Success

Posted on May 20, 2012 by David Young

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Success – it’s what you do with what you’ve got.
— Woody Hayes

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
— C.S. Lewis

If you try hard and you have fun and you’re a good sport, you’re a success no matter what the score or where you finish. You could be perfectly prepared. You could do absolutely everything right. You could run the best race of your life and other people could beat you. That doesn’t mean you are not a success.
— Nancy Ditz

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Crisis

Posted on May 19, 2012 by David Young

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
— John F. Kennedy

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn’t make me stronger.
— Lou Holtz

I believe that God gave us crises for some reason – and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad. A crisis can be a momentous time for a team to grow.
— Mike Krzyzewski

In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change – breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
— Susan Taylor

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Serving Others

Posted on May 18, 2012 by David Young

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
— John Gardner

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi

The best antidote I know for comparison compulsion (or status-symbol syndrome, as it’s also known) is service. Not serving just anyone, but serving people who can’t give you anything of value in return.
— Kerry and Chris Shook

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Receiving Criticism

Posted on May 17, 2012 by David Young

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks that others throw at him.
— David Brinkley

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
— Dale Carnegie

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
— Robert Heinlein

It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while bearing greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt

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The Treasure in Books

Posted on May 16, 2012 by David Young

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
— Henry Ward Beecher

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
— Jesse Bennett

Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, and the refuge and comfort of adversity.
— Cicero

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
— Charles Eliot

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The Power of Commitment

Posted on May 15, 2012 by David Young

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
— B.C. Forbes

As a young man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel, which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
— James Michener

My father was a janitor for the city of Seattle and he had a pretty hard life. Not only did he have seven children to raise, he also suffered a number of medical problems. But he took on all of these obligations that he had and he stuck to them. By watching him, I learned the value of perseverance.
— Franklin Raines

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God Will Provide

Posted on May 14, 2012 by David Young

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
— Corrie ten Boom

Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
— Joshua 1:9

When things happen to us that we don’t understand, we can scream, “Why me? Why me, God?” We can allow circumstances to drive us away from God. Or we can do an about-face and run to God and cling to Him and find in Him our security and our hope.
— Paul Azinger, on being diagnosed with cancer

Because God knows and understands all things, He can be trusted to do what is best.
— Billy Graham

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