Blissful

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not worry about failing. - Jeff Foxworthy


We all start out blissfully ignorant; successful people stay that way.

Unbuilt Palaces

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. - Fernando Pessoa


Act on your dreams.

Parenting Prosperity

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. - Harry S. Truman


Parenting success can outweigh fiscal failure.

Purpose and Principle

Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs. - Dee Hock


Whenever you gather others around you to advance a goal make sure they share your purpose and principles.

Accomplishment?

We are not without accomplishments. We have managed to distribute poverty equally. - Nguyen Co Thach

..... Success is in the eye of the beholder.

The Road to Success

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered. - Joseph J. Lamb

..... There are no short cuts.

Finest Hour

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. - Vince Lombardi

... Nobody said it was going to be easy.

Earning The Win

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel we have earned it. - Mark Twain


That is why there should be a winners and a losers in kids games. Trophies we get, but do not earn, fail to ignite the spirit.

Certain Failure

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. - Alexandre Dumas


If you have doubts about what you are capable of, don't do it.

Fast Lane

There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. - David W. Johnson

So be sure to go faster than any who might stop you.

Rewards

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Material rewards may feed the body but personal gratification dwarfs the gain.

Are You Perfect Yet?

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. - Ed Macauley


True in every endeavor, not just basketball.

Getting There

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne Sullivan


It's much easier to critique the end product than to get the product there.

Spotting Fools

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. - Charles Talleyrand


Learn to spot them a mile off - it's not hard.

Great Poetry

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. - L. Schefer

I doesn't matter how you build it, if it doesn't do the job it's a failure.

Famous Martyrs

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw

Give up the martyr attitude.

Notables Are Exceptional

You either have to be first, best or different. - Loretta Lynn

Be sure to develop your talent first.

Happening

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. to be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. - James Lovell

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Guess which one will get you success.

Successful Technology

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman


Word of mouth is unaffected by PR. (Word of Mouse as well).

Contentment With Mediocrity

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. - Johnetta Cole


Contentment means you have given up improving.