062912 quotes

Live out of your imagination,  not your history.
-  Stephen Covey

We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives.
-  Dan Zadra

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

-  Napoleon Hill 

062012 quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

-  Marcus Aurelius

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,  And is never the result of selfishness.

-  Napoleon Hill

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

-  Wayne Dyer

Father's Day 061712

A wise son heeds his father's instruction,

But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:1

A fool despises his father's instruction,

But he who receives correction is prudent.

Proverbs 15:5

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath,

but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

061612 quotes

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors; set today's rhythm with your heart-drum; walk today's march with courage; create today as your celebration of life.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-  H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people
to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the
roads weren't paved.
-  Will Rogers

 

061412 quotes

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
-  B.J. Marshall
 

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

-  Neale Donald Walsch

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose  … somehow we win out.

-  Ronald Reagan

060412 quotes

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence.

-  Richard DeVos

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

-  Thomas Jefferson

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

-  Jim Rohn

060312 quotes

When you find that place where you’re happy, don’t mess with it.

-  Coach Jim Valvano

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, But rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

-  Hugh Downs 

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, Is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

-  Dale Carnegie

060212 quotes

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

-  Ted Williams

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be
understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

-  Ralph Nichols

Profanity is a sign of inadequate vocabulary or unsound judgment … or both.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

060112 quotes

Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

-  Helen Keller

You must find the place inside yourself  where nothing is impossible.

-  Deepak Chopra

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there.  Then make a start from where you now stand.

-  Napoleon Hill

052212 quotes

Everything depends upon execution;  having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

I CAN...
Two powerful words that inspire our confidence...  Serve as a testament to our determination to succeed...  And reflect a desire to be our very best.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness is the feeling of joy and excitement you get when you have hope, and move with positive expectation toward that positive dream, expectation, or goal.

Joseph McClendon III

050312 quotes

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

Self-esteem is the immune system of the mind and of the spirit.

Lee Pulos

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:

Act as if it were impossible to fail.That is the talisman, the formula, The command of right-about-face which Turns us from failure towards success.

Dorothea Brande

041812 quotes

You know why we won the (2012) national title? … We have the best players and we have the best team.

-  Coach John Calipari

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.

-  William Mather Lewis
 

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, You will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude,

A feeling that nurtures the soul.

-  Harold Kushner

0411 12 quotes

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, For this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down,  But the staying down.

Mary Pickford 

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;  But great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

040112 quotes

Success is neither magical nor mysterious.

Success is the natural consequence of

Consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

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

If you go to work on your goals,

Your goals will go to work on you.

If you go to work on your plan,

Your plan will go to work on you.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

032512 quotes

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

-   Zig Ziglar

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win.

You have to feel you can win.

-  Sugar Ray Leonard

 

Anyone can support a team that is winning … it takes no courage.  But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

-  Bart Starr

032312 quotes

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.  Don't listen to them. The only one who can make

You give up is yourself.
-  Sidney Sheldon

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, To make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
 -  E.E. Cummings

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

 -  Harrison Ford

I’m a little bit of a perfectionist.  I want them to dominate people,

It may not be fair, but that’s how I view these guys …  Trying to get them to that next level, trying to make sure that they understand you’re

Going to have to outwork the other teams.

-  Coach John Calipari

 
 

032312 quotes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-  Malcolm S. Forbes

Be not afraid of greatness:  some are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-  William Shakespeare

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
-  Howard Cosell

031612 quotes

First master the fundamentals.
-  Larry Bird

If you think small things don't matter,  think of the last game you lost by one point.
-  Anonymous

The idea is not to block every shot.  The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
-  Bill Russell

031512 quotes

We work to become, Not to acquire.

-   Elbert Hubbard

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

-  Henry Ford

If you care enough for a result, You will most certainly attain it.

-  William James

T – ogether

E – veryone

A –commplishes

M - ore

031112 quotes

Everybody’s got to zero-in and focus on what we’ve got to do.

-  Coach John Calipari

Maybe now everybody realizes we’re not invincible, We’re like everybody else out there. We’re going to have to execute, Play hard and with some aggressiveness and intensity or we will get beat.

-  Coach John Calipari

Speaking of 1996, this is an exact script of what that National Championship team did… One non-conference loss early in the season. An undefeated run in the SEC. Entered the conference tournament and lost to an underdog in the Championship game, in New Orleans as the No. 1 team. You know the rest of the story.

Want to know something else? The last time Vanderbilt won the SEC Championship was in 1951. They beat a one-loss Kentucky team. You know what else Kentucky did in 1951? Won the National Championship.

It’s destiny.

-  Stuart Hammer