Quotes for the day

[anhaney]

PATIENCE

"Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit." -- Charles Swindoll

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." -- William Shakespeare

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." -- Jim Rohn

"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error." -- Jean Baptiste Moliere

[anhaney]

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
-- Sicilian Proverb

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
-- Walker Percy

[Dan and Christy]

We don't have time to waste time.
--One of my Superintendents

[anhaney]

STAY HUMBLE/GIVE RESPECT

Respect your opponent.

Never get full of yourself, or you may get ambushed.

Don't ever think you have arrived. Don't be intimidated, but do give respect to your opponent.

You have to pay your dues and prove yourself before being promoted.

Be the perfect gentleman off the field and the ultimate competitor on the field.

Be grateful for what you have and for the support of those around you.

*These quotes are excerpted from Todd Dodge Lessons from Sports Excerpt booklet.

[chadster2]

Stupid is as stupid does F. Gump

[anhaney]

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-- Chinese Proverb

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Walter Elliott

[anhaney]

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

"Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-to-myself project." -- Denis Waitley

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy." --Jim Rohn

"A character is a completely fashioned will." -- Novalis

[anhaney]

IMAGINATION

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

[anhaney]

OUR SUPERVISOR recently made a casual comment about my shaggy mane. He then went on to extol the virtues of a good haircut, which, he insisted, makes an elderly man look younger, and a younger man seem more mature. "How would a haircut make a middle-aged man like me appear?" I asked, trying to stump him. "Still employed," he answered.

--Contributed to "All in a Day's Work"

[anhaney]

CHARITY


Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
Philosopher and mystic


The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

John R. W. Stott
Cleric and writer

[anhaney]

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish." -- Brian Tracy

"Make education a continuing, never-ending process." -- Nido Qubein

"No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you'll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road." --Tom Hopkins

"You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are!" -- Les Brown

[eks]

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
- F.W. Faber

[anhaney]

“Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.”

James E. Faust

[chpthril]

If you cant dazzle them with brilliance........baffle them with bull****

[eks]

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Donald R. Gannon