All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
