User:Conservative/Favorite quotes
A few of my favorite quotes
"Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified." - Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (NASB)
"Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them - though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me." - Apostle Paul, the hardest working apostle of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 15: 8-10 (NRSV)
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ― Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière), French playwright, actor, and poet
“You show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.” - John Wooden, American basketball coach
"The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success." - John Maxwell, Author
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.” - Les Brown, Motivational speaker
"They had to reinvent themselves a lot...They had to have a great personal attitude. They were well rounded players that could adapt to a whole new style of play...They're really tough psychologically. They were hard bitten tough people and that could be pulled and at times pushed, but mostly pulled. And understood that great do it again. They had tremendous resiliency. They were tough, tough young people. - Coach Herb Brooks U.S. Olympic team that beat the Soviets
"You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon." - Coach Herb Brooks
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author
"Drucker taught that if you continue to do what made you successful in the past, you will eventually fail. This has been true in all times and in every field— including not only business, but war, politics and even in your personal life. Companies, industries, countries and even individuals that fail to understand this single principle litter history." - William A. Cohen, Retired Major General and author
"In war there is no substitute for victory." - General Douglas MacArthur (One of the great military strategists in World War II, and responsible for governing and rebuilding Japan during the Allied occupation).
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur
"Champions are famous for concentrating their energy and efforts on what they want and blocking out anything or anyone who threatens that focus. While average people haphazardly pursue loosely defined goals, champions concentrate on the attainment of a singular purpose with an intensity that borders on obsession. World-class performers invest an inordinate amount of time and energy in selecting their major goals . While the masses consider making changes every New Year’s Eve, the goal setting and planning process is an everyday habit of champions. When the goals are set, champions put mental blinders on and move forward with dogged persistence and ferocious tenacity. World-class performers create such an intense level of concentration to overcome challenges and achieve goals that it is the last thing they think about before they fall asleep, and the first thing that hits them when they wake up. The great ones dream about their goals so frequently that they often keep pen and paper on the nightstand so they can quickly record any ideas or solutions that come to them in the middle of the night. While average people see world - class performers’ successes as a matter of intelligence or luck, champions know sustained concentration of thought and action is usually the true key to their success." - Steve Siebold, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class.
"If you want it like you want to breathe. If you want it like you say you want it, you can have it. If you are willing to persevere, if you are willing to fight for it, there is nothing you can't have if you are willing to work for it. You might be smarter. You might come from privilege. But you will not outwork me! If you want to be successful in life, you have to understand that there is a sense of urgency. You have to do things faster than your competitors. There are some guys who are at a whole different level. You have to separate yourself. I dare you to leave everything on the field. Get tired of losing. There is greatness in you. You can reach your full potential. Be what you were called to be. Do what you were called to do. Listen to me. Do not fear. I need you to understand. that you can have it, but it is going to be a fight. But if you are willing to fight, there is going to come victory." - Eric Thomas, Author, speaker, educator and pastor[1]
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." - Jim Rohn
"Because the legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I can't promise you we'll be the best team at Lake Placid next February, but we will be the best conditioned. That I can promise you." - 2004 movie Miracle, Coach Herb Brooks (Coach Brooks was as famous for his colorful command of language as he was for his coaching style. These are a few "Brooksisms" as remembered by his players. They were compiled on the Herb Brooks Foundation website).[1][2]
"I'm really amazed how well-conditioned this team is. I've never seen the Soviets outskated this late in the game. And that is exactly what the U.S. team is doing right now." - Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games serving as a sports announcer for ABC News
"Indeed, if thou hurteth in thy efforts and thou suffer painful dings, then thou art doing it right." - Richard Marcinko, Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior[2][3][4]
"Thou hast not to like it-thou hast just to do it." - Richard Marcinko, Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior
“Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” - Alan Lakein
"Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." - Sun Tzu
"The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” – Robert E. Baine, American pastor and businessman
"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl." - Benjamin Jowett, English tutor and administrative reformer at the University of Oxford, a theologian, Anglican cleric, and a translator of Plato and Thucydides
"Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
