Life

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. " -- Vince Lombardi

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." -- Vince Lombardi

"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." -- Vince Lombardi

Fuel others with positive energy.

By Jon Gordon

With so many people in the world telling us we can't succeed, we need to hear people telling us we can.

I remember my high school English teacher telling me not to apply to Cornell University because they wouldn't accept me and even if they did I wouldn't be able to do the work. (It's funny that I'm a writer now).

 By Akiane Kramarik, child-prodigy

The Child Writes of the Narrow Road.
Few are the ones finding it.

SOMEDAY, when the kids are grown, life will be different. The memo pad on my refrigerator door will read, "Afternoon at hairdresser," or, "browse through art gallery," or, "start golf lessons"... instead of, "pediatrician at 2:00," or, "Cub Pack Meeting.

"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be wiser than others, if you can, but do not tell them so." -- Lord Chesterfield

"Teachers affect eternity. They never know where their influence stops." -- Henry Adams

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." -- Diogenes Laertius

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." -- Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

-- By Dr. Stan Satterfield

-- By Charles Sykes, from his book "Dumbing Down our Kids"

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

-- Author Unknown

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby... that somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "normal" is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct... that somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.

Somebody said being a mother is boring... that somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.