"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body; but rather to skid in sideways, body totally worn out, and shouting 'Holy Crap, what a ride!'"
-- unknown

"We're not hurt so much by what happens to us as by our opinion of what happens to us. You can't control what happens to you, but with God's help you can control what happens in you."
-- Bob Gass

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
-- Hugh White

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-- Joseph Campbell

"What you think of me is none of my business."
-- unknown

"When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, And are about to step off into the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
-- unknown

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-- unknown

"In three words I can summarize everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-- Robert Frost

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and is willing to sing it back to you, when you have forgotten the words."
-- unknown

"Discipline is remembering what you want most, over what you want now."
-- unknown

"God doesn't get rid of all the drama in our lives. He just gets rid of the cheap drama. There is no higher drama than true personal growth. Nothing could be more genuinely dramatic than boys becoming real men and girls becoming real women."
-- Marianne Williamson

"Focus has a way of overcoming anxiety."
-- General Tommy Franks

"Man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies on the field of battle - Victorious."
-- Vince Lombardi

"The moment of Victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
-- Martina Navatralova

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."
-- Cyrus H. Curtis

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-- John Wooden

"A quality decision is:
A decision from which there is no retreat, and about which there is no argument."
-- Kenneth Copeland

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anais Nin

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
-- William Shedd

"He that will not sail 'til all dangers are over must never be put to sea."
-- T. Fuller

"There are risks & cost to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
-- Winston Churchill

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Truth is Truth, regardless of disbelief, lack of understanding, or ignorance."
-- W. Clement Stone

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
-- Raymond Lindquist

"The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
-- Chamfort

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read."
-- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-- MarkTwain

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
--Col. David Hackworth

"Pain nourishes courage; you can't be brave if you have only wonderful things happen to you."
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Entrenched belief is never altered by the facts.

The difference between what you "believe" and what you "know" is:
You act on what you believe. You have a potential to forget what you know. If you are always acting on something, you won't forget it.

Leadership is action, not a position.

A dog in the hunt, don't know he's got fleas.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

Never expect a 16"x20" idea from a 3"x5" mind.

The more you practice, the luckier you get.

In every adversity are the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.

Consider nothing as impossible before it has come to pass.

No one has a choice of whether or not he lives by words. He does have a choice of WHAT words he lives by.

People don't care how much you know, 'til they know how much you care.

Do you sing because you're happy, or are you happy because you sing?

If you're not willing to pay the price for success, you WILL pay the price for failure.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when you mouth is moving.

We cannot change the direction of the wind...but we can adjust our sails.