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Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
Madonnaborn 1958
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be⁠—in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose1941–2024
- Baseball
Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
PBPaul Boese
- Nature
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow1915–2005
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
DLDoug Larson1926–2017
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don’t know why I do things.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden1910–2010Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden1910–2010
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915