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Top 25 Diana Nyad Quotes (2025 Update)

Diana Nyad Quote: “You’re never too old to chase your dream.”

1. “You’re never too old to chase your dream.”

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Diana Nyad Quote: “When you achieve your Dreams It’s not so much what you get, It’s who you become.”

2. “When you achieve your Dreams It’s not so much what you get, It’s who you become.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “The mantra I used was ‘find a way.’”

3. “The mantra I used was ‘find a way.’”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Never ever give up. You’re never too old to chase your dreams. And even if something looks like a solitary sport, it’s a team effort. Words to live by!”

4. “Never ever give up. You’re never too old to chase your dreams. And even if something looks like a solitary sport, it’s a team effort. Words to live by!”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.”

5. “I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.”

6. “I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “When you reach for the horizon, as I’ve proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.”

7. “When you reach for the horizon, as I’ve proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it’s up to all of us to find our way back to the light.”

8. “Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it’s up to all of us to find our way back to the light.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

9. “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Diana Nyad Quote: “This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”

10. “This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”

11. “I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us.”

12. “The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Whatever your Other Shore is, whatever you must do, whatever inspires you, you will find a way to get there.”

13. “Whatever your Other Shore is, whatever you must do, whatever inspires you, you will find a way to get there.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you’ll never make it.”

14. “If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you’ll never make it.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.”

15. “Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”

16. “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life.”

17. “The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn’t matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you’re exhausted every night and you say, ‘Whoa, I just couldn’t have done any more with that day.’”

18. “If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn’t matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you’re exhausted every night and you say, ‘Whoa, I just couldn’t have done any more with that day.’”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.”

19. “Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.”

20. “I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.”

21. “That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “But for each of us, isn’t life about determining your own finish line?”

22. “But for each of us, isn’t life about determining your own finish line?”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I’ve been living out loud the Henry David Thoreau saying: “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” The quest of the Cuba.”

23. “I’ve been living out loud the Henry David Thoreau saying: “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” The quest of the Cuba.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction.”

24. “I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don’t want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.”

25. “My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don’t want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “Close your eyes, close your fists, and say, ‘I couldn’t have done it a fingernail faster.’ If you can say it, and mean it, I guarantee you it will be all right, no matter what happens. No regrets.”

26. “Close your eyes, close your fists, and say, ‘I couldn’t have done it a fingernail faster.’ If you can say it, and mean it, I guarantee you it will be all right, no matter what happens. No regrets.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.”

27. “From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete’s been doing by how her body is carved.”

28. “I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete’s been doing by how her body is carved.”

Diana Nyad Quote: “I am not defined by transient fame, or by childhood sexual abuse, or by world records. I don’t wake up each morning a woman, a senior citizen, a lesbian, a Democrat, a human rights advocate, an atheist, a pacifist, an animal lover, an environmentalist. I may be all of these things, although above all I’m just a person who cherishes a bold journey. A person who refuses to let this one wild and precious life slip quietly by.”

29. “I am not defined by transient fame, or by childhood sexual abuse, or by world records. I don’t wake up each morning a woman, a senior citizen, a lesbian, a Democrat, a human rights advocate, an atheist, a pacifist, an animal lover, an environmentalist. I may be all of these things, although above all I’m just a person who cherishes a bold journey. A person who refuses to let this one wild and precious life slip quietly by.”

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