"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
--John Wooden, college basketball coach, winner of 10 NCAA championships
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other in our minds wherever we go."
- Martha Washington
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
--Milton Berle
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
-Mark Twain
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
- Eddie Robinson, 1919-2007, Grambling State University football coach.
The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-- Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are we doing for others?'
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance."
--John C. Maxwell
