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

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.

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.