Great Throughts Treasury

"Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise."

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

"The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we’re going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we’re going to be happy or whether we’re going to be sad."

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

"Excellence seekers are not 20% better in any one area. They are 1% better in 20 different areas."

"Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them."

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions."

"If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals."

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."

"If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better."

"In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention."

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

"No one has ever drowned in sweat. "

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

"Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think."

"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."

"Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them."

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

"I always tell our athletes, "The qualities you develop now, the things we're going to insist upon, will be with you for life, and they'll always be as sound and as good as they are now." All we're really talking about is a commitment to excellence."

"You choose your friends, you choose your environment, you choose your actions. And you will be held accountable."

"There are only three things you can do when you have a problem with somebody. Change him, accept him, or divorce yourself from him."

"So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?"

"There is a thin line between discipline and harassment. Discipline breeds success; harassment breeds contempt."

"The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite."

"When you concern yourself with the welfare of others, you engender loyalty and respect. You create value. And you acquire power."

"Caring about somebody doesn't mean making it easy for them. Caring is helping them to develop their traits and talents."

"Ideas are funny things; they don't work unless you do."

"Patience isn't a virtue; it's a necessity."

"You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them."

"I have never heard a successful man or woman get up and say, "I owe my success to drugs and alcohol.""

"The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing."

"If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial."