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Set 5

Make no judgments if you have no compassion. -Anne McCaffrey

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failure. -Gene Brown

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. -George Fisher

Be bold in what you stand for and careful in what you fall for. -Ruth Boorstin

We are tomorrow's past. -Mary Webb

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden

A have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat. -David Berry

Discipline is remembering what you want. -David Campbell

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -Tommy Lasorda

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. -Barry Goldwater

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Beverly Sills

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. -Unknown Author

We work to become, not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -Dan Stanford

In the race to quality, there is no finish line. -David Kearns

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. -Max De Pree

Time as a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. -Richard Sapir

I make the most of what goes and the least of all that goes. -Sara Teasdale

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. -Lillian Watson

The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it. -Libbie Fudim

Let us be thankful for fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain

You never know when you are making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -Mildred Barthel

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imagination. -Steve Allen

Goals determine what you are going to be. -Julius Erving

When you have the advantage—you must attack—for any hesitation on your part could cause loss of that advantage. -Wilhelm Steinitz

I've wrestled with an alligator—tussled with a whale—handcuffed lightning—thrown thunder in jail—last night I murdered a rock—injured a stone—hospitalized a brick—I'm so mean I make medicine sick. - Mohamed Ali

Sweat + sacrifice = success. -Unknown Author

Grace under pressure. -Ernest Hemingway

"Morituri te Salutamus" Traditional salute given by gladiators to the giver of the games. Translates into English as "we who are about to die salute you."

Fear of pain is worse than pain itself. -Unknown Author

Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur

You can't fake endurance.  -Marco Lala

Pain is a relative concept -Tim Walk

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. -Unknown Author

Move faster! -Morgan Freeman to Kevin Costner in Robin Hood.

That which does not kill me only makes me stronger. -Unknown Author

Pain is weakness leaving the body. -Unknown Author

There is no shame in fighting for that which is important.
It's not the belt that gives the champion respect, but the champion that gives the belt respect. -Shane Douglas

If you are coming, then COME ON!! -Unknown Author

First, you're the nail, then you get to be the hammer. -Unknown Author

The most spiritual human beings—if we are to assume are the most courageous; experience by far the worst tragedies. But it is for this that they honor life—because it pits its greatest opposition against them. -Nietzsche.

Pain is your friend. -Unknown Author

The best thing about pain is that it lets you know that you are still alive. -Unknown Author

It's what the champion does that makes him a champion... It's what the other guy doesn't do, that makes him a coward. -Constantine "Cus" D'Amato

It is better to regret something you have done than to regret something that you have not done. -Unknown Author

It's not the critic who counts. Not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by blood, sweat, and dust; who strives valiantly but errs and comes short again and again because there is no human endeavor without shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms - the great devotions; and who, if he wins, knows the triumphs of high achievement and who, if his efforts are checkered by defeat, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -Teddy Roosevelt

Success is traveling from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm -Churchill

Pain is temporary, Pride is forever.  -Unknown Author

Hold till cold.  -Unknown Author

My dream is to become your worst nightmare. -Unknown Author

Doubt not to reap, if thou canst bear to plough. -Judith Madan

We will either find a way, or we will make one. -Hannibal

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