Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It’s one of a parent’s greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.
Details create success.
You haven’t taught until they’ve learned.
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
The more concerned we become over the things we can’t control, the less we will do with the things we can control.
We can give without loving, but we can’t love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.
You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you’re outscored.
The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.
Respect every opponent, but fear none.
Don’t whine, complain, or make excuses.
There is no substitute for hard work. If you’re looking for the easy way, if you’re looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
Being true to ourselves doesn’t make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.