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Teamwork is the essence of life!!
- Pat Riley
What is mine is yours, and what's yours is mine.
- William Shakespare
Ask not what your teammates can do for you Ask what you can do for your teammates.
- Magic Johnson
Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself.
- Peter Mere Latham
If the blind l ead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- Matthew 15:14
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers
- Kikuyu proverb
We must either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
- William James
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, new goes back to its orginal dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- Honore de Balzac
Great men are meteors deigned to burn so that earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up.
- Mark Twain
Self-interested is the enemy of all true affection.
- Tacitus
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.
- J. L. Basford
Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
- Harold Schoenberg
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiratin, unselfishness, the only real religion.
- Israel Zangwill
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
- Hailliard
Success has ruined many a man.
- Ben Franklin
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord are destroyed.
- Sallust
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
- James Baldwin
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin on signing the Declaration of Independence
Mutual aid is as much law of animal life as mutual struggle.
- Prince Kropotkin
Jeaousy, the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to man.
- Thomas Carlyle
Ain't no chance if you don't take it.
- Guy Clark
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better then they think they are.
- Reggie Jackson
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
If he works for you, you work for him.
- Japanese proverb
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
- Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
- Sun Tzu
You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
- William Shakespeare
Now you're lookin' at a man that getting' kinda mad; I've had lots of luck, but it's all been bad. No matter how I struggle and strive I'll never get out of this world alive.
- Hank Williams
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only once feat is possible-not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
- Denis Waitley and Rem Witt
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
- George Santayana
It is very bad thing to become accustomed to good luck.
- Publilus Syrus
The crisis of yesterday is the job of tomorrow.
-
H. G. Wells
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The things which hurt, instruct.
- Benjamin Franklin
It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it. Delbert McClinton
The sofest things in the world overcome the harderst things in the world.
- Lao-Tzu
My only hope lies in my despair.
- Jean Racine
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
- T. H. Huxley
God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.
- Ted Williams
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
- Donald Rumsfeld
In war there is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur
To appreciate heaven well, 'tis good for a man to have some fiftenn minutes of hell. Will Carleton
Let no man's heart fail because of him (Goliath).
- First Book of Samuel
Success generally depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- Montesquieu
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
- M. H. Alderson
Nowhere to go but out, nowhere to come but back.
- Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
- Van Morrison
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Shultz
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- the Celts
By indignities men come to dignities.
- Francis Bacon
Men die of fright and live of confidence.
- Thoreau
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
- II Timothy, 4:7
.[I]n ourselves are triumph and defeat.
- Longfellow
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Let Beaut full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood.
- Margaret Abigail Walker
Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only place where success comes before the work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
- Terence
The wise and moral man shines like a fire on a hilltop.
- The Pali Canon
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired- you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping sould.
- Friedrich Schiller
Each Success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- Henry Kissinger
Facts do not cease to be because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
- Robert Townsend
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter Drucker
Men's Faults do seldom to themselves appear.
- Shakespeare
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
- Joe Paterno
He who stops being better stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
- Joe Paterno
You cannot manage men into battle. You manage things, you lead people.
-
Grace Murray Hopper
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Those who cannot remember the past are condemmend to repeat it.
- George Santayana
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- Francis Bacon
Lord, deliever me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
- Dr. William J. Mayo
Don't brood on what's past, but don't forget it either.
- Thomas H. Raddal
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Some of us are like wheelbarrows-only useful when pushed, and very easily upset.
-
Jack Herbert
We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
- D. Wayne Calloway
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse.
- Walt Disney
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
- John Keats
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
A mission could be defined as an image of a desire state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your motivation and determine your behavior.
- Charles Garfield
Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
- Marshall Fishwick
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