You can be a total winner, even if you’re a beginner If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can You can wear the gold medallion, you can ride your own black stallion If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can It’s not your talent or the gifted birth It’s not your bank book that determines worth It isn’t in your gender or the color of your skin It’s your attitude that lets you win It doesn’t matter what you’ve done before It makes no difference what the halftime score It’s never over ‘til the final gun So keep on trying and you’ll find you’ve won Just grab your dream and then believe it Go out and work, and you’ll achieve it If you think you can, you can If you think you can, you can - Denis Waitley
Just One Unknown
One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal
One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam lights a room One candle wipes out darkness, One laugh will conquer gloom.
One step must start each journey. One word must start each prayer. One hope will raise our spirits, One touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom, One heart can know what's true,
One life can make a difference, You see, it's up to you!
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.
He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.
You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.
Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform.
He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"
- Brian Cavanaugh "The Sower's Seeds"
The ONLY American to have won the 10,000m in the Olympics!
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change." - Jim Rohn
"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
- Margaret Drabble
"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."
- Dr. Frank Richards
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"Look for the opportunities in the difficulties, not the difficulties in the opportunities."
- Victor Fiorelli
"You got a dream..You got to protect it"
Start Where You Stand By Berton Braley
Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have left it all behind at last Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through; This is another chapter in the book, This is another race that you have planned, Don't give the vanished days a backward look, Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeats If you can start anew and win success; The future is your time, and time is fleet And there is much of work and strain and stress; Forget the buried woes and dead despairs, Here is a brand-new trial right at hand, The future is for him who does and dares, Start where you stand.