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