012812 quotes

I am only one; But still I am one. I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-  Helen Keller

It's not in the doing, It’s in the being. Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime, your greatest contribution to current and future generations
will be the happiness and joy you generated and radiated to those around you.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.
-  Irish Blessing

012712 quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.
-  Ernest Hemingway

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy
working in the present toward the future.

-  Denis Waitley

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, You will be successful.
-  Albert Schweitzer

012412 quotes

Once you’re a part of it, You’re UK until you die.

-  John Wall

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

-   Abraham Lincoln

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them.

-   Denis Waitley

012212 quotes

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.

Anonymous

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.

From a headstone in Ireland

I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

012112 quotes

Believe you can … and then make it happen.

-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

-  Mark Twain

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
-  George Washington Carver

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011412 quotes

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne

To lead a great life: Dream, Take Action, and Repeat.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you are is God's gift to you: what you become is your gift to God.
-  Anthony Dalla Villa

011212 quotes

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. -  Charlie Finley

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. -  Leon J. Sue 

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target.

To improve your aim - improve yourself. -  Gilbert Arland

Coach Saban quotes 010812

I don't think there are really any words to describe how proud I am of our players ...  I think we have a great football team, a great bunch of young men who have done a wonderful job and they have played some really dominant football on both sides of the ball.

-  Coach Nick Saban

It was a little bit special yesterday at practice for me, because this group has been - from the time we played Michigan State in the [Capital One] Bowl game last year and made a commitment to do the right things, do things in the right way, and I've been very pleased and proud.

And you always have a good association with a team that makes those kinds of commitments and tries to do the right stuff. And that's one of the things that we've been most proud of in terms of earning the right to have an opportunity to play in a championship game.

-  Coach Nick Saban

My message to the team is going to be to focus on everything that they need to do to play their best football. That's the goal. That's the objective. And I think to reassure players now at this point -- everybody's going to want to win the game when the game comes. To reassure them of the things that they need to do to be able to stay focused so they can execute, play with great effort, be a relentless competitor, and stay in that place of who they are so that they have the best chance to play their best game is really what we're focused on right now.

-  Coach Nick Saban

010712 quotes

Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

Make your important choices in life based on your values and your long-term objectives rather than on a need for approval.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

010612 quotes

I don't want ordinary people, I want people who are willing to sacrifice and do without a lot of those things ordinary students get to do.

That's what it takes to win. -  Coach Paul Bear Bryant

He was simply the best there ever was. - Coach Bob Devaney, Nebraska

He wasn't just a coach, He was the coach. - Coach John McKay, USC

In many ways, American sports embody the best in our national character … dedication, teamwork, honor and friendship.  Paul "Bear" Bryant embodied football. The winner of more games than any other coach in history, Bear Bryant was a true American hero. A hard but beloved taskmaster he pushed ordinary people to perform extraordinary feats.

Patriotic to the core, devoted to his players and inspired by a winning spirit that never quit, Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a legend.

In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we all strive to be. 

- Ronald Reagan's remarks when awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Coach Paul Bear Bryant, February 23, 1983.

010412 quotes

I don't think there's such a thing as failure. To me, failure is just a necessary step to achieve a goal. - Phil Keoghan

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you.

The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

-  Napoleon Hill

010212 quotes

If we take care of the moments. The years will take care of themselves.

-  Maria Edgeworth

If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got. -  High-tech proverb  

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.I can choose which it shall be.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. -  Groucho Marx

010112 quotes

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, Is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. -  Earl Nightingale

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that. -  Earl Nightingale

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. -  Earl Nightingale

122911 quotes

Never stop until your good becomes better, And your better becomes the best. -  Frank Zappa

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -  Theodore Roosevelt

 You can’t hide here, This is Kentucky. There isn’t a rock big enough, no cracks big enough. You’re out there, and either you’re going to perform or you’re not, And there is no excuse why you’re not. Like I said, we’ve got a ways to go. -  Coach John Calipari

122611 quotes

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between.
-  Pat Riley

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
-  Babe Ruth

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

CHRISTMAS QUOTES 112411

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. - Thomas Tusser

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. - Freya Stark

Christmas, my child, is love in action.  Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. - Dale Evans

 

122311 quotes

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

-  William James

 

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

-  Jim Rohn

 

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
-  Eliza Dushku

 

122111 quotes

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. -  Albert Einstein

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed.

-  Jim Rohn

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career
must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career. -  Earl Nightingale

122011 quotes

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. -  Robin Sharma

 

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -  Anna Quindlen

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve

121811 quotes

It's not the will to win that matters ...  everyone has that.

It's the will to prepare to win that matters. - Paul Bryant

I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves,

You don't need a lot of talent. -  Paul Bryant

My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.
-  Paul Bryant

121711 quotes

At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives. - Werner Erhard

But try, you urge, the trying shall suffice;The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
-  Robert Browning

Each person has this magical thing called Soul Purpose within them.

The difference between surviving and thriving has to do with whether we see it or not. -  Garrett Gunderson

121511 quotes

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. -  Albert Clarke

121311 quotes

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

-  Pat Riley

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

-  Pat Riley

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

-  Stephen Covey 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-  Booker T. Washington

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them. -  Tony Robbins

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. 

- Georgette Mosbacher

120711 quotes

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 

-  Henry Ford

Paths clear before those who know where they going and are determined to get there. -  Leonard Roy Frank

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

-  Robert Heinlein

112711 quotes

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people

happy. - Samuel Goldwyn 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done

without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings
have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic
expectations, patience, and perseverance. - John C. Bogle

112511 quotes

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. - Deepak Chopra

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. - Vince Lombardi

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy

112411 quotes

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates

A vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. - Oprah Winfrey

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies, for all God's creatures - large and small, for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost, for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise.

Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. - Psalm 100:4

GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA

112211 quotes

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

John F. Kennedy

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, and inventor

And a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than The long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

The world is very different now . . . and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbearers fought are still at issue around the globe …  the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril; Learning without liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; That is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

For in the final analysis, Our most basic common link, Is that we all inhabit this small planet, We all breathe the same air, We all cherish our children’s futures, And we are all mortal.

John F.  Kennedy

Continuous effort … not strength or intelligence … is the key to unlocking our potential. - Sir Winston Churchill 

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you. - Oscar Wilde

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised;

As lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

-  Arthur Schopenhauer