"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing."
-- Albanian Proverb"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
-- Chinese Proverb"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?"
-- Tony Campolo "He not busy being born is busy dying."
-- Bob Dylan"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous."
-- Margaret Fontey"The surface of the ocean changes constantly. Now it is smooth and quiet. Again it becomes violent and tempestuous. But in its depths, down under the storms that whip the surface into a fury, there is a zone of eternal calm which no storm ever reaches, no hurricane ever ruffles. The surface of life is also in a state of constant flux, with good days and bad, victory and defeat. To maintain, as the ocean does, a deep inner calm, while the storms of misfortune, reverses, fears and worries lash at the surface of life, is to discover the secret of serenity."
-- Wilferd A. Peterson"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."
-- Greg AndersonSome of us treat opportunity like sand. We fill our hands with it, and then let it slip through our fingertips until it is gone.
Sometimes, when we do not get what we want, we realize that what we got is what we would have wanted had we known what we would have gotten in the first place.
If you stop to think, don't forget to get started again.
Do what you can today, you may not have the same opportunity tomorrow.
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
-- Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe"The interest of being positive today will determine the incredible returns that await you tomorrow."
-- Brian G. Jett"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."
-- Erica Jong"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end."
-- Sidney A. Friedman"I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough."
-- Albert Einstein"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-- John Quincy Adams"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it."
-- Mary Lou RettonLive each day as if it were your last, because someday you will be right.
"The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word."
-- Gene Donohue"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-- Robert Frost"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-- Theodore Roosevelt"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-- Helen Keller"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
-- Winston Churchill"Live to win, dare to fail."
-- Metallica, Carpe Diem Baby"I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out."
-- Payne Stewart"The greater the obstacles, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere"If you can go through life without experiencing pain, you probably haven't been born yet."
-- Neil Simon"A prudent question is one-half wisdom."
-- Francis BaconYou cannot make your dreams come true until you wake up.
It is far more important that you know where you are going than to get their with record speed.
Being satisfied with things the way they are is a sure way to stop progress.
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-- Walter Bagehot"Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."
-- Grace Speare"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."
-- Danish Proverb"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"
-- Mother Teresa"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
-- Marquis de Condorcet"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible--not to have run away."
-- Dag Hammarskjold"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."
-- Martha Burgess"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr."Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
-- Elbert Hubbard"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."
-- Oswald SpenglerLife Quotations [page 2]
This great game of basketball can, of course, be a fun and enjoyable experience. But this game also demands discipline, hard work, and mental toughness. Lessons learned on the basketball court can almost always be applied off the court. If you learn from it, something great can be taken from every experience.
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