051620 quotes

Commitment is an act,

Not a word.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Demand is not about

Fighting against the grain,

Nor is it about force.

Force negates.

Demand is about perfect,

Natural, even super-natural

Alignment with your desire,

Every moment of every day.

- Peggy McColl

The unselfish effort to bring

Cheer to others will be the

Beginning of a happier life

For ourselves.

- Helen Keller

051520 quotes

The harder you work,

The harder it is to surrender.

- Vince Lombardi

Show the world how much you’ll

Fight for the winners circle.

- Pat Riley

Give people the gift of themselves.
Give them the gift of self esteem.
Show them that they are special and important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

051320 quotes

Talent is cheaper than table salt.

What separates the talented individual from the

Successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some people have thousands of reasons why

They cannot do what they want to,

When all they need is one reason why they can.

- Willis R. Whitney

051220 quotes

Believe that things will

Work out as they should,

Providing we do what

We should.

- Coach John Wooden

There are many things that are essential

To arriving at true peace of mind,

And one of the most important is faith,

Which cannot be acquired without prayer.

- Coach John Wooden

In the end, it’s about the teaching,

And what I always loved about

Coaching was the practices.

Not the games, not the tournaments,

Not the alumni stuff.

But teaching the players during practice

Was what coaching was all about to me. 

- Coach John Wooden

051120 Coach Jim Valvano quotes

Take time every day

To laugh, to think, to cry.

- Coach Jim Valvano

When you find that place

Where you’re happy,

Don’t mess with it.

- Coach Jim Valvano

Don’t give up;

Don’t ever give up!

- Coach Jim Valvano

050920 quotes

May thy ball lie in green pastures …  

And not in still waters. 

- Anonymous

What other people may find

In poetry or art museums,

I find in the flight of a good drive. 

- Arnold Palmer

Achievement is largely the

Product of steadily raising

One’s level of aspiration

And expectation.

- Jack Nicklaus

050820 The Sweetest Gift...

The Sweetest Gift

One day a mother went to a prison

To see an erring but precious son

She told the warden how much she loved him

It did not matter what he had done

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon

She brought no silver, no pomp or style

It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light

The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

She left a smile you can remember

She's gone to heaven from heartaches free

Those walls around you could never change her

You were her baby and e'er will be

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon

She brought no silver, no pomp or style

It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light

The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

She did not bring to him a parole or pardon

She brought no silver, no pomp or style

It was a halo bright sent down from heaven's light

The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

The sweetest gift, a mother's smile

- J.B. Coats

050720 quotes

A person needs credit to live,

But cash to die.

- Ben Feldman

The best investment in the world is

The one that pays most when you

Need it most … Life insurance.

- Ben Feldman

Life insurance is simply a partnership…

A person and time.

Each day one trades a day for a dollar.

At the end of a lifetime,

One has exchanged a lifetime for

Property values.

We guarantee the time.

- Ben Feldman

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050620 The Bible Says ...

Children are a gift from the Lord,

A reward from a mother’s womb.

(Psalm 127:3)

Punishment and discipline can make children wise,

But children who are never corrected will bring

Shame to their mother.

(Proverbs 29:15)

The command says,

“You must respect your father and mother.”

This is the first command that has a promise with it.

(Ephesians 6:2)

 

050520 quotes

The superior man blames himself.

The inferior man blames others.

- Coach Don Shula

My responsibility is leadership,

And the minute I get negative,

That is going to have an

Influence on my team.

- Coach Don Shula

Work isn’t working unless

You would rather be doing

Something else.

- Coach Don Shula

 

Then somewhere along the line …

And it couldn’t have been until

Late in the season …

We realized we had a chance to do

Something no one else had done …

To win all the games. That became

Important, but if we had to lose,

We wanted to make sure that it

Wasn’t in the Super Bowl. If we

Ended 16-1, the season would

Have been a failure.

- Coach Don Shula

050420 quotes

No individual can win a game by himself.

- Pelé

Believe it can be done.

When you believe something can be done,

Really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.

Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

- David J. Schwartz

Wanting something is not enough.

You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be

Absolutely compelling in order to overcome the

Obstacles that will invariably come your way.

- Les Brown

050220

A life lived in fear

Is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

Do not throw in the towel;

Use it for wiping the sweat

Off your face.

- Anonymous

Optimism is the faith

That leads to achievement. 

Nothing can be done without

Hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller 

050120 quotes

Coach John Wooden’s 9 Promises to Find Happiness …

1. Promise yourself that you will talk health, 

happiness and prosperity as often as possible.

2. Promise yourself to make all your friends

know there is something in them that is special that you value.

3. Promise to think only of the best, 

to work only for the best and to expect only the best in yourself

and others.

4. Promise to be just as enthusiastic 

about the success of others as you are about your own.

5. Promise yourself to be so strong that 

nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

6. Promise to forget the mistakes of the

past and press on to greater achievements in the future.

7. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance 

at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

8. Promise to give so much time improving yourself

that you have no time to criticize others.

9. Promise to be too large for worry, 

too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to

permit trouble to press on you.

043020 quotes

Success is falling nine times and getting up 10.

- Jon Bon Jovi

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

- Tony Hsieh

I'm a success today because I had a friend

Who believed in me and I didn't have the

Heart to let him down.

- Abraham Lincoln 

042920 quotes

When you focus on the good,

The good gets better.

- Abraham Hicks

Prepare for the unknown by studying

How others in the past have coped with

The unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

- George S. Patton

There is a sense of exhilaration

That comes from facing head-on

The hard truths and saying,

"We will never give up.

We will never capitulate.

It might take a long time,

But we will find a way to prevail.""

- Jim Collins 

042720 quotes

Don’t be called out on strikes,

Go down swinging.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success seems to be

Largely a matter of

Hanging on after others

Have let go.

- William Feather

It’s no use saying,

“We are doing our best.”

You have got to succeed

In doing what

Is necessary.

- Winston Churchill

042420 Pass It On Down ...

"Pass It On Down"

We live in the land of plenty
But many things aren't plenty anymore
Like the water from our sink
They say its not safe to drink
You gotta go and buy it at the store
Now we're told there's a hole in the ozone
Look what's washing on the beach
And Lord, I believe, from the heavens to the seas
We're bringing Mother Nature to her knees

Well there's a change taking place way on the mountains
Acid rain is falling on the leaves
And down in Brazil, the fires are burning still
How we gonna breathe without them trees

There's a place where I live called the Canyon
Where Daddy taught me to swim
And that water, it's so pure
And I'm gonna make sure
Daddy's grandkids can swim there like him

Now we all oughta feel just a little bit guilty
When we look into the eyes of our kids
'Cause brothers it's a fact, if we take and don't put back
They'll have to pay for all we did

So let's leave some blue up above us
Let's leave some green on the ground
It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow
Leave it and pass it on down

Leave it and pass it on down...

Writer(s): Will Robinson, Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, Ronnie Rogers

042320 quotes

I believe desire and will to win,

Is everything.

- Art Williams

What’s the primary difference

Between winners and losers?

The winners do it.

They do it, and do it, and do it,

And do it, until the job gets done.

- Art Williams

If you want to win in these United States,

You got to be tough, and you can't quit.

- Art Williams

042220 quotes

Time is free, but it's priceless.

You can't own it, but you can use it.

You can't keep it, but you can spend it.

Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

- Harvey Mackay

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,

The chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.  
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),

There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of

Which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:

That the moment one definitely commits oneself,

The Providence moves too.
- W. H. Murray

Our happiness depends on the

Habit of mind we cultivate.

So practice happy thinking every day.

Cultivate the merry heart,

Develop the happiness habit,

And life will become a continual feast.

- Norman Vincent Peale

042120 quotes

The best is yet to be.

- James Stowers

One man practicing sportsmanship

Is far better than fifty preaching it.

- Knute Rockne

Do not give up when you still have

Something to give.

Nothing is really over until the

Moment you stop trying.

- Anonymous