12/19/12

Merry Christmas!  Do not worry about posting any more to the blog for this week  ... or until next year!  Enjoy the holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Go Bearcats!

12/18/12

 "Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better." - Jim Rohn

12/17/12

"Leadership is helping others matter." - Unknown

12/14/12

"We win when we decide our commitment to excellence will be greater than that of our competition." Dr. Lou Holtz

12/13/12

Nobody gets anything done unless they’re a little nutty, unless they have great energy, and great enthusiasm. -  Coach Bill Self

12/11/12

"The bold life is only bold if you share it with others. When you give, expect nothing in return." Kevin Fullerton 

12/10/12

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams

12/7/12

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln

12/6/12

"I never did a day's work in my life- it was all fun." - Thomas Edison

12/4/12

Seeing doesn't guarantee vision and thinking doesn't guarantee wisdom. - Kevin Honeycutt

12/3/12

oo many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like – Will Rogers

11/30/12

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious." - V. Lombardi

11/29/12

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. - Jimmy V 

11/28/12

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

11/27/12

 Talent is given to everyone. Success is given to the dedicated. - Josh Shipp

11/26/12

Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love & whatever skill you have & it will come out - Chuck Jones

11/21/12

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. -Voltaire

11/20/12

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

11/19/12

"Creatvity comes from spontaneous meetings from random discussions." ~Steve Jobs

11/16/12

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. -William James

11/15/12

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yeats

11/14/12

Failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. - Donald Miller

11/13/12

"Failure shows us who we truly are... Here's the thing - if you don't fail, you aren't trying hard enough." Kevin Fullerton

11/12/12

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven't." ~Thomas Edison 

11/8/12

The problem is, playing it safe never challenges you ...Playing it safe never, ever leads to great success. - Kevin Fullerton

11/7/12

"I always try to leap boldly. No more dipping my toe into the water - it's full on cannon balls." Kevin Fullerton 

11/6/12

Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. -Vince Lombardi

11/5/12

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -Benjamin Disraeli

11/5/12

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -Benjamin Disraeli

11/2/12

Chop your own wood, it will warm you twice. -Henry Ford

11/1/12

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -John Wooden

10/31/12 State Land Judging Day! (aka Halloween)

"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."...John Wooden

10/30/12

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. -Benjamin Franklin

10/29/12

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

10/26/12

Talent is given to everyone. Success is given to the dedicated. - Josh Shipp

10/25/12

To be the best, it hurts. In order to be the best, you have to learn to overcome pain, and you learn that in practice.

10/24/12

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -Benjamin Franklin

10/23/12

"Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.” -@RickWarren

10/22/12

"You will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory" - Spongebob

10/19/12

SUCCESS ALWAYS LOOKS EASY TO THOSE WHO WEREN'T AROUND WHEN IT WAS BEING EARNED. - Kyan Brown

10/19/12

SUCCESS ALWAYS LOOKS EASY TO THOSE WHO WEREN'T AROUND WHEN IT WAS BEING EARNED. - Kyan Brown

10/18/12

Success is never owned. It is only rented; and the rent is due everyday... Rory Vaden

10/17/12

If you wait to be great to start, you'll neither be great nor start. Spend your heartbeats now...this is not rehearsal! - Kevin Honeycutt

10/16/12

The only difference between a superstar and a bum is the willingness to take a chance!

10/15/12

Talent is given to everyone. Success is given to the dedicated.

10/12/12

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. | William James 

10/11/12

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney

10/10/12

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. -Robert Heinlein

10/9/12

Be open to criticism, but not defeated by it." - Scott ?

10/8/12

 Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

10/5/12

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -Arnold Glasow

10/4/12

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice. -Doug Larson

10/2/12

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. So live life to the fullest today, and have no regrets. - Denzel Washington

10/1/12

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. -Ruth Gordon

9/26/12

Doubt will take you out of action, action will take you out of doubt. - Unknown

9/25/12

"Every master was once a disaster." -Chris Halford

9/24/12

"If the mailman reacted to every barking dog, he would never get the mail delivered." Coach John Calipari

9/21/12

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created." Scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

9/20/12

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. -Michael Jordan

9/19/12

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -Michael Jordan

9/18/12

A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. | Rosalyn Carter

9/17/12

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. -Winston Churchill

9/14/12

"Your resume isn't handed to you w/ your birth certificate. You can create & recreate your own life." -Ken Robinson

9/13/12

You can't change people, either accept who they are or start living life without them. - Unknown

9/12/12

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

9/11/12

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. -Ernest Dimnet

9/10/12

Creativity is just connecting things. -Steve Jobs

9/7/12

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership.Always keep your word. Jim Rohn

9/6/12

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it. -Lou Holtz

9/5/12

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. -George Eliot

9/4/12

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. -Woodrow Wilson

8/30/12

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. -George Horace Lorimer

8/29/12

"If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier." - John Wooden

8/28/12

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

8/27/12

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. | Albert Einstein

8/24/12

 Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you | H. Jackson Brown

8/23/12

Leaders value the unexpected opportunity.
They not only see big moments, they create them.

~ Chris Novak

8/22/12

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. -Kareem Abdul Jabbar

8/21/12

Well begun is half done. -Aristotle

8/20/12

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. -Albert Einstein

8/17/12

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you." | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8/16/12

“Success means having the courage, the determination & the will 2 become the person u believe you were meant to be.” 

-- Unknown

5/4/12

NO QUOTE TODAY!

Congrats Seniors on completing this step of your life.  Please make sure you are caught up on all past quotes.  I will be checking on Monday.

5/3/12

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

-- Winston Churchill

5/1/12

"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"

-- Vince Lombardi

4/30/12

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

-- Abraham Lincoln

4/27/12

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and isntall a love of learning."

Brad Henry

4/26/12

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."

-- Helen Keller

4/25/12

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

-- Vince Lombardi

4/24/12

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worse kind of heart trouble."

-- Bob Hope

4/23/12

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

-- Henry Ford

4/20/12

"We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believed." -- Jane Goodall

4/19/12

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.


-- Helen Keller

4/18/12

"Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing."

-- Warren Bennis

4/17/12

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

-- George Bernard Shaw

4/16/12

"Defending is a kill discipling, like scoring. It takes deliberate practice, determination, and heart. If you build both, W's will come."

Coach Gary Harper

4/13/12

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

-- Tom Peters

4/12/12

"Advocacy is about heart work. "To measure a leader, put a tape around their heart, not their head.""

-- John C. Maxwell

4/11/12

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

-- John Dewey

4/10/12

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

-- John E. Southard

4/5/12

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

-- Jim Rohm

4/4/12

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could & should do for themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

4/3/12

"Throughs is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."

-- Augustus Hare

4/2/12

"You can spend your life thinking about what's been taken from you or what has been given to you."

-- Dawn Treader

3/30/12

"Your Will is more powerful then your Talent. Combined, unstoppable."

-- Emmitt Smith

3/29/12

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."

-- Abigail Van Buren

3/28/12

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

-- George Bernard Shaw

3/27/12

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

-- Earl Nightengale

3/26/12

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

-- Mark Twain

3/23/12

"One's destiny is not determined by what he possesses, but by what possesses him."

-- Anonymous

3/22/12

"I "failed" my way to success."

-- Thomas Edison

3/21/12

"Speak when you are angry-and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

-- Laurence J. Peter

3/20/12

"The best way to get even is to forget."

-- Unknown

3/19/12

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"


-- Martin Luther King Jr.

3/16/12

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

--Mark Twain

3/15/12

"In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment."

-- Pat Riley

3/14/12

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

-- Winston Churchill

3/13/12

"Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."

-- Earl Nightingale

3/12/12

"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do."

-- Lin Yutang

3/1/12

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse always gets the cheese in the trap.

Gavin and Corbin

2/28/12

"To the daring belongs the future"

-- Emma Goldman

2/27/12

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

Henry Ford

2/24/12

"Take the court with pride, leadership, and ownership and you'll get the job done!"

Teya Mason and Kalynn Dahlke

2/23/12

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

-- Warren G Bennis

2/22/12

"Be it furniture, clothes, healthcare ... industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers."

-- Michael Mescon

2/21/12

"Let your heart soar as high as it will. Don't settle for average."

A. W. Tozer

2/20/12

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

Benjamin Disraeli

2/17/12

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2/16/12

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

-- Edmund Burke

2/15/12

"Good leaders must first become good servants."

-- Robert Greenleaf

2/14/12 Happy Valentine's Day

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work!"

-- Thomas A Edison

2/13/12

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

-- Earl Nightingale

2/10/12

"Do not fear going forward slowly, fear only to stand still."

--Chinese Proverb

2/8/12

"Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it."

-- O. A. Battista

2/7/12

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

-- Thomas Jefferson

2/6/12

"An important question for leaders: 'Am I building people, or building my dream and using people to do it?'"

-- John Maxwell

2/3/12

"Courage puts a new fact on everything."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2/2/12

"I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment."

-- Sledman Graham

2/1/12

"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, buy only empties today of its strength."

-- Charles H. Spurgeon

1/31/12

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Napolaon Bonaparte

1/30/12

"All truth in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Thomas Henry Huxley

1/27/12

"Learn to accept in silence minor aggravations."

-- Sir William Osler

1/26/12

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

-- Earl Nightingale

1/25/12

"If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you."

-- Eric Allenbaugh

1/24/11

"The best piece of advice I know for dealing with change at work comes from flying; if you lose your way, keep moving -- no matter what."

-- Christine Shipp

1/23/12

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring out the false, ring in the true."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

1/20/12

"We are what we repeatedly do."

-- Aristotle

1/19/12

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."

-- Harvey S. FIrestone

1/18/12

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

--Orison Swett Marden

1/17/12

"The secret to success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

1/16/12

"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again today."

--Buddha

1/13/12

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

== Helen Keller

1/12/12

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

-- Josh Billings

1/11/12

"You're only as good as the people you hire."

-- Ray Kroc

1/10/12

"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit."

-- Robert Schuller

1/9/12

"Courage is grace under pressure."

--Earnest Hemmingway

1/6/12

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

--Robert Hall

1/5/12

"In the long run, we only hit what we aim at."

-- Henry David Thoreau

1/4/12

"Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard then anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

1/3/12

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson