Action: “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed…every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle…when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” –Anonymous
Attitude: “It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us.”
–Earl Nightingale
Balance: “Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” –Van Goethe
Belief: “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.” –Rich Devos
Challenges: “Kites rise highest against the wind…not with it.” –Winston Churchill
Commitment: “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” –Anonymous
Courage: “Courage is the door that can only be opened from the inside.” –Terry Neil Discipline: “To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.” –AnonymousExcellence: “It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” –Somerset MaughamFailure: “Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.” –John Charles Sak
Habits: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle
Integrity: “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take…integrity is taking it.” –M.H. McKee Knowledge: “Knowledge is like climbing a mountain; the higher you reach, the more you can see and appreciate.” –AnonymousPassion: “Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…
PURSUE THOSE.” –AnonymousPerseverance: “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins…not through strength but by perseverance.” –H. Jackson Brown
Responsibility: “EXCUSES are the nails used to build a house of failure.” –Don Wilder
Risk: “You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” –Wayne Gretzky Service: “It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. –Ronald Reagan
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” -Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich
“When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Inventor
SIBLING QUOTES
I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. -Maya Angelou
A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. -Marian Sandmaier
Sibling relationships – and 80 percent of Americans have at least one – outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. -Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994
We are more than just acquaintances… it’s as if we are cut from the same fabric.
Even though we appear to be sewn in a different pattern, we have a common thread that won’t be broken — by people or years or distance. – Unknown
Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions. Yet our roots remain as one.
Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other. – Unknown
Our siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were. – Betsy Cohen
You and I have so many memories — you share my history. You remember where I’ve been,
respect who I’ve become and encourage me where I’m going. – Unknown
