"24 Uplifting Quotes About Handling Life"
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
Anne Frank --- Submitted by Jackie K., Age 14 --- Georgia
"When work, commitment and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible."
Nancy Coey
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."
William Bennett
"You can only become truly ACCOMPLISHED at something you LOVE. Don't make MONEY your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them SO WELL that people can't take their eyes off of YOU."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Matt Hemberger --- Ohio
"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
Henry J. Kaiser
"You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You feel you can win."
Sugar Ray Leonard
"When a crowd applauds at a performance, it signifies two things. One, the achievement of a goal, and two, the beginning of a new journey."
Robert Westerberg --- Submitted by Holli C., Age 15 --- Maine
"When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winner's circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor."
Pat Riley
"Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers."
Merlin Olsen
"Don't settle for being good, when you dream of being great."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Caroline D., Age 16 --- Texas
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Alan Cohen
"Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.' To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end."
Blaine Lee
"Success is an inspiration; failure is an experience."
Copyright © 2003 Srikanth Kavirayani
"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."
Orison Swett Marden
"I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club."
Red Auerbach
"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan --- Submitted by Casey E. Faucon --- Louisiana
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
Harold Taylor
"No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you."
Althea Gibson
WHATEVER IT TAKES...
"Whatever it takes, make the sacrifice. Whatever it makes, enjoy the benefit. Whatever it takes, make the effort. Whatever it makes, enjoy the reward. Whatever it takes, pay the price. Whatever it makes, relish the accomplishment."
Copyright © 2003 Ed Devine
"There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes."
Victor Marie Hugo
" A great manager has a knack for making ball players think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how really good you are, you never settle for playing anything less than your best."
Reggie Jackson
"Down the road of life, you can either see obstacles coming and run the other way, or you can take these obstacles as they come, fight your way through them, and be stronger because of them."
Written in 2003 by S.S. --- Alabama
"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."
Orison Swett Marden
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have to run away."
Dag Hammarksjold