Quotes to think about

	Thoughts
Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a crowd of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. - *Hebrews 12:1*

	In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.

We must adjust to an ever changing road while holding onto our unchanging principles.

	Do not follow where the path may lead; Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

We do not cease playing because we grow old; we grow old because we cease playing. - *Joseph Lee 1892-1937*

	You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

	The race is not always to the swift...but to those who keep on running.

Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it.

	The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them.

	Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.....every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - *Robert Frost*

	You're either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

	Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.

	Good enough isn't.

That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. *- Friedrich Nietzsche*

	In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. - *Saint-Exupery*

I will love them until they ask why. - *Clint Purvis, Florida State University Football Chaplain on "God's love".*

	I can trace His hand in so many things ... the safest place you can ever be is in God's will. I need to be where He wants me to be." - *Janee Angel, missionary to Africa*

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. - *Walter Cronkite*

	Don't let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do. - *John Wooden*

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

	Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down - *Oprah Winfrey*

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

	Life's too short to be tired!

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, one-directionally, wholeheartedly, without regret or reservation. - *William H. Sheldon*

	Stupid people talk about other people Interesting people talk about things Brilliant people talk about ideas And then make those ideas happen.

If you don't take care of your body...where will you live?

	One can never consent to creep when one feels the impluse to soar. - *Helen Keller*

Many of us are more capable than some of us but none of us is as capable as all of us. - *Ziggy*

	Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success. - *Henry Ford*

It's not the size of the dog in the fight that counts; it's the fight in the dog. - *Vince Lombardi*

	The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - *Vince Lombardi*

Go for broke everytime you go. - *I Am Third, Gale Sayers*

	They can because they think they can. - *Virgil*

Quitters never win, winners never quit.

	It doesn't take guts to play and win, It take guts to lose and still try again.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - *Seneca*

	Now is the hour for the dauntless spirit...now for the stout heart. - *Virgil*

Whatever it takes. - *Pittsburg Steelers*

	Take your body where your mind wants to go. - *seen on an LSU Swim Team T-Shirt*

When months of preparation have only seconds to pay off, failure is not an option. - *LSU Swim team*

	Life is just sudden death overtime...and the clock is running.

Bottom of the ninth, two outs, two strikes, bases loaded, down by three...no pressure.

	Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - *Vince Lombardi*

And, on the front of the Georgia locker room was a sign in school colors of red and black. It said,"Once in a lifetime opportunity. Grab it." - *Florida Times Union Georgia-Florida Game 1980*

	We probably could have played that one forever. - *Florida Gator Chris Faulkner, Georgia-Florida Game 1980*

Everything that I have done has always been predicated on doing the best that I can with the ability that God has given me, trying to reach as far as I possibly can. And if I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther ahead than if I hadn't reached at all. - *Don Shula*

	The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. - *John Madden*

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own. - *Charlie Daniels*

	It's a long road and a little wheel and it takes a lot of turns to get there. - *Charlie Daniels*

Crank it up and go for it! - *Muscular Dystrophy Association 1980*

	Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.

Optimist - one who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tarter sauce with him.

	As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

A moment spent in understanding is worth a lifetime spent in awe.

	Things have not happened to me, it is I that have happened to things.

Education does not show the wise man how much he knows, but how little.

	No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

I once complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

	The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, -no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

He who conquers wrath overcomes his greatest enemy. - *Publius Syrus*

	Better is one's own path though imperfect than the path of another well made.

In The Zone-It's when the beat of the music syncs up with your heart. When your legs are pumping and the only thing that can stop you is the apocalypse. It's where your head has ultimate power over your body.

	Hitch your wagon to a star.

I may not be better than you, but at least I'm different. - *Rosseau*

	He drew a circle that left me out, Heretic, rebel, something to flout. But love and I had the wit to win, We drew a circle that took him in.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - *Aristotle*

	Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Some men see things as they are and ask why; I dream things that have never been and wonder why not. - *The Day The Music Died*

	Greatness in any form reaches beyond itself.

Search out your greatest fear...and look it in the eye.

	The successful ones in any endeavor spend more time taking the bull by the horns than by shooting it.

If you worry about what other people think, it means you have more confidence in their opinions than in your own.

	We can disagree without being disagreeable.

If you can't put out a little something extra at the finish, you don't deserve to win. - *John Baker*

	If you're not participating, be on the sidelines cheering your teammates on. - *John Baker*

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

	Common sense is genius in its working clothes. - *Ralph Waldo Emerson*

It is not doing the thing that we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed. - *Goethe*

	What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. - *James Stephens*

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - *Chinese proverb*

	Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - *Dr. Carl Menninger*

Life is motion...not to move forward is to move backward.

	When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out - It's the grain of sand in your shoe.

	Children need love especially when they don't deserve it.

So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key. - *The Eagles*

	Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, "What's the secret of it?" I shall say simply this: "I get up when I fall down." - *Paul Harvey*

Treat people as though they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being. - *Goethe*

	Perfection is not attainable; but, if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. - *Vince Lombardi*

No one makes you inferior without your permission. - *Eleanor Roosevelt*

	What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - *Oliver Wendell Holmes*

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - *Henry David Thoreau*

	The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - *Vince Lombardi*

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things...I am tempted to think there are no little things. - *Bruce Barton*

	Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - *Goethe*

If not now, then when? If not you, then who?

	Your dreams contain the power to transform mediocrity into magnificence. - *Dawn Stankowski*

Our aspirations are our possibilities. - *Robert Browning*

	Life is short...Play hard. - *Nike*

No, we're never gonna survive, unless we go a little crazy.

	If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

	Challenge what the future holds.

There is no life without passion.

	It will be a great day when schools have all the money they need, and we have to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

My parents still have my fifth grade report card. The one with the teacher's comment that says,"has good insight, but lacks common sense." They keep it framed next to a photo of me skiing off a 70-foot cliff.

	Where you are is not as important as where you are going.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

	The toughest challenges lead to the greatest triumphs.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

	Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Excellence - The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - *Vince Lombardi*

	Commitment to Excellence - Take fast and make it faster, take smart and make it brilliant, Believe that no matter how well you do something, you can always do better, And chances are you will.

Excellence can be attained if you...Care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.

	Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

	Persistence - Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - *Calvin Coolidge*

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

	Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Fear is an illusion.

	There are no shortcuts.

Talent wins games; but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

	The minute you get away from fundamentals, the bottom can fall out.

...you don't have to be on television, coach an NBA team, or play a professional sport to be an effective leader. Just about every home, every business, every neighborhood and every family needs someone to lead.