Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Quotes for September

"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last." Horace

"Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game." George Halas

"He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful." Lao-Tzu

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." John F. Kennedy

"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!" George W. Crane

"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future." Marilyn Ferguson

"Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice." Japanese Proverb

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." John Wooden

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the impossible." Miguel De Cervantes

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. " Albert Einstein

"You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself." Ethan Embry

"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true." Robert J. Ringer

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present." Barbara De Angelis

"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success." Thomas A. Edison

"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act." Charles Caleb Colton

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use." William James

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." Napoleon

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napoleon Hill

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." George S. Patton

"Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation." J. C. Macaulay

"Before you can score you must first have a goal." Proverb

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." Harriet Tubman

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet." Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." Mike Murdock

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." John Ruskin

"Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened." Proverb

"A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things." Chinese Proverb

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless." Chester W. Nimitz

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." John Henry Newman