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A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
- Dick Vitale
No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is always a danger that in our asceticism we shall be tempted to imitate the sufferings of Christ. This is a pious but godless ambition, for beneath it there always lurks the notion that it is possible for us to step into Christ's shoes and suffer as he did and kill the old Adam. We are then presuming to undertake that bitter work of eternal redemption which Christ himself wrought for us. The motive of asceticism was more limited--to equip us for better service and deeper humiliation.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
- Dolly Parton
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
- Andrew Carnegie
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
- Les Brown
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
- Sam Walton
Be happy, but never satisfied.
- Bruce Lee
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Les Brown
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
- Charles Kettering
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- Steven Pressfield