Wednesday, December 13, 2006

dec18

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
16th President of the United States





"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
American novelist





"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us,

and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th president of the United States






"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're

doing better than you've ever done before."


Bonnie Blair (1964 - )
Olympic speed skater
U.S. history’s most decorated winter athlete





"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

Annie Dillard (1945 - )
American author and Nobel Prize recipient

dec17


"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)American poet

dec16

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
first woman in European history to
be elected prime minister

dec15

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player
currently holds the No. 3 spot for
the most home runs of all time with 714



"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

English Proverb

dec-14

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result."

Vince Lombardi
(1913-1970)
Hall of Fame football coach