Get Twice as Much Work Done

We all get twice as much work done on the day before vacation....

Zig Zigler, “Get Motivated” seminar, 4/26/2005, Nashville

American Flag as a Symbol both of Freedom and Overwhelming Force

A quote from General George C. Marshal on the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.

"We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other."

Attempt the Absurd, Consistency, Comfort, Peace, Silence

Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible.

Unknown

Being stuck in a rut is a form of consistency

Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning,
“Get Motivated” seminar, 4/26/2005, Nashville

The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Finely Peter Dunne

The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the getting-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. “He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,” is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors and mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. The paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to live, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it, he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

G. K. Chesterton

Zig Ziglar on Money

Anybody who says they’re not interested in money will lie about other things too.... I like what money buys but I love what money won’t buy...Money will buy me a bed but it won’t buy me a good nights sleep.

Zig Zigler, “Get Motivated” seminar, 4/26/2005, Nashville

Helen Keller on Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller’s Journal