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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Circumstances don't defeat you …
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody

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I am always doing that, which I cannot do,

In order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

Cry …

Forgive …

Learn …

Move on …

Let your tears water the seeds

Of your future happiness.

- Steve Maraboli

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing …
without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort

And turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

- Stanley Baldwin

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

It’s whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

Most people fail in life not because they

Aim too high and miss, but because they

Aim too low and hit.

- Les Brown

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The worship most acceptable to God

Comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

- Plutarch

God has two dwellings; one in heaven,

And the other in meek and thankful hearts.

- Walton

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke 

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write

The word ‘crisis’. One brush stroke stands for danger;

The other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger …

But recognize the opportunity.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his

Gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that

The tree was slow growing and would not reach

Maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,

‘In that case, there is no time to lose;

Plant it this afternoon.!’

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup

To overthrow the government, it will come from the CIA.

The agency represents a tremendous power and total

Unaccountability to anyone.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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You practice something not until you get it right.

You practice something until you can’t get it wrong.

- Coach Nick Saban

Sportscenter 11/24/16

You have to look at the season it’s almost like

Climbing a mountain. Not everybody reaches the top.

Few people that reach the top can stay on top.

But the thing that everybody realizes that’s on top

Is you got to keep climbing. Those people can never arrive.

You got to keep grinding. That’s what we do during the season.

- Coach Nick Saban

ESPN College Game day 10/22/16

He (Bear Bryant) was a very good fundamental coach.

But what he really did well was create intangibles like

Toughness and discipline and giving great effort and

Executing your job …

What you have to admire most about Coach Bryant is

That he could do it for such a long time at such a high level.

Because people think there is a continuum of success.

There is no continuum of success.

It starts over with every team.

- Coach Nick Saban

Sports Illustrated 1/14/13 

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If you try and fail, make another effort,

And still another, until you succeed.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

If you are worried or afraid of anything,

There is something in your mental attitude

That needs correction.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one,

That no great plan is ever carried out without meeting

And overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try

The skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage,

And the endurance of his faith.

- Donald Douglas

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Doing what you love is the cornerstone

Of having abundance in your life.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet,

Simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy

Reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

- Basil of Caesarea

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Never interrupt someone doing what you

Said couldn't be done.

- Amelia Earhart

Change the changeable,

Accept the unchangeable,

And remove yourself from

The unacceptable.

- Denis Waitley

What's your reputation?
What are you known as?
And what are you known for?

These three elements will determine your fate,

If not your profitability. If not your success.

- Jeffery Gitomer

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You’re never beaten until you admit it.

- George Patton

America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today

Fought hard to preserve our red, white, and blue,

From the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War

Against Terrorism …

- Bill Shuster

This world of ours … must avoid becoming a community

Of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead a proud confederation

Of mutual trust and respect.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Elvis Presley: "America The Beautiful" (1976)

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The will to win is having discipline

With three or four minutes to go.

- Coach John Calipari

The difference between cold calls and referrals …

Cold calls are God’s punishment for not asking for the referral.

- Lisa Harris Miller

Change is the law of life. And those who look only

To the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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A winner never stops trying.

- Coach Tom Landry

Leadership is getting someone to do what they

Don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

- Coach Tom Landry

Setting a goal is not the main thing.

It is deciding how you will go about

Achieving it and staying with that plan.

- Coach Tom Landry

110817 I Am a Life Insurance Policy

I Am a Life Insurance Policy

I am a piece of paper, a drop of ink and a few pennies of premium.

I am a promise to pay.

I help people see visions, dream dreams,

And achieve economic immortality.

I am savings.

I am property that increases in value from year to year.

I lend money when you need it most, with no questions asked.

I pay off mortgages, so that the family can remain together in their own home.

I assure people the daring to live and moral right to die.

I create money where none existed before.

I am the great emancipator from want.

I guarantee the continuity of business.

I conserve the employer’s investment.

I am tangible evidence that a man is a good husband and father, and a woman a good wife and mother.

I am a declaration of financial independence and economic freedom.

I am the difference between an old man or woman and an elderly gentleman or lady.

I provide cash if illness, injury, old age, or death cuts off the breadwinner’s income

I am the only thing that you can buy on the installment plan that your family doesn’t have to finish paying for.

I am protected by laws that prevent creditors from assessing the money I give to your loved ones.

I bring dignity, peace of mind and security to your family.

I supply investment capital that makes the wheels turn

And motors hum.

I guarantee the financial ability to have happy holidays and the laughter of children – even though father or mother is not there.

I am the guardian angel of the home.

I am life insurance.

Revised by Marvin H. Feldman

CLU, ChFC, RFC, President and CEO of the LIFE Foundation

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Choice of attention, to pay attention to this

And ignore that, is to the inner life what

Choice of action is to the outer.

- W. H. Auden

Success is no accident. It is hard work,

Perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice

And most of all, love of what you are doing

Or learning to do.

- Pelé

The highest reward for man’s toil is not

What he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

- John Ruskin

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“I always have a message.  

And I want to get the message to our fans and

I want to get our message to our players.”

- Coach Nick Saban

Willpower is the outgrowth of definiteness of purpose

Expressed through persistent action, 

Based on personal initiative.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Dreams do not come true just because you dream them.

It’s hard work that makes things happen.

It’s hard work that creates change...

Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer.

Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being,

Or maybe you’re paralyzed because you have no idea

What your passion is.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know.

You just have to keep moving forward.

You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next 

Opportunity, staying open to trying something new.

It doesn’t have to fit your vision of the perfect job or

The perfect life.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real.

Just ... do.

- Shonda Rimes

Luke Bryan - Here's To The Farmer

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Darryl Royal

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

- Zig Ziglar

Sustaining an effort is the most important thing for any enterprise.

The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right,

Then do them the same way every time.

Players can't excel in every area, but they can strive to better themselves in the areas that we value most for each individual. 

Then we can show them what they need to do to have their 

Career Best Effort.

Over the length of a season, a correlation always appears between

great effort and great overall numbers.

It may not show from one game to the next, but in the long run 

superior effort is reflected in the win column.

- Pat Riley

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Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.

- Million Dollar Baby

Most people can stay motivated for two or three months.

A few people can stay motivated for two or three years.

But a winner will stay motivated for as long as it takes to win.

- Anonymous

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. 

For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

- Coach Rudy Tom Johnavich

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Balancing the Scales!

Two fellows opened a butcher shop and prospered. 

Then an evangelist came to town,

and one of the butchers was saved.

He tried to persuade his partner to accept salvation

also, but to no avail. “Why wont you, Charlie?”

asked the born again fellow.

“Listen, Lester,” the other butcher said.

“If I get religion, too, who’s going to weigh the meat?”

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