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For The Ones Who Dream

– Mia Dolan (Emma Stone/La La Land)

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What I AM

Dr. Maya Angelou (2013)

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What I am … NOT

Richard Williams (2015)

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Attitude Expectations Knowledge Leadership Values Wisdom

Discipline, means …

Doing what has to be done,
How it has to be done,
Every time.

– Gerard Carlse (adapted from Robert M. Knight‘s, One Man Basketball Clinic, 1981)

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Attitude Knowledge

Complete Victory

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

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Attitude Courage Freedom Wisdom

Every man dies …

– William Wallace (Braveheart/Mel Gibson)

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Essential Learning

Know what you have.

Do what you can.

Find a way.

– Gerard Carlse (Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other, by Ken Dryden, p. 121)

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Attitude Motivation Wisdom

Person to person …

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Attitude Faith Motivation Wisdom

Faith

Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”

He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”

Margaret Fishback Powers (1964)

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This Little Light of Mine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love, 1992)