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"In the beginning the dream makes the person, but in the end the person makes the dream." - John Maxwell

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."  -  Chinese Proverb

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.  They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -  Bruce Barton

"You may get
skinned knees
and elbows,
but it's worth it
if you score a
spectacular
goal."

– Mia Hamm

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best.  If you’re not, pretend you are.”   -  Muhammad Ali

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."  ––  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires.  If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve." – Brian Tracy

“Play every game as if your job depends on it.  It just might.” -Casey Stengel

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."  ––  Stephen Covey

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."  – Napoleon Bonaparte

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

-  Benjamin Franklin

"The “if” thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback.  The “how” thinker wastes no energy on postmortems when trouble or even disaster hits him.  He immediately starts looking for the best solution."  –  Norman Vincent Peale

“Don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love, inspiration and hard work. I don’t think you can go wrong.”  –  Ella Fitzgerald

“If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.”  –  John Paul Jones

“If you play to win, as I do, the game never ends.”  –  Stan Mikita

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin with the task anew.”  –  St Francis de Sales

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”  -  Theodore Roosevelt

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”  -  Hank Aaron

“Success is a journey, not only a destination.  The doing is often more important than the outcome.”  -  Arthur Ashe

“Become a possibleitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.”  –  Norman Vincent Peale

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."  -  John Wayne

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.  –  Henry David Thoreau

“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life, I find.”  –  John F. Kennedy

“I am not bound
to win, but I am
bound to be true.

 I am not bound
to succeed,
but I am bound
to live by the light
that I have.”

--  Abraham Lincoln


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