Just Keep Going to Succeed

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

George Allen (1918-1990); American football coach

Get Up!

“No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch.”

                             —Unknown

Work Hard

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ”

Sophia Loren (born 1934); actress

Go for it

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. ”

Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994); Athlete; Olympic Gold Medalist

Preparation

“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

Emmitt Smith (born 1969); American football player

You can change the world

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (1902-1978); cultural anthropologist

Failure is not failing

"When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation."

--Dan Pallotta

Who stops you?

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand (1905-1982); writer, philosopher

Prepare to do the job right

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President

Those who get on

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); playwright, Nobel Prize winner

Being Wrong, is not Wrong

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce (born 1926); American author

Elevate Our Children

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.”

John Adams (1735-1826); 2nd U.S. President

Make Good Habits

“We’re worn into grooves by Time—by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we’ve been second rate or champions, each in his way is dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are the grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness—achievement.”

–Frank B. Gilberth