contributing to this thread it's kind of taken off.

[GeeTwo]

I don't know if these are inspirational or perhaps cynical, but a few of my auto-signature lines over the years:

If you ask six experts a question and get the same answer from all of them, it's a question that you didn't need experts to answer.

[My day job] - where the impossible is routine, and a routine is impossible.

All improvement is change. Change that is not an improvement is for the worse.

Faith is not about belief. Love is not about emotions. Both are about actions that benefit others.

And now, the opening for our team's GP award that I wrote last week (I had to stop there, because the award ceremony is still in the future). And in case it isn't obvious from context, Northshore High is Slidell High's traditional rival.

Every large organization that seeks to make a difference in the world has core values that shape how it pursues its mission. The value at the core of FIRST is Gracious Professionalism. Professionalism is about hard work, striving for perfection, and respect for your fellows. Graciousness is about balancing pride and humility when dealing with the moments that really matter - victory, defeat, recognition, rejection, gain, and loss. Grace and Professionalism are both lofty standards, but like a team, Gracious Professionalism means so much more than the sum of its parts. Gracious Professionalism is about mentorship, cheering for your adversaries, and yes, even HELPING your adversaries. Gracious professionals share inspiration, ideas, and labor with their fellows - including the competition. Look in the pits at an FRC event, and you'll see scouts looking at the other robots - and the pit crews explaining their mechanisms - in enough detail to recreate them. Look on Chief Delphi, the social medium of FRC, and you'll see students and mentors swapping strategies and designs, and suggesting improvements for other teams. Look in the stands at an FRC event, and you'll see teams cheering for each other - including Slidell cheering for Northshore and Northshore cheering for Slidell.

[fr05ty27355]

One of my favorites is from plaque I bought. It reads:

Innovation: The best way to predict the future is to create it.

[Mykey]

Failure is not falling down; but refusing to get up.
- Chinese Proverb

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
- Captain Jack Sparrow

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time?
- Unknown

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
- Ghandi

Uuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhrrrrrr Aaaaaargh...
-Chewbacca

[GeeTwo]

Uuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhrrrrrr Aaaaaargh...
-Chewbacca
Translated: Capt. Solo, may I please rip his arms out of their sockets?

(and if that isn't inspirational, you don't know beans about Wookies)

[Dave_4539]

Something we say a lot:
"It should work."

Probably the opposite of inspiration...

[216Robochick288]

As my coaches would say

"There are two ways to do things. Right, and over."

"Lets get this road on the show!"

"Dont superman it. Not even superman could run a FIRST team on his own."

[jnicho15]

"We never even moved on Einstein, in 10 years!" - Chris P.

http://i.imgur.com/lfARBF9.jpg

The inspiration is too much for me to handle
That's awesome

[Daniel_LaFleur]

One of my favorites.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -- Thomas Alva Edison

[Al Skierkiewicz]

If you have time enough to fix it, you had time enough to do it right the first time.

The hardest thing in life is doing nothing...You never know when you are finished and you never know when you have done a good job.

[MysterE]

"You never have to ask permission to take responsibility." - From Creativity.Inc

[cadandcookies]

If you have time enough to fix it, you had time enough to do it right the first time.

I really like the contrapositive of this too:

"If you don't have enough time to do it right the first time, how do you expect to have time to fix it later?"

[IKE]

Does anybody have any good quotes relating work to success....snip...

"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." Cox/Jefferson depending which source you trust..

I think this one is a great one for teams looking for inspiration to be a "Champion".
Ask any team taht regularly makes it on to Einstein, and they will all tell you there is a bit of luck (right schedule, right division, right call made/missed...) on making it to or winning Einstein. Most of the regulars will also tell you though that they harder/smarter they work, the luckier they seem to get.

Once your team gets to a "good enough" level of play, they are good enough to be on Einstein, but some element outside of the teams control impacts them from making it, and is often viewed as Bad Luck. Often though, that "Bad Luck" can be mitigated through some other (occasionally extraordinary) effort.

[woudie]

This is something one of our mentors always tell us in regard to the stuff we do in FIRST, which I personally take deeply. "The Journey is the Prize"

[Brandon_L]

From my signature, which has a theme similar to ""Nothing great or new can be accomplished without enthusiasm" - Vince Lombardi " - Karthik
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnbcYnWCUAAZjT_.png

[the.miler]

Both taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhrU9CrGqCU

"Success is not an accident. Success is actually a choice."

Related question: "Are the habits you have today on par with the dreams you have for tomorrow? Because whatever you do on a regular basis today will determine where you're going to be tomorrow."

When members of a team decide to make executing at a high level a habit, a standard they always hold themselves to, then they will achieve greater things. That mindset to strive for excellence and constantly critique themselves in that pursuit is a choice they make every day.

[Hgree56]

My favorite quote: "the pessimist complains about the wind. The optimism hopes it'll change. The realist adjusts the sails."

I don't know why I love it, I just do.

[PayneTrain]

"I don't know if meth or Chief Delphi will do more physiological damage in the long term." - Gregor Browning

[bkahl]

"I don't know if meth or Chief Delphi will do more physiological damage in the long term." - Gregor Browning

Are you sure this isn't something YOU said?

[Wayne Doenges]

I love our motto
"We build Robots and Careers"

[Brian C]

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't...... You're Right!"

Henry Ford