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.

Will's Wisdom

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Young Guitar God Protégé

I just stumbled accross this young inspirational music man in South Korea.

His name is Sungha Jung. Happy to see this gifted young man accomplish so much in his spare time, instead of playing hours of Xbox 360. This young man is already an inspiration to over 4 million video viewers, on this video alone!

Here are the young mans own words from his website:

Hi, I'm Sungha Jung from South Korea. My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.

I had been watching my dad play the guitar for awhile before I finally jumped on it myself three years ago. I turned twelve in September, 2008.

Currently, I am taking drum lessons and teaching myself fingerstyle guitar.



I'm very grateful to those prominent guitarists who have had a great influence on my guitar playing. I'll continue to study them and learn more about interpretation of music and various playing techniques.

My daily practice routine lasts for one to two hours when school is open, but I play up to three hours a day during the school breaks.

Last, but certainly not least, I can't thank Ulli Bögershausen enough for being my musical inspiration.



Here is this young music guitar gods website:
www.sunghajung.com

Let's here some inspiration from one of Sungha Jung's favorite guitar artist, Eric Clapton.

Man Can Fly

My grandparents witness the birth of man flying inside a machine but I have lived to see man fly.

I was having trouble relating to my son and daughters generation of lingo. You know, INSANE, SiCK and Freaking Awesome Dude.

But once I saw these video's of Man Flying I knew immediately this was beyond INSANE and SiCK this is Freaking Awesome Dude. Or as Austin Powers might say, Groovy Baby! And I would add Holy Sh@T Batman....man can fly!



Warning: Make sure you are not on medication while watching these men fly. I'm having a hard time believing what I'm seeing.

Get out your French book, pump down a fast pint of Red Bull and put in your Heavy Metal Ear Plugs to watch this video.



It’s a bird, it’s a plane … no, it’s just the latest high-altitude sports craze that has grabbed the attention of thrill-seekers worldwide. Forget hang-gliders, the latest sport to take off is wingsuit flying. As the name suggests, just don a special Batman-esque jumpsuit and away you go. The wingsuit flyer exits from a plane or from a base-jump exit point such as a cliff wearing the space-age suit and a parachute. The flier then manipulates the shape of their body to create drag and lift. While still in the early stages of development, powered wingsuits using small jet engines that are strapped to the feet are now also being developed — what next?!



Wingsuit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, that shapes the human body into an airfoil which can create lift. The wingsuit creates the airfoil shape with fabric sewn between the legs and under the arms. It is also known by the public as a birdman suit or squirrel suit.

A wingsuit can be flown from any point that provides sufficient altitude to glide through the air, such as skydiving aircraft or BASE jumping exit points.

The wingsuit flier wears parachute equipment designed for skydiving or BASE jumping. The flier will deploy the parachute at a planned altitude and unzip the arm wings, if necessary, so he/she can reach up to the control toggles and fly to a normal parachute landing.



Wings were first used in the 1930s as an attempt to increase horizontal movement.

These early wingsuits were made of materials such as canvas, wood, silk, steel, and even whale bone. They were not very reliable. According to wingsuit lore, between 1930 and 1961, 72 of the 75 original birdmen died testing their wingsuits. Some of these so-called "birdmen," most notably Clem Sohn and Leo Valentin, claimed to have glided for miles and inspired dozens of imitators.

In the mid-1990s, French skydiver Patrick de Gayardon developed a wingsuit that had unparalleled safety and performance. Unfortunately, de Gayardon died on April 13, 1998 while testing a new modification to his parachute container in Hawaii; his death is attributed to a rigging error which was part of the new modification rather than a flaw in the suit's design. Despite his tragic end, de Gayardon planted the seeds for a new generation of birdmen.

New World Records

On July 24, 2008, Australian doctor Glenn Singleman jumped from 37,000 feet over central Australia setting a world record for highest wingsuit jump.

The largest wingsuit formation flown involved 71 jumpers (a "71 way") in a "Stealth Bomber" formation at Lake Elsinore, California, on 12 November 2008. The US record (satisfying USPA judging rules) is a 25 way diamond flown at Ottawa, Illinois, on 28 July 2009. A 25 way diamond was subsequently flown at Pepperell, Massachusetts on 15 August 2009.

Extreme Ski - A New Breed is Born

No doubt these are desendents from the orginal Dogtown and Z-Boys club kids. Long steep slopes in dangerous terrain where a single mistake at the wrong moment can mean death would rightly be classed as extreme skiing! Jumping out of Helicopters is extreme skiing. But this is a different breed of extreme skier. This is a combination of BMX biker and Urban Skateboarder extreme skier/boarder.



Every generation has its share of adventurers and envelope pushers. But this is beyond triple black diamond and out-of-bounds thrill seeker skiing. My friends, even King Leonidas and his mighty 300 Spartans would say...This is Madness!!!!!! And it's that very madness that makes this so damn inspirational to this old geezer.

I salute the younger generation of XXX-Extreme Skiers for doing what I never even dreamed was possible. Watching you guys gets my old heart a pumping and a thumping again.





Congratulations to a new breed of ski film producers. After 60 years old king Warren Miller is finally getting competition.



A salute to the orginal school now old school Frank Bare. Frank Bare made a mad man jump back in 1983 that proved he was the 80's Freestyle King. This jump sparked a new generation of freestyle skiing that moved on to a new frontier of out-of-bounds skiing and mindboggling urban style skateboarder rail runs. In the 80's Frank Bare was the king of freestyle ski jumps. But frank was no young blood dare devil, he had been a top gymnast for years.

Don LaFontaine: The Legendary Voice

750000 television spots, 5000 movie trailers, 1 voice, Don LaFontaine, the most recognizable voice in the game died Sept 2008. Here is the legend's story.



The voices without faces that delivery captivating inspiration.

Patrick Henry Hughes - Inspirational Story

This is an amazing inspirational story. The most unlikely story of a Music Man. This video proves it's possible to be born with talent which you can choose to develop or leave behind. This is also a fantastic father and son story of love and commitment.

Two Wolves Within

An old Grandfather, whose grandson came to him with anger at a schoolmate who had done him an injustice, said, "Let me tell you a story.

I too, at times, have felt a great hate for those that have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do. But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It is like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die. I have struggled with these feelings many times."

He continued, "It is as if there are two wolves inside me; one is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. He will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way."

"But the other wolf, ah! He is full of anger. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit."

The boy looked intently into his Grandfather's eye and asked, "Which one wins, Grandfather?"

The Grandfather solemnly said, "The one I feed."

The orginal story comes from a Cherokee Nation Legend of Wisdom.


Gall was a Sioux warrior and leader. He is the center piece for this depiction of the First Nations legend, "the wolves within". It tells how one evening a Cherokee elder sat with his grandson to tell him about the battle that goes on within people.

He said, "my son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. This wolf speaks with anger, envy, jealousy, hatred, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. This wolf speaks with joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, and caring, empathy, respect for self and others, generosity, truth and faith.

The grandson listened to his grandfather's words and asked, which wolf wins? The wise Cherokee elder looked into his grandson's eyes and replied, "The one you feed".