Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. - Hannah Whitall Smith

You create your opportunities by asking for them. - Patty Hansen(American Author)
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. William A. Ward

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. - Albert Gray

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic)

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer)

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA)

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)


There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA)


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali (1942-, American Boxer)


Success is 99 percent failure. Soichiro Honda (Japanese businessman, founder of Honda Motor Corp.)


My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right. Theodore Hesburgh (American Educator)

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. - Frank Burford
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden (1910-, American Basketball Coach)

If you got the guts to stick it out, you are going to make it. - Brian Hays

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious! Franklyn Broude

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd (American Newspaper Columnist)

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American Physicist)

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William A. Ward

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Jim Rohn
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear. -- Harvey Mackay

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -- Diane Sawyer


Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers. -- Brian Tracy


We should quietly hear both sides. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the most of every opportunity to train, teach and improve your players and team.

Practice under pressure situations and you will perform well when it truly counts.

Never panic. Face adversity with confidence knowing you have prepared.

You have to plan and prepare to guard against distractions.

Physical conditioning in the spring always becomes a determining factor at some point during the fall season.

I know what it feels like to be booed by 80,000 and have a standing ovation by the same 80,000 in the same day. So that is a situation I think the Lord put me in at that part of my life because He knew I was going to be a coach.
He knew I needed that grooming.


There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein

The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world. -- Malcolm Margolin


When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -- Arland Gilbert

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable. -- Margaret Storm Jameson

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. -- Percival

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. -- Bob Richards

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop (620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist)

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. - H. Ross Perot (1930-, American Businessman & Politician)

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that. - Steve Nash

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James (1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author)

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley (1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet)

Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious. - Emory Ward

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist)

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell (1937-, American Army General)

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Malcomb S. Forbes
(1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman)

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. Mildred Mcafee

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor)


One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer, another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.- Proverbs 11:24

Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples? Dottie Walters (American Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author)

Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. - John Andrew Holmes

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Larry Bird (American Basketball Player, Coach)

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the
house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. - Chinese Proverb

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. - Seneca
(BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman)

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90))

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things. - Source Unknown

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -- Abigail Adams

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Indira Gandhi

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.


As you think, so shall you become.


Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. Brian Tracy

I love the man who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grows brave by reaction. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. Stephen Covey

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them. Louis L'Amour

There is a millionaire inside of you...you decide who wins. -- Doug Firebaugh
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

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. -- Harvey Mackay
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -- Eric Hoffer

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. -- Robertson Davies

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. -- Napoleon Hill

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. -- Khalil Gibran

DETERMINATION

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. -- Og Mandino

When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong! -- Picabo Street
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus

If you have an important point to make, don´t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack. -- Winston Churchill
There is no security in life, only opportunity. Denis Waitley


Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. Albert Einstein

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill

The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. -- James A. Ray

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate. -- Dag Hammarskjold

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. -- Mark Victor Hansen

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing. -- Denis Waitley


It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure… you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it. -- Bob Proctor
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. -- John Greenleaf Whittier

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -- Denis Waitley

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were... -- John F. Kennedy

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. Og Mandino

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. Harvey Mackay

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious
dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be, without wishing for what he has not. --- Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher)


To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American Author, Publisher)

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. -- Zig Ziglar

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. -- Christiane Northrup

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say think you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. -- Brian Tracy

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -- Albert Schweitzer


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie

But as I look back at my life, it is easy to see that the times when my wisdom and understanding grew to new levels; those times when I approached becoming the person I long to e; it was always the times that followed negative circumstances. -- Vic Johnson

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -- Karen Kaiser Clark


Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God remembers what we forget, and we remember, unfortunately, what God forgets.


It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.


The three things we need to be dead to: to be dead in Christ, to be dead to sin, and to be dead to what people think.


You cannot pour deep spirituality into a shallow life.

You deny Christ when you fail to deny yourself.

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for. Zig Ziglar


God doesn't ask you to be the best only to do your best.

Good gardening is largely a matter of taking pains mostly in the small of the back.
Learn to harness your handicaps.

There is more to be gained by being first than fast.

There is no defeat except in no longer trying.

To respond is positive, to react is negative. Zig Ziglar

Accept the circumstances, then seek to overcome them.

The best time to hold on is when you reach the place where the average person gives up.

The man who is not strong against anything is usually not strong for anything.

The shadows are behind you if you walk toward the light.

Today is not won by old victories nor lost by old defeats.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. - Zig Ziglar

Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment. -Zig Ziglar

Discouragement is faith in the devil.

Don't be content by being average. Being average means you are as near to the bottom as you are to the top.

If the door to success is marked pull and still won't open, ignore the sign and push.

In most cases, IQ is less important to a person's education than I will.

The wise man doesn't expect to find life worth living; he makes it that way.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them! - Zig Ziglar

Dieting is the triumph of mind over platter.

It is all right to spend money to make character; it is wrong to spend character to make money.


No man's character is better than his word.

Reputation is what people say about you on your tombstone. Character is what God has written about you in His Book.

What you are when you are not trying to be anything is the supreme test of what you really are.

You can no more blame circumstances for your character than the mirror for your appearance.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things that he can afford to let alone.
If you take your problems to the Lord, that is natural. If you give your problems to the Lord, that is spiritual.

Problems cause some to break while others use them to break records.

There is very little blessing or reward in serving the Lord conveniently.
When you're all wrong and willing to admit it, you're all right.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse. Zig Ziglar

Many people aim to do right but are just poor shots.

People who live it up may someday have to live it down.

Salvation is free, but discipleship is costly.

The person who never changes his mind never improves his mistakes either.

The road to success is always under construction.

It will cost you more to say no to God than to say yes.

Learn from the mistakes of others-you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Once it was the fashion to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

To have God's smile will mean the frown of man.

When the going gets easy, you'd better check and see if you are going downhill.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.





If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb




Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. John Wesley (1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism)

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce Chapman (American Author)

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi


You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky (1961-, Canadian Hockey Player)

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napoleon Hill(1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Author, Think and Grow Rich)


The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator)

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. (Lou Holtz) -
so just them to Jesus for He cares for you (added by Feb)


The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. Charlie Tremendous Jones

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is
required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles K. Adams

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

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish Artist)

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the Tao Te Ching


EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.
Rev. John Wellesly (American Minister)


When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. Roger Crawford (American Resiliency Expert, Speaker, Author)

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983,American Author, Philosopher)

The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity. Michael Wickett American Motivational Speaker, Sales Trainer)


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)


Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American Management Consultant, Author)


Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA)


The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger


I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. Charles Swindoll

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)