In my last posting I provided a few alliterations that I happened to be thinking of at the time. Since one thing leads to another I thought of another alliterative sentence that I used with my athletes when I was coaching many years ago: “Proper prior planning prevents pitifully poor performance.” I then thought of my collected quotations that I sometimes look at and ponder. Here are a few for you.
• ‘My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.’ Abraham Lincoln
• ‘Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.’ Henry Ford
• ‘Words can show a man’s wit, but action shows his meaning.’ B. Franklin
• ‘A successful person is one who is big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
• ‘Dreams are the touchstones of our character.’ Henry David Thoreau
• ‘The will to succeed is important; but what is more important is the will to prepare.’ Coach Bobby Knight
• People who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they deliver.
• ‘Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.’ P.T. Barnum.
• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
• If you try to improve one person by being a good example, you’re improving two.
• Life is a lesson. Death is freedom.
• ‘I shall hear in heaven.’ L. Beethoven (who was deaf)
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