8.11.2007

Hear it, See it, Do it

Action: "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." --Anonymous

Challenges: "Kites rise highest against the wind...not with it." --Winston Churchill

Commitment: "The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there." --Anonymous

Courage: "Courage is the door that can only be opened from the inside." --Terry Neil

Excellence: "It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." --Somerset Maugham

Failure: "Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought." --John Charles Sak

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

Integrity: "Wisdom is knowing the right path to take...integrity is taking it." --M.H. McKee

Passion: "Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... PURSUE THOSE." --Anonymous

Responsibility: "EXCUSES are the nails used to build a house of failure." --Don Wilder

Risk: "You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." --Wayne Gretzky

Service: "It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves." --Ralph Waldo Emerson