If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.

There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"