Highway to Success

"Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do." -Dr Robert H Schuller

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -Vincent T. Lombardi

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." -Norman Vincent Peale

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success." -Thomas J. Watson

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vince Lombardi

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." -Bob Dylan

"If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. -Zig Ziglar

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." -Robert H. Schuller

Look Forward Not Backward

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."   William C Durant, 12/08/1861 - 03/18/1947 Founder of General Motors

Durant created GM by combining 13 automotive companies in 1908. Durant made and lost two fortunes and was personally bankrupt by 1936, resulting from his losses during the Great Depression.

Leasons learned from Leaders: "Look Foward Not Backward" -William M Wright

Our Deepest Fear...

Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure.

Top Ten Inspirational Jumps

Yikes...I passed out on #9 recovered three jumps later and then was in a frozen state for the #1 Jump.

Ski Fly the Wall

Superior, Speed Fly from Marshall Miller on Vimeo.

Will's Wisdom

Will's Wisdom: Enduring endless work ethic. Never accept it can't be done.

Attitude for Life

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

It is said that life is 10% what happens to people and 90% how they react to it.

And so it is with you and I... we are in charge of our attitudes.

Attitude Makes The Difference

"Don't get an advanced case of sinking thinking. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude" -Zig Ziglar

Attitude Drives Behavior

Attitudes drive behavior. Your body language is a result of your mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you get in that mood and send out a message that everyone understands, consciously or unconsciously.

Almost always, you have a choice as to what attitude to adopt. There is nothing in any normal work situation that dictates you must react one way or another. If you feel angry about something that happens, for instance, that's how you choose to feel. Nothing in the event itself makes it absolutely necessary for you to feel that way. It is your choice. And since you do have a choice, most of the time you'll be better off if you choose to react in a positive rather than a negative way.

The Power of Positive Attitude

It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind. Learn and master powerful strategies you can use to keep yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.

Positive Attitude Means Longer Life

If you want to live a longer, healthier life then you need to develop and maintain a positive attitude – it's now a fact thanks to a study from the two American Universities.5 Researchers followed and studied 1500 people for 7-years. All 1500 were in good health when the study started. Researchers followed how they aged by measuring such things as weight loss, walking speed, exhaustion and the strength of their grip.

What exactly did they discover? They found that people who maintained a positive attitude were significantly less likely to show signs of aging, they were less likely to become frail and were more likely to be stronger and healthier than those that had a negative attitude. If you have a doom and gloom attitude you're actually killing yourself and at the very least – you're negative attitude is just making you weaker.

Researchers found that a positive thinking and attitude improved a persons health because it made it more likely that they would succeed in life. So not only will a positive attitude help you be healthy and live longer – but it also increases the likelihood that you will succeed.

Lead researcher Dr. Glenn Ostir explained it this way: "I believe that there is a connection between mind and body – and that our thoughts and attitudes/emotions affect physical functioning, and over all health, whether through direct mechanisms, such as immune function, or indirect mechanisms, such as social support networks."

Attitude Motivation

Attitude motivation is about how people think and feel. "It is their self-confidence, their belief in themselves, their attitude to life – be it positive or negative. It is how they feel about the future and how they react to the past."2

Attitude Is Infectious

Your attitude is the first thing people pick up on in face-to-face communication.1 Just as laughing, yawning, and crying are infectious, attitude is infectious. Before you say a word, your attitudes can infect the people who see you with the same behavior. Somehow just by looking or feeling, you can be infected by another person's attitude, and vice versa. When you are operating from inside a really useful attitude, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and humility, your body language tends to take care of itself and sends out unmistakable signals of openness.

Do What You Can, With What You Have

Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes:

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

When President McKinley was shot in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest person ever to become President. He was only 42. A dynamic nationalist, Roosevelt was a popular and controversial president. He greatly expanded presidential power and made the United States the virtual guardian of the Western Hemisphere and a major force in European and Far Eastern affairs. He was also the first president-reformer of the modern era supporting the technological revolution and a nationwide system of commerce and industry. His policies advanced the cause of conservation and the need to conserve natural resources. He increased regulation of business and stimulated the rise of the welfare state.

Roosevelt had great personal charm, remarkable intellectual humility, and a genuine commitment to peace in the abstract. Despite extraordinary services to world peace while president, he came close to being a lover of war. He could be self-righteous and ruthless and his curiosity and his intellectual achievements was the most wide ranging since President Thomas Jefferson.

Roosevelt left the White House and the Presidency in 1909, traveled the world extensively, and then entered and lost the presidential election of 1912 to Woodrow Wilson.

Recurring bouts with malarial fever, picked up during his travels, sapped Roosevelt's strength during his last years. Roosevelt died in his sleep in the "Gate Room" at his home on Sagamore Hill early on the morning of January 6, 1919 from a pulmonary embolism. His son Archie sent a cable to his brothers, "The old lion is dead." He was buried without eulogy, music, or military honors in a plain oak casket at Sagamore Hill

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

During a nearly eight-year presidency, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the United States into a world power and the federal government into a vigorous regulator of the industrializing domestic economy. Roosevelt was a frail boy who became a strong man; a soldier who won the Nobel Prize for Peace; a big-game hunter who founded the National Wildlife Refuge System; a historian whose freewheeling revision of the Monroe Doctrine was ultimately dismantled by his fifth cousin Franklin. Above all, he was the son of an elite New York Knickerbocker family who promised “a square deal” for ordinary Americans, taking on powerful lobbies to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission, establish the Department of Labor and Commerce, pass the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection acts, and file dozens of federal suits against monopolies. Raised by his father to believe in his civic responsibility, certain of his ability to determine what was right, he possessed in abundance the intellectual and physical energies, political acuity, social standing, and charisma to realize many of his convictions.

Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880 and studied law at Columbia before leaving to assume a seat in the state assembly in 1882. In 1902 he became the first president since Washington to make an official visit to Columbia, attending the installation of his friend and political ally Nicholas Murray Butler as president of the University.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Virtual Inspirational Choir

Bringing inspirational voices together from 12 Countries, into your home, without leaving home. Creative combination of Art & Technology.

Blind Inspiration

Stevie Wonder claims he had no idea his musical idol Ray Charles was blind.

The singer, who has been sightless all his life, was inspired to be a musician by the late soul legend - but did not realise they shared the same disability until they met.

The 'Superstition' star, who named his debut album 'A Tribute to Uncle Ray', told Uncut magazine: "It was only when I was 11 and I recorded 'Tribute To Uncle Ray' that I found out he was blind.

"It was after a performance and he came out of his dressing room and someone led him over to me. "He was kind of jumping up and down a bit."

The 55-year-old singer, who has had more than 30 hits in his 40-year career, says that first meeting with Ray gave him the determination to succeed.

He added: "I presented him with the album and he said, 'Keep on doing what you're doing, young man'.

"And his drummer gave me a pair of drumsticks. I was so happy!"



Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
-Sophocles, Greek Poet, 425 BC

Making A Difference - Just Once

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank


Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten


Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Seaton


We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss


It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~Norman Lear


Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown


I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale


It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith


Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~Edmund Burke


If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa


Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer


He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~Sunshine Magazine


This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw


Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~Laurence Leamer, King of the Night


No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras


If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli

One Minute Motivation Man

One Minute Motivations are quick motivational videos to motivate you to be your best, and to help you deal with some of life's most challenging problems. From relationships to fitness tips.

Three Golden Words

Three Words And Their Special Effects


LET ME HELP - Good people/friends do this when they see someone hurt and jump to help. They are sure winners.


I UNDERSTAND YOU - A powerful tool for healing any relationship and become closer.


I RESPECT YOU - Another way of showing love in all interpersonal relationship.


I MISS YOU - This powerful affirmation tells the other person that they are wanted, needed, desired and loved.


YOU ARE RIGHT - Best effective in diffusing arguments.


PLEASE FORGIVE ME - Heals and restores broken relationships.


I THANK YOU - Gratitude is an exquisite form of courtesy.


COUNT ON ME - Loyalty is a special ingredient in any relationship.


I'LL BE THERE - A great gift to give for a relationship in need for renewing love and friendship.


GO FOR IT - Best way of supporting and encouraging the other person's dreams and desires.

Football Inspiration Feast

What would January College Football playoff bowl games be without our time honored locker room inspirational speechs? Let's kickoff the New Year with some classics.

Paul Potts Got Talent

Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970) is a British pop opera tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot. Potts was a manager at The Carphone Warehouse who also performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003.

Potts was born in Kingswood, near Bristol, England and raised in Fishponds, Bristol, by his father Roland, a bus driver, and mother, Yvonne (née Higgins), a supermarket cashier.[2] He has two brothers and one sister. Potts attended St. Mary Redcliffe school, where he developed his love of singing.[3] He also sang with the choir at Chester Park Junior School and with the choirs at several Bristol churches, including Christ Church. Potts said in interviews that he had been bullied in school, and that experience may have made him lack self-confidence. He has also said that his voice had always been a source of solace in the past when he was bullied.

He earned an Honours degree in 1993 from University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, majoring in Humanities.[5] In 1996, Potts was elected the youngest member of Bristol City Council; a Liberal Democrat, he served until 2003. Potts was a manager at mobile phone store Carphone Warehouse in Bridgend.



Potts first sang opera in 1999 in a karaoke competition, dressed as Luciano Pavarotti. That same year, he appeared in the Michael Barrymore musical quiz show My Kind of Music. Although he did not take first place, he won £8,000 — enough to help pay for vocal lessons in Italy, during which he was selected to perform in front of Pavarotti and Katia Ricciarelli.

Potts began in the minor roles of The Prince of Persia and the Herald in Puccini's Turandot for the Bath Opera, an amateur company, in 1999. He then performed leading roles on four occasions: Don Basilio in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 2000; Don Carlos in Verdi's Don Carlos in 2001; Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni in 2003; and Radames in Verdi's Aida in 2003. He also performed the role of the Chevalier des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut for the Southgate Opera Company in London, an amateur company, in May 2003. Additionally, he sang with a small ensemble from the Royal Philharmonic in front of an audience of 15,000 and toured northern Italy as a soloist as part of his music classes there.

In several interviews, Potts revealed that he performed Aida despite doctors' wishes to remove an adrenal tumour they had discovered during his illness from a burst appendix, and performed Manon Lescaut shortly after the surgery to remove it. Potts broke his collarbone and suffered whiplash in a bicycle accident in 2003, which prevented him from pursuing opera as a career. The mishap and financial difficulties that followed led him to enter Britain's Got Talent despite not having sung in years

Col Tim Collins' inspirational speech

Kenneth Branagh recreates Col. Tim Collins' speech to 1 Batt., Royal Irish Regiment, on 19 March 2003, immediately prior to the invasion of Iraq. From the BBC production 10 Days to War.



Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
Words and music by Ed McCurdy

Last night I had the strangest dream,
I never dreamed before.
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war.
I dreamed I saw a mighty room,
The room was filled with men.
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again.

And when the paper was all signed,
And a million copies made
They all joined hands and bowed their heads,
And grateful prayers were made.
And the people in the streets below,
Were dancing round and round.
While swords and guns and and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground.

Last night I had the strangest dream,
I’d ever dreamed before.
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war.

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, Thats why it's called the Present.

Many people have been credited with this saying, including Babatunde Olatunji (60's) and Eleanor Roosevelt (30's). But the orginal saying goes much further back in time.

The full quote often reads: "The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."

In the 1902 book, "Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights..." by Alice Morse Earle, it is noted that the words "Time Waits for No Man" is a play on words or punning device of "gnomon" that has been used on sun dials. A gnomon is a pointer on a sun dial. Somewhere along the way came the full quote which has been truncated to this modern day phrase.

Many believe the phrase has its root in "Time and Tide wait for No Man," meaning no one is so powerful that he can stop the march of time.

According to "The Phrase Finder":

The origin is uncertain, although it's clear that the phrase is ancient and that it predates modern English. The earliest known record is from St. Marher, 1225.

Music Inspiration -The Corrs

Music to please the sole; Music to rest the mind; Music to dream by; and Music to live by. Music warms us. Music moves us. -WMW

A Fathers Love

The Today Show did a special called Today's Real Heroes on Father and Son, Dick and Rick Hoyt. It's a very powerful story. If it doesn't inspire, motivate, and move you to tears, I'm not sure what will.