Vincent Thomas Lombardi is arguably the greatest football coach of all time, and is on the short list of history’s greatest coaches, regardless of sport. His ability to teach, motivate and inspire players helped turn the Green Bay Packers into the most dominating NFL team in the 1960s.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.
Easter Sunday Definition: An annual church festival commemorating Christ’s resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask. “The day …
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"All men by nature desire knowledge." -- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysics
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince." -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
“Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” — From the movie, ‘Shawshank Redemption’ “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, ‘Wait and hope’.” — Alexandre …
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-- By Rick Beneteau
Routinely, I rise out of bed before the birds, and watch the sunlight flood my office every morning. See, I love this time of day! But what I don't love is being rudely rousted out of a deep sleep before my normal rise and shine time, and every day for the past few months I have been.
-- by Jim Rohn
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of your fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you've read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o'clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won't need to live in fear of it.
-- By Hong Min Zou*
IN GOD WE TRUST
My fellow countrymen, what has happened to our great nation since my death? My heart is heavy over what I see. What has happened to the presence of God, to the sanctity of life, the family, equality of man, the values that our fellow countrymen died for so gloriously on the field of battle?
Success
By Bessie Anderson Stanley (1904)
Inspire 21 Inspiring Words for the 21st Century
