Success
"Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle." -- Marcus Aurelius (121 AD -180 AD)
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Nothing is Impossible
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
-- Alexander the Great (356 BC to 323 BC)
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The Procession to Victory
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Set Goals High
"Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best."
- Robert Browning
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The Greatest
"He makes no excuses; he shows no fear
He just closes his eyes, and listens to the cheers."
--- taken from The Greatest
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Aim High
"Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
- --F. Hawes
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Perseverance
"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."
---Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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Destiny is Yours
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
--William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925
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Do the Next Right Thing
"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
- -- Thomas Jefferson
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Pursuing Your Dreams
"If you don't set goals, you're not going to have dreams, either. The goals are the achievements along the way to get you to your dreams. Dreams don't just happen, and you're not going to make your pursuit easier by being lazy about it. The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want to do something so badly that your passion shows in your actions."
--Derek Jeter
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You Gotta Believe
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
- -- Nicholas Murray Butler
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Take Your Fate into Your Own Hands
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this 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
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Profit from Mistakes
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself."
- -- Wang Yang-Ming
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Glory
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
- -- Vince Lombardi
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If You Want It
"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
- Abraham Lincoln
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Always Rise Again
"The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall."
- Confucius
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Greatness
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
- John Steinbeck
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Luck
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
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Courage Must 'Coach' Our Ambition
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman
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The Difference
"No matter how good you are you are going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you are going to win one-third of your games. It is what you do with the other third that makes the difference."
--Tommy Lasorda
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Forget the Past
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
- William Durant, founder of General Motors
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Quote of the Day
"Stats are a joke. Box scores are irrelevant. Looking at them doesn't tell me anything—not one thing. All that matters is if we win or lose."-- Nomar Garciaparra
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What Lies in You?
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-- William Morrow
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Benefits
"It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive athletics.
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Excellence
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- -- Aristotle
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Decisions
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing"
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America
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Chinese Proverb
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
- -- Chinese proverb
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Effort
"Success is dependent on effort."
-- Sophocles
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Trust
"When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb."
-- Patanjali (Indian philosopher 200 BC)
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Leaders
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
-- Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997)
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Youth is No Barrier
"The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
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Conquer
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
-- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)
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Attack
"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more."
-- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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Don't Interrupt
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Look for your Chance
"One chance is all you need."
-- Jesse Owens (1913 - 1980)
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A Promise for You
"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."
- -- Thomas Wolfe
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Success
"Success is the child of audacity."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman (1804-1881)
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Conquer Your Timidity
"All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood."
- General George Patton Jr, "War as I knew it" 1947
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Think For Yourself
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
- General George Patton Jr
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Leading
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
- General George Patton Jr
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Courage
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
- General George Patton Jr
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Pressure
"Pressure makes diamonds."
- General George Patton Jr
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Self Confidence
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."
- William Jennings Bryan
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Focus on You
"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."
- William J. H. Boetcker
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Your Best
"If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else."
- William Feather
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Do It!
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
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Do What Is Necessary
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-- Winston Churchill
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Aim Above Your Target
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Root is In Your Will
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
-- Harold Taylor
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Fear Not Greatness
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare
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Measure Ourselves
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Give Up?
"Never give up. You want the story of this game? Never, never, never give up."
-- Luther Head, Illini guard
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Patience
"Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other."
-- John Christian Morgenstern
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Make the Most of Yourself
"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world; making the most of one's best."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Focus
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intellegent planning and focused effort."
-- Paul J. Myer
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You Are Blessed
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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