Win With Character
Learn the difference between winning and being a champion. To win, you merely have to cross the finish line first. To be a champion, you have to inspire admiration for your character, as well as for your physical talent. You have to compete in spirit of fair play, respecting your opponents and the rules.
Jacques Rogge, President IOC
Chart Your Course
The sea is only beautiful if there’s a shore. Life is like the sea. There’ll be a direction to follow even if you sail more than one day or one life… the promise of a new land is your guide, because you know that the sea is a huge world that’s beautiful only if there’s a shore.
Patricky Field
Live Life Rightly
Seek education rather than grades. Seek your best rather than someone else’s. Seek friendship rather than acceptance. Seek worth rather than rank. Seek to build rather than to tear down. Seek laughter and love in spite of pain and you will have learned to live.
Jaqui Sheehan
Love Enriches Life
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.
Mother Teresa
Attack Your Fears
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It’s good to be afraid occasionally. What’s not good is living in fear, allowing fear to define who you are. Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, taking its measure, refusing to let it shape and define your life.
Michael G Ignatieff
Challenges Strengthen Life
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
Accomplish With Humility
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
Lead By Example
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
Vince Lombardi
Knowing Is Power
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
Focus on Positives
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes solutions; knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome; sees the negatives, but accentuates the positives; is exposed to the worst but expects the best; has reason to complain, but chooses to smile.
William Arthur Ward
Adversity Breeds Creativity
What’s happiness without sadness? What’s light without darkness? You never can tell a positive thing without going through a negative thing. If you’ve been to the deepest valley in your life, then you will be very appreciative when you reached the highest peak in your life.
Evelyn Ha
Decisions Determine Destiny
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions for our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live.
Joseph Epstein
