"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench,
than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
~ Robert Hughes
"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've
been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over
and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan, Professional Basketball Player
At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable,
then inevitable.-- Christopher Reeve (1952-) American Actor
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up"
~~Thomas A. Edison~~
If we are facing in the right direction,
all we have to do is keep on walking.
-- Buddhist Proverb
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."- Woody Allen
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and
strong.
Insanity is doing the same thing over & over and
expecting different results! - Albert Einstein
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man
has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men
have some."--Charles Dickens, Novelist
"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere...There is only advancing step by step,
slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals..." --Ben Stein
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or
ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where
they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the
adventure with them.-- Denis Watley
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing
the impossible. Francis of Assisi
"Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed
until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one
should say, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" That is foolish and self-
destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never
comes." David Viscott
"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as
though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the
place and time that the tide will turn." --Harriet Beecher Stowe
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Ray Croc of Mcdonalds fame once said :
Success is being in the right place at the right time
Recognizing that you are there and Taking Action!
