Do your best!

About the cards

These cards are a bit of inspiration that help keep me going. I hope they do the same for you.

Who is this sheet for?

These pages are for you and your students. If you are anything like me and need a little motivation to get you going, these
can be a big help.

Using the worksheet

Print them out and have a saying of the week or month in your class. Whenever I come across really amazing phrases or
quotations Ill continue to add them here.

Credit
The phrases have been attributed to the people who said them wherever possible. In one case I have taken credit for a
creative paraphrase of something that Arnold once said. I have never found any evidence that he said those words but he
gave me the idea for the phrase. Check out more of my illustration and educational design at:

www.myenglishimages.com

and my portfolio at: www.kloran.com

 can
we
can
I
anything
do,
do better.
Do
your BEST
and
forget
the
Tony Horton
rest!
 12
If not us,
then
If now,
not who?
then
Gandhi
when?
Success
is how
bounce
high you
when
you hitbottom.
George S Patton
 This will not be easy,
I accept that.

Knowing this,
I will not complain.

I might not always succeed,

but I will never fail.

M Kloran
This
& it s LIFE
is your
ending
,
one
minute
- Chuck Palahniuk
ata
time.
No one
who
never
triesever
does.
FM Kloran
Misteakes
i s t ak e s
M
are
OPPORTUNITIEs
to learn.

We
choose to [do this ],
NOT
because it is
but
easy,
because
JFK
it is hard.
Never
Never
Never
give up!
Winston Churchill
Fortune
Favors
publius terence
brave!
the
 hu
and all may do what has by man been done.
ity

Edward Young
Never tell people
to do something.HOW
Tell them WHAT to do,

and they will surprise you

George S. Patton
with their
INGENUITY.
We are still masters
of our fate.
We are still tainscap
of our souls.
Winston Churchill
our greatest
Gloryis
Rising
but in NOT
in

every ne
ve
r

time we
fa
ll
ing ,

Confucius
fall.
Nothing
will ever
be attempted
if all possible

o b j e c t i o n s
must first be
Samuel Johnson
overcome.
DONT tell me
what I
John Locke
do!
The

ultimate measure
of a man
is not where he stands

at
in moments of
but
comfort,
where he stands
times
of challenge
and
Martin Luther King Jr.
controversy.
Im not in this world to live up to

your expectations
and

youre not in this world to live up

mine
to .

Bruce Lee
 If he is infinitely good,
what reason should we have to fear him?

If he is infinitely wise,
why should we have doubts concerning our future?

If he knows all,
why warn him of our needs
and fatigue him with our prayers?

If he is everywhere,
why erect temples to him?

Percy Bysshe Shelley
 If god is willing to prevent evil, but unable, If god is unwilling to prevent evil, but able,


he is not omnipotent. he is malevolent.

If god is both able and willing to prevent evil, If god is neither able nor willing to prevent evil,


then where does it come from? then why call him god?

Epicurus
 Trust Yourself
Break the Rules
Never be afraid to fail
Dont listen to naysayers
Work your ass off
Give something back

Arnold
 If you want to
win a race,
run a mile.
If you want to experience life,

run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek - 1952 Triple
Olympic Gold Medalist
Lifeis my
race! Etsuko Sato
A democracy
is nothing more
than mob rule,
where
51% of the people
may take away
the rights of

49%
the other

Thomas Jefferson
right now,
someone else
is working hard
chasing
your
Mike Kloran
dream.
The man who
does not read
great
books,
has no advantage
g
over
the man who
Mark Twain
can not
read them.
If you spend
too much time
thinking youll
about never
a thing, get it
Bruce Lee done.
 I d nt
kn w where
Im g ing,
but Im n
my way!
Carl Sagan
We can judge
the heart of man
byhis
treatment
- Immanuel Kant
of animals.
Either
the world
controls you
control
you, or your
world.
What can be asserted
without proof,
can be dismissed
without proof.
Christopher Hitchens
People often say that
motivation doesn t last.
Well, neither does bathing.

that s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar
Better to h a v e a
s ho rt life
t h a t i s full o f w h a t
yo u l i k e d o i n g ,

than a l o n g life
spent in a miserable way.
Al an
W atts
Dont
give up the ship!
i g h t
F s r till h e
he s
inks
James La
wrence
!
abusy
is a life,
wasted
Francis Crick
the way to get started

is to

quit talking
and
begin doing.
walt disney
If I had
asked

people
what they wanted
they would have said
faster horses.
Henry Ford
a
CHAMPION
is someone

gets up
who

even
when

they cant. Jack Dempsey

 focus
discipline
dedication
effort
results


Ill let you be

in my dreams
if I can be
in yours.
Bob Dylan
 do good,
help others,
have fun.