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Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
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Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.
Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.
Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
