"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth."
Brian Tracy: Quotes about Truth
"Truthfulness is the main element
of character."
Brian Tracy
"The potential of the average person
is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good."
Walt Disney
"All our dreams can come true, if
we have the courage to pursue them."
J. K. Rowling
"It matters not what a person is born, but whom
they choose to be."
Loretta Staples
"If you are clear about what you want, the world
responds with clarity."
Vince Lombardi
"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."
Brenda
Ueland
"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning
of time, you are incomparable."
Milton Berle
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
Vince Lombardi
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Alan Cohen
"To grow, you must be willing to
let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is
not your destiny."
Derek Jeter
"The longer you wait to decide what you want
to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so
badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not
your words, will do the shouting for you."
Napolean Hill
"Action
is the real measure of intelligence."
Walt
Disney
"The way to get started is to quit talking and
begin doing."
Gandhi
"The best way to find yourself is
to lose yourself in the service of others."
Harvey Fierstein
"Accept no one's definition of your
life, but define yourself."
Barbara Stanny
"Each of us was born with wings...(and) has the
ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond
our wildest imaginings."
Ann Landers
"The naked truth is always better than the
best dressed lie."
Robert Brault
“Enjoy the little things, for one
day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.”
Unknown
"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow's
a mystery. Today is a gift; that's
why they call it "the present".
Gandhi
"The moment there is suspicion about a person's
motives, everything he does becomes tainted."
Les
Brown
"Help others achieve their dreams and you will
achieve yours."
Gandhi
"We must be the change we wish to
see."
Mark Twain
"Do the right thing -- it will gratify some people
and astonish the rest."
Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you
think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Albert Einstein:
"Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value."
Barbara DeAngelis
"Love is a force more formidable
than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is
powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than
any material possession could."
Andy Warhol
"They say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself."
Jonathan Winters
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim
out to it!"
Vince Lombardi
"There's only one way to succeed
in anything, and that is to give it everything."
Arab proverb
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat
an army of lions led by a sheep."
David Viscott
"If you have the courage to begin,
you have the courage to succeed."
Hugh White
"When you make a mistake, don't look
back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The
future is yet in your power."
William Shakespeare: Integrity Quotations
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
Oprah Winfrey
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the
limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the
limo breaks down."
Greg Werner
"The only things in your control
are your thoughts and then your actions. Positive, powerful thoughts lead
to positive, powerful actions, and when done with repeated consistency this
cycle leads to greatness. Dream it! Pray for it! Believe it! Work for it!
and then be ready when it happens!"
Shantelle!
"Live life like my favorite shade of Maybelline
Waterproof
Eyeliner..."UNSTOPPABLE!"
John Assaraf
"I just do not hang around anybody that I don't
want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay
positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want
to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you...and [are] having a
fun time."
Vince Lombardi
"Leadership is based on a spiritual quality;
the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow."
John Maxwell
"Your attitude determines your altitude."
Lewis Grizzard
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery
never changes."
John Quincy Adams
"If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader."
Warren Bennis
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision
into reality."
Doug Firebaugh
"Leadership is simply an energy that mobilizes
people and moves them."
Zig Ziglar
"What you get by achieving your goals is not
as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Jim Rohn
"Time is more value than money. You can get more
money, but you cannot get more time."
Maya Angelou
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you
do, and liking how you do it."
Bill Bradley
"Leadership is not something that is done to
people, like fixing
your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become
better."
Jack Welch
"If there is anything I would like to be remembered
for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow
and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them."
Sam Walton
"Outstanding leaders go out of the
way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
Ted Turner
"A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm."
Warren G. Bennis
"To become a leader, then, you must become
yourself, become the maker of your own life."
Les Brown
"When life knocks you down, try to land on your
back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you
back up."
Ernest Hemingway
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Sir Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is power."
Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction
of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
John B. Gough
"If you want to succeed, you must make your own
opportunities as you go."
Bobby Knight
"Most people have the will to win, few have the
will to prepare to win."
Princess Diana
"Only do what your heart tells you."
Loretta Staples
"If you are clear about what you want, the world
responds with clarity."
Allophones Karr
“Some people are always grumbling because roses
have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness
than what he
has, or how he is regarded by others."
Katharine Hepburn
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."
Jackson Pollock
"Every good painter paints what he is."
Tony Robbins
"The past doesn't equal the future.
All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,
know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,
even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available."
Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit."
German Proverb
"When you walk your talk, people listen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs
of his friends."
Mae West
"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of ACTION."
Carl Bard
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new
start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
Og Mandino
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination
to succeed is strong enough."
William Feather
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."
Sholem Asch: Quotations about Writing
"Writing comes more easily if you have something
to say."
Zig Ziglar: Famous Quotes on Life
"Outstanding people have one thing
in common: an absolute sense of mission."
John Andrew Holmes
"There is no exercise better for the heart than
reaching down and
lifting people up."
Greg Werner
"How far you go in life is largely determined
by how far you lift your expectations for yourself, daily. Expect little
and that's exactly what you will receive. Expect achievement, and have a
burning desire to make it happen, and achievement is what you will earn."
Harold B. Melchart
"Live your life each day as you would climb a
mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind,
but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."
Rich DiGirolamo
"Belief in yourself, belief in your abilities,
will override fear almost every time. The only thing we are afraid of is
what we are capable of accomplishing."
Nelson Mandella
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness that frightens us...And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Greg Anderson
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep
meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing,
then we truly live life."
Saint Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Leo Buscaglia
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest
act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
John W. Gardner
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
Vince Lombardi
"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board
are a dime a dozen. The ones who WIN get inside their player and
motivate."
Dr. Leo Buscaglia
"The easiest thing in the world is to be you.
The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't
let them put you in that position."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action
the fruit behind it."
Zig Ziglar
"Motivating gets you going and habit gets you
there. Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have
more fun on the trip."
Charles Du Bos
"The important thing is this: to be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but
the view is much better at the top."
John D. Rockefeller III
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles:
find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you
find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition
and natural ability you have."
Malcolm Forbes
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open one."
Unknown
"Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow
never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"There is no chance, no destiny,
no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined
soul."
Mary Pickford
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones,
there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the
falling down but the staying down."
Malcolm Forbes
"You can easily judge the character
of others by how they treat those
who can do nothing for them or to them."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“The time is always right to do
what is right.”
John D. Rockefeller III
"The road to happiness lies in two
simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and
put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural
ability you have."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
"Within you now is the power to do
things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just
as soon as you change your beliefs."
Christopher Reeve
"At first dreams seem impossible,
then improbable, then inevitable."
Napoleon Hill
"Do not wait; the time will never
be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you
go along."
Audrey Hepburn
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek
out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the
hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers
through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that
you'll never walk alone."
Liberace
"Nobody will believe in you unless
you believe in yourself."
Bill Bradley
"Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
Chinese Proverb
"The person who says it cannot be
done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"I believe that we are solely responsible
for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word,
and thought throughout our lifetime."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies
before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
Toni Morrison
"Make a difference about something
other than yourselves."
Author Unknown
"Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of
their followers - not their minds."
Pablo Picasso
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
H. G. Wells
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
Maya Angelou
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Helen Keller
"Character cannot be developed in
ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul
be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"There is nothing noble in being
superior to
some other person. The true nobility is in
being superior to your previous self."
Venus Williams-US tennis champion
"Some people say I have attitude
- maybe I do. But I think you have
to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that
makes you a winner right there."
Vince Lombardi
"Perfection is not attainable, but
if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Tom Morris
"Nothing is more endangered in the
modern world than the powerful
combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an
exuberant embrace of the present moment."
Ann Landers
"Class is an aura of confidence that
is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class
never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure
footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."
Margaret Meade: Quotes about Truth
"What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do are entirely different things."
Les Brown: Goal Quotes
"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
David Grayson: Adventure Quotes
"Adventure is not outside man; it
is within."
Zig Ziglar
"You were born to win, but to be
a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Milton Berle
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Estee Lauder
"I didn't get to where I am by thinking about
it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it."
Denis Waitley
"Happiness cannot be traveled to,
owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of
living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
Brian Tracy
"Confidence on the outside begins by
living with integrity on the
inside."
Tom Landry
"A coach is someone who tells you
what you don't want to hear,
who has you see what you don't want to see,
so you can be who you have always known you could be."
Joseph Joubert
" Children need models rather than
critics."
Anatole France
"The first virtue of all really great
men is that they are sincere.
They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts."
William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that
man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
Nora Roberts
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll
never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step
forward, you're always in the same place."
Vince Lombardi
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win
is."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every
obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change
his mind."
Dale Carnegie
"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get."
James Russell Lowell
"Fate loves the fearless."
W. Somerset Maugham
"I don't think of the past. The only
thing that matters is the everlasting present."
Henry David Thoreau: Quotations about Writing
"Write while the heat is in you.
The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which
has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
Bob Richards: Dignity Quotes
"You are what you think. You are
what you go for. You are what you do."
William Wordsworth
"The best portion of a good man's
life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
Thomas Carlyle
"Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is
one less scoundrel in the world."
Thomas Dreier
"The world is a great mirror. It
reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly,
if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful
to you. The world is what you are."
Eric Hoffer: Famous Quotes About Success
"We are told that talent creates
its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates
not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Robert Collier
"The first principle of success is desire - knowing
what you want. Desire is the planting of the seed."
Denis Waitley
"We can't afford to waste tears on
might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us
to what can be."
Brian Tracy
"Act with purpose, courage, confidence,
competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious
mind.
William Joseph Slim
"When you cannot make up your mind which
of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
Mohandas Gandhi
"My life is my message."
Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not something you postpone
for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Joan of Arch
"All battles are first won or lost, in
the mind."
Brian Tracy
"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If
you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
Mark Twain
"Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that,but the really great ones make
you feel that you too, can become great."
Jim Rohn
"Leadership is the challenge to be something
more than average."
James Allen
"The greatest discovery of my generation
is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of
mind."
Samuel Butler
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or
music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Vince Lombardi
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never
falling, but in rising again after you fall."
Nido Qubein
"A decision is made with the brain. A
commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper
and more binding than a decision."
Luke 12:15
"A man's life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he possesseth."
Chinese Wisdom
"Do not fear going forward slowly,
fear only to stand still."
Brian Tracy
"Excellence is not a destination, it is a continuous
journey that never ends."
Henry Ford
"Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret of success."
Vince Lombardi
"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were
all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they
loved one another."
Dr. Suess
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Mark Twain
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can
hear and the blind can see."
Secrets of Effective Leadership
"The best way to gain and hold the loyalty of
your
personnel is to show interest in them and care for
them, by your words and actions, in everything you do."
Honore De Balzac
"To live in the presence of great truths and
eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient
when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises
him."
Georgette Mosbacher
"Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are
always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change,
and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core
of steel."
Michael Pitchard
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old.
You grow old because you stop laughing."
Deepak Chopra
In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness
inside of you."
Jim Rohn
"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily
well."
Martin Luther King
"The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy."
Carl Jung
"Dreams will show you where you are and where
you are going.
They reveal your destiny."
Lee Iacocca
"The discipline of writing something down is
the first step toward making it happen."
Eric Hoffer
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates
not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Ella Fitzgerald
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really
want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go
wrong."
Anonymous
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the
quiet voice at the
end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
Napoleon Hill
"Man, alone, has the power to transform
his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams
come true."
Anthony Robbins
"When you are grateful fear disappears
and abundance appears."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Humor is the sunshine of the mind."
Anonymous
"Hard things are put in our way, not to stop
us, but to call out our
courage and strength."
Thomas A. Edison
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
Mohandas Gandhi
"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will
be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our
hearts."
W. Clement Stone
"There is little difference in people, but that
little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
Shirley Hufstedler
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that
you don't want to grow any more."
Zig Ziglar
"Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered
for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness."
Mohandas Gandhi
"Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal
and not in reaching it."
Henry Drummond
"You will find as you look back upon your life
that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have
done things in a spirit of love."
Kahlil Gibran
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms
or fruit."
Vince Lombardi
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If
you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication,
the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things
in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be
done."
Tony Robbins
"Success is the result of good judgment, good
judgment is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad
judgment."
Brooks Atkinson
"This nation was built by men who took risks;
pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not
afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers
who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn."
Belva Davis
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams
and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
Henry Ford
"If money is your hope for independence you will
never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,experience, and ability."
W. Clement Stone
"Be generous! Give to those you love; give to
those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes,
give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance
for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!"
Nikki Giovanni
"We love because it's the only true adventure."
"WINNERS are too happy to be sad,
too positive to be doubtful,
too optimistic to be fearful and
too determined to be defeated."
Lee Iacocca
"The discipline of writing something down is
the first step toward making it happen."
Vince Lombardi
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees
and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
F. Hawes
"Aim at the sun and you may not reach
it; but your arrow will fly far
higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
Oprah Winfrey
"Living in the moment brings you
a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings."
C. S. Lewis
"We are what we believe we are."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you
do so, you apologize for truth."
Coco Chanel
"Success is often achieved by those
who don't know that failure is inevitable."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is
rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Joseph Joubert
"The aim of an argument or discussion
should not be victory, but
progress."
William Dempster Hoard
"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but
it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with
little and miserable with much."
Charles W. Eliot
"Books are the quietest and most constant of
friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the
most patient of teachers."
Babe Ruth
"It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give
up"
Chuang-tzu
"He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his
self is not a scholar."
Charles Kingsley
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the
chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something
to be enthusiastic about."
J Peterman
"When you take a risk and step out of the norm,
you run the risk and
sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up."
Bo Jackson
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you
get there."
Julia Sorel
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt,
it means you never
take any chances."
West Point Cadet Maxim
"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more
than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect
more than others think is possible. "
Saadi
'O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates
with your enemies.'
Euripides
"The company of just and righteous men is better
than wealth and a rich estate."
James Buckham
"Trials, temptations, disappointments
-- all these are helps instead
of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre
of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation
represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and
weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than
it was before."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"Who you really are is enough."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can
ever make."
Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I - I took the one less traveled
by, And that has made all the difference."
Gelett Burgess
"There is work that is work and there
is play that is play; there is
play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie
happiness."
Thomas A. Kempis
"A life without purpose is a languid,
drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!"
William Mather Lewis
"The abundant life does not come
to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber."
Wang Yang-Ming
"The sages do not consider
that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."
Eddie Rickenbacker
"Courage is doing what you're
afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
Dale Carnegie
"Today is life - the only
life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep
through you. Live today with gusto."
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's
"Many people believe that support
is something that you give to
someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who
would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that's not
the way I see it. Support is the boost you can give someone who can
help himself but who needs a partner to open a window or push aside a
roadblock."
George Bernard Shaw
"People are always blaming their
circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people
who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Vince Lombardi
"Winners never quit and quitters
never win."
James A. Garfield
"If there is one thing upon
this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil."
"OBSTACLES ARE THE STEPPING STONES OF SUCCESS"
by Harvey Mackay
A man was walking in the park one day when he came upon a cocoon
with a small opening. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed
to stop making any progress. It looked like it had gotten as far as it could,
so the man decided to help the butterfly. He used his pocketknife and snipped
the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, but
something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected at any moment
the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which
would contract in time. Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the
rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings.
It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting
cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to emerge was natural.
It was nature's way of forcing fluid from its body into its wings so that
it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom. Sometimes struggles
are exactly what we need in our lives. If we were allowed to go through
life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong
as what we could have been. And we could never fly.
History has shown us that the most celebrated winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused
to become discouraged by their defeats.
My good friend, Lou Holtz, football coach of the University of South Carolina,
once told me, "Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and
I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
Beethoven composed his greatest works after becoming deaf. George Washington
was snowed in through a treacherous winter at Valley Forge. Abraham Lincoln
was raised in poverty. Albert Einstein was called a slow learner, retarded
and uneducable. If Christopher Columbus had turned back, no one could have
blamed him, considering the constant adversity he endured.
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