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WINNING AND LOSING
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster manBut soon or late, the man who wins, is the one who thinks he can. - C. W. Longnecker
No deposit, no return: you'll get out of life about what you're willing to put in. All champions have made great sacrifices to win their victories. So when someone talks to me about their goals and dream, I ask them one question: “What are you willing to do about it?” - John Naber
If you practise like a champion, when you get to the big event, you'll be prepared. - Bonnie Blair
A winner never stops trying. - Tom Landry
It's always too soon to quit. - David Tyler Scoates
Victory with honour and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday. - Don Sparks
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the finish line that really counts. - Ralph Boston
Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs up and grabs one! - H. Jackson-Brown, Jr.
When you win, nothing hurts. - Joe Namath
The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Schultz
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Green Ingersoll
What is defeat? Nothing but the first step to something better. - Richard Sheridian There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we know. - Frederick Farrar
WISDOM
It is characteristic of wisdom to not do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - James Russell Lowell
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
Our main business is not to do what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle
Brooding over the past paralyses the present and bankrupts the future. - Anonymous
Today, well-lived, make every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. - Sanskrit Proverb
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. - Leo Kennedy
Better be three hours too soon than one minute too late. - William Shakespeare
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Orlando A. Battista
An absurdity is anything advanced by our own opponents, contrary to our own practise, or above our comprehension. - Horace Smith
If your outflow exceeds your inflow, your upkeep will be your downfall. - R. Anthony
Visits always give pleasure: if not on the arrival then on the departure. - E. Berquier
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. - Plato
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
God doesn't play dice. -Albert Einstein
WORDS
Words are the flour and yeast that make the bread of life. - Alvin Day
Words are very powerful. What we speak and write can inspire or injure, heal or hurt, motivate or manipulate, delight or demean. A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jesamyn West
Thought is private and mysterious, writing is long-lasting and official, but like the bellow of a commander to his troops, the spoken word has life and spirit. It electrifies and ignites souls and hearts to think, to attain, to be. - Alvin Day,
Nasty comments are like the sharp nail you drive into the fence post. Even when you remove the nils by saying sorry, the holes are still there - Guevarrama
WORK
Work is love made visible – Kahlil Gibran
On the day that you think you really hate your job, stop for a momen to think of the man who wishes he could find one – Guevarrama
What is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth; it is to build a house with affection even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house; it is to charge all things you fashion with the breath of your own spirit – Kahlil Gibran
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