081813 quotes

Whatever you hold in your consciousness you will manifest in your life.

-  Mike Brooks

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

-  John Eliot

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

-  Booker T. Washington

081713 quotes

All top performers expect that they are going to succeed, and because of this they consistently take the actions that lead them to achieve their goals and become successful.

-  Mike Brooks

You're in a position here where we have a lot of players that really haven't lost much, (Alabama is 49-5 over the past four seasons) they have to really want to be good for the sake of being good.

-  Coach Nick Saban

Most other teams are out there saying we've got something to prove, well, this team has something to prove. It's a lot more difficult not to be a little bit complacent, not to keep the same accountability to being successful that's necessary. You've got to challenge yourself every day. You've got to challenge each other.

 -  Coach Nick Saban

081613 quotes

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

-  Henry Ford

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

-  Mary Lou Retton 

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a
trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with
the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
-  J.N. Fadenburg

081413 quotes

No one can keep you down but yourself.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

-  Jim Rohn

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid.  Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

-  Nadia Comaneci 

081313 quotes

Don’t be discouraged.  It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. 

-  Anonymous

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
-  Gilbert K. Chesterton

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
-  Henry Doherty

081113 quotes

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

-  Kathrine Switzer

I expect to be great.  I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to promote change.

-  Deion Sanders

The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitudes.

-  William James

 

081013 quotes

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-  Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
-  Andrew Carnegie

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...  accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us is critical to happiness. Yet without a goal and commitment, life loses much of its value. The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat and ready to play again.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

080713 quotes

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

-  Wayne Dyer

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

-  Abraham Lincoln

Confidence sells … people believe in those who believe in themselves.

No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there.  Stop wondering if you're good enough. 

Know you are, and start acting like it.

-  Simon Black

 

080513 quotes

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.
-  Bruce Lee  

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

-  Virginia Burden Tower

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-  Vince Lombardi  

080413 quotes

Success in this game depends less on strength of body
than strength of mind and character.
-  Arnold Palmer

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

-  Norman Vincent Peale

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.  As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

-  Knute Rockne

 

080313 quotes

A goal is a dream that has an ending.
-  Duke Ellington

It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.
-  Anonymous
 

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.
-  Peter Jacobsen

073013 quotes

We tend to live up to our expectations.

-  Earl Nightingale

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

-  George Halas

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

-  Marilyn Ferguson

072913 quotes

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

-  Henry Ward Beecher

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile.

A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

-  Richard M. DeVos

Failure is a blessing when it pushes us out of a cushioned seat of self-satisfaction and forces us to do something useful.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

072813 quotes

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If only our tongues were made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.

-  Anonymous

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-  Albert Einstein

Boston - More Than a Feeling

072713 quotes

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
-  Roger Miller

You must get busy doing something about going the extra mile.

 -  Napoleon Hill Foundation

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

-  Arthur C. Clarke

072513 quotes

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

-   Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you forgive, you in no way change the past … but you sure do change the future.

-  Bernard Meltzer

It’s not what you do once in a while; it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

-  Jenny Craig

072413 quotes

Don’t try to be different, own the fact you already are.

-  Jonathan Fields

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.  It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

-  William Jennings Bryan

072213 quotes

If you don’t believe it yourself, don’t ask anyone else to do so.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
-  Forrest Gump

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

-  George Edward Woodberry

072013 quotes

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

-  James Dean

You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.

-  Robin Sharma

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

-  Dale Carnegie