• I am proud of the goals that we as a team have set and accomplished. It is hard to understand why we receive little respect from the school that we have worked so hard to represent with much pride and dignity
• The heart and soul of every performer is fueled by the desire to take the emotion out of the crowd and replace it with the fury of the best performance of their lives
• That which brings you greatest pain will also bring you greatest pleasure
• Guard members are like family
• Colorguard takes a lot of strength and time and no one respects that
• Some people dream of worthy accomplishments: others stay awake and do them
• When you put your heart into something it can take you anywhere
• Colorguard...to those who understand no explanation needed...To those who don't no explanation is possible
• You can never possible catch a flag/rifle/sabre if you are always thinking of ways to drop it
• Share what you know, learn what you don't
• Practice does not make perfect...only perfect practice makes perfect
• Rehearse the same way you plan to perform, that way when you perform its just like rehearsal
• Dude, one day that sabre is gonna jump off the floor and slap you int the face!
• Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no cure for a big head
• Go us, we rule
• The door of guard is open wide, take a step and come inside
• SMILE!!! it's good for ya
• Is the guard ready
• Sometimes we have to put up with the rain, before we can see a rainbow
• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it
• If you don't put out you will never get good
• The next time you see somebody at the top of a mountain..remember, they didn't fall there
• The harder you work the harder it is to surrender
• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary
• Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation
• Never frown...even when your sad, you never know when someone will fall in love with your smile
• The judges want to see your beautiful flag work but they also want to see your beautiful faces too. SMILE!
• Make them so excited by your show they want to throw their babies on the field as a sacrifice!!
• Let's go Babies!
• We have what they want
• Once a guardie, always a guardie
• A guard that counts together stays together
• They say that necessity is the mother of invention...Well, colorguard is the mother of necessity
• The most important thing you'll wear today is your expression
• Smile...it improves your face value
• Is there life after practice?
• If you can't handle guard try cheerleading
• If it wasn't going to be hard, everyone would do it
• What's the point of going out there if they can't see your pretty faces
• No one said it would be easy, they said it would be worth it
• Love creates memories that are cherished and priceless, and makes its presence known from the inside to the outside
• If you're gonna hit 'em, hit 'em hard, and if it's the band director, hit 'em harder
• Toss High, Catch Hard, Dance Big, and SMILE your hearts out
• The end of the show is near....one more toss to go
• Give the judges head ;o)
• I'd rather be in a guard with no life, than in a life with no guard
• The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success
• Hide not your Talents; they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
• I find the harder i work, the more luck i seem to have
• They say losing builds character-well here's to less character
• You are late, on count 8
• A job is nice but interferes with my guard life
• To simply spin is not enough to be great- to perform what you spin is what makes you great
• Don't give anything less than your best, because that would be a sad thing to give
• Guard is the only public place where you can legally flip it, strip it, and whip it in public
• Dream...and as you dream, remember that only you can make your dreams come true; Reach...and as you reach, remember that success takes time, devotion, and sometimes a little disappointment; Believe...and as you believe, you will find reaching gets easier, setbacks get more manageable, and life becomes more meaningful. There's a wonderful dream waiting just for you..I know you can make it come true
• It has long since come to my attention that people of great accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things
• Being defeated is only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent
• Winterguard is Broadway on a basket ball court-only harder
• Never underestimate people in large groups with weapons
• Winterguard is fall guard without the backup band
• Don't wish upon a star, reach for one
• Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings-but so can colorguard
• There are 2 types of people in this world, those who spin and those who wish they could
• All you give is all you get so give it all you got
• Failure is the hardest teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson later
• Don't cry because its over, cry because you experienced it
• Success is a journey not a destination
• Don't look to the world for security: your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't take that away from you
• True Guardies know that "one more time" really means again
• There is no failure except no longer trying
• Ambition will only work for you if you have an unending supply of it
• If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it
• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success
• If you always reach for the stars you will always hold your head high
• The secret of success is consistency of purpose
• Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes
• Work like you don't need the money, love like you never been hurt, dance like everybody's watching
• It's important to be a go-getter. But it's even more important to know what it is you want to go and get
• If you focus on results, you will never change, if you focus on change, you will get results
• You've go to get up every morning with determination if your going to go to bed with satisfaction
• When you get to the end of your rope climb down and start again
• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them granted
• You miss 100% of the shots you never take
• There will be a time when you think you have finished, that will be the beginning
• A sense of humor of humor can hlp you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable
• Practice doesn't make perfect, nor is it supposed to, practice is about increasing your reporotire of recovering from our mistakes
• The next best thing to winning is losing, at least you've been in the race
• You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose
• If you want to have a good day, go out and do it! If you want to have a good show go out and do it!
• Love it, do it, live it, spin it
• Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done
• I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process
• I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked it, and I'm afraid of who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work-and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't (Luicile Ball)
• To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
• The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do
• Learning is discovering that something is possible
• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work
• You cannot make a commitment unless you accept it is a hoic you must make again and again (Christine Vwan)
• The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die
• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice
• The men who succeeds are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
• If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest
• Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly higher then if aimed at an object on a level with yourself
• Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty
• Success is for people who have found nothing noble enough at which to fail
• There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything
• Pain is temporary pride is forever
• Winning isn't everything. Winning and geting to rub their faces in it...that's everything :o)
• The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what the want at the moment
• How to succeed: try hard enough, How to Fail: try too hard
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning
• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity
• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat
• Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything
• When you win nothing hurts
• To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart
• Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement
• The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
• One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as to low
• There are two ways of meeting difficulties; you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory
• What isn't tryed wont work
• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things and who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success
• Instead of better late than never better never than late
• When people keep telling you that you can't do something, you feel the will to try it
• For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself and do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future
• Once you say you are going to settle for second, that's what happens to you
• Do it-Do it right-Do it right NOW!
• Failure is usually the line of least persistence
• Why not seize the please at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation
• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means
• It's ok to go down to defeat-as long as you get up and start again
• Inside of a mistake, ain't nothing wrogn with going down. It's staying down that's wrong
• The good news that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude
• Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected
• Don't let your achievement go to your head, and don't let your failure go too your heart
• To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory
• You go back to the gym and you just do it again & again until you get it right
• It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as t does to have succeeded
• Pitty costs nothing and ain't worth nothing
• If you can imagine it-you can achieve it. If you can dream it-you can become it.
• There's no way to understand how much it means if you're not involved in it
• When thinking wont cure fear, action will
• This is not a dress rehearsal this is IT
• One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
• Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is.
• The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.
• To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.
• If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
• Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
• I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days.
• Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
• Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
• Inches make a champion.
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
• You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . .. Confidence makes the difference.
• Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
• You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
• Whether you think you can or think you can't--you are right.
• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent...
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• "Whatever you do, don't give up.  Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch.  I've known some great bitchers in my time.  With some it's a passion, with others an art."--Molly Ivins
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared. George Allen (1922 - 1990) Pro football coach
• Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second. Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913 -1983)Football coach
• Their not "poles", their FLAGS! Their not "swords", their SABRES! Their not "guns", their RIFLES! We don't "twirl", we SPIN! We don't "throw", we TOSS!! GET IT RIGHT OR GET OUT OF MY FACE!!! ==  
• "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."--Anon.
• "We only do well the things we like doing."--Colette
• "Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own."--Jacqueline Brisken
• "Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced."--Margaret Truman
• "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."--Margaret Thatcher
• The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Red Sanders
• Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• They are able because they think they are able. Vergil
• "yeah we get to do it again we're getting better!!!"
• Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.-- Robert Townsend
• "Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy."--Jennie Jerome Churchill
• "No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You."--Edgar Watson Howe
• "If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag."--Anon.
• "Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized."--Francis R. Havergal
• "Don't let other people tell you what you want."--Pat Riley
• "We are what we believe we are."--Benjamin N. Cardozo
• Acceptance of what happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune."--William James
• "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.--Anon.
• "You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk."--Rosalynn Carter
• "One never knows what each day is going to bring.  The important thing is to be open and ready for it."--Henry Moore
• "You cannot plan the future by the past."--Edmund Burke
• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."--Bill Cosby
• "A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something."--Anon.
• "In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." -- O. Carl Simonton
• "First things first, second things never."--Shirley Conran
• "Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."--Sara Caldwell
• "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."--Albert Einstein
• "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am ale to change it in positive ways."--Maxine Hong Kingston
• So long as there's breath in me,that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. Og Mandino (1923 - 1996) Writer
• Everyone starts from scratch, but not everyone keeps on scratching!
• "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."--Pearl S. Buck
• "Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away."--William L. Sullivan
• "I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."- Charles H. Mayo (1865 - 1939( (JFN142414@aol.)
• "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."-- Alfred North Whitehead
• "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."-- Swedish proverb
• "Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.-- Robert C. Gallagher
• "Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death." --Betty Bender
• "If a man harbors any sort of fear, it . . . makes him landlord to a ghost." -- Lloyd Douglas
• "Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."-- Kate Seredy
• You win not by chance but by preparation. Roger Maris (1934 - 1985)Baseball Player
• A competitor will find a way to win.  Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder.  Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.Nancy Lopez Golfer
• "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."  --Anna Freud
• "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."--Paul Sweeney
• "What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do."  --Anon.
• "I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsure again.  That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged."  --Connie Chung
• "Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."--Seneca
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery,and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present. -Unknown
• "The impossible is often the untried."--Jim Goodwin
• "Silence is one of the hardest things to refute."--Josh Billings
• "My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."--Peter Drucker
• "There is no substitute for hard work."--Thomas Edison
• "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!--Teddy Roosevelt
• "From self alone expect applause."--Marion L. Burton
• Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale Turner  
• "Some leaders are born women."--United Nations conference slogan
• "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."--Elbert Hubbard
• "To do two things at once is to do neither."--Publius Syrus
• "Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."--Andrew Carnegie
• "Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any."--Plato
• "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "If you can't accept losing, you can't win."--Vince Lombardi
• "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.  Putting off a hard think makes it impossible."--George C. Lorimer
• It's not how many times you mess up-it's how well you recover from it Nonameddemon@aol.com  
• "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."  --John F. Kennedy
• "Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them."  --Madame C. J. Walker
• "The key to change . . . is to let go of fear."--Rosanne Cash
• "Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work."  --Peter Drucker
• "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."--Christopher Morely
• "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."  --William Feather
• "Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed."  --Charles de Montesquieu
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there. -- Harvey Mackay
• Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. Hugs4Hitz@aol.com
• Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit Hugs4Hitz@aol.com
• "love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries" - Corita Kent-SKATELJ@aol.com  
• "Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake."--Robert Moses
• "Fear is a fine spur."--Irish proverb
• "Necessity is the mother of taking chances."--Mark Twain.
• "One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action . . . which bring results."--Florence Nightingale
• "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."--Stanley Kubrick
• "We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them."--Abigail Adams
• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.-- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
• "The time is always right to do what is right."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."--Robert Louis Stevenson
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."--Eleanor Roosevelt
• "To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing."--Janet Erskine Stuart
• "Deep faith eliminates fear."--Lech Walesa
• "The work will teach you how to do it."--Estonian proverb
• "I learn by going where I have to go."--Theodore Roethke
• "It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it."--Baltasar Gracian
• "Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world."--Robert Hillyer
• "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."--Anon.
• "Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."--Gail Sheehy
• "There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent.  With man-made talent you have to work very hard.  With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."--Pearl Bailey
• "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."--May Sarton
• "If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."--Ben Nicholas
• "If at first you don't succeed, you're running above average."--M. H. Alderson
• "Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers."--Agnes Thornton
• "To remain young one must change."--Alexander Chase
• "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• "The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."--Nick Seitz
• "Nice guys finish last."--Leo Durocher
• "Without victory there is no survival!"--Winston Churchill
• Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. ---Bobby Knight College basketball coach
• Amateurs practice until they can get it right; professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
• Don't pray for a lighter burden. Pray for a stronger back.
• "Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for uccess."--Dale Carnegie
• "All we are asked to bear we can bear."--Elizabeth Goudge
• "The burden is equal to the horse's strength."--The Talmud
• "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."--George C. Scott
• You stop being average the day you decide to become a Champion, because the average person won't make that decision.---Tom Hopkins
• "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."--Samuel Johnson
• "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• "We talk on principle, but we act on interest."--Walter Savage Landor
• *Born to toss....hope to catch*
• The beginning is half of every action."--Greek proverb
• Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart. ---Pat Riley Pro basketball coach
• People always ask, "How did you succeed?" Simply put, chose not to fail. ---Xernona Clayton Business executive
• "Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much."--Joan Collins
• "Life well spent is long." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
• "Perseverance, my dear Lord.  Keeps honour bright." ~ William Shakespeare
• "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." ~ W.E. Henley
• "Nil desperandum. Never despair."~Norace        
• "Early is on time, on time is late, and late is inexcusable"
• "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."--Will Rogers
• "Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."--Mignon McLaughlin
• "I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas."--Peter Drucker
• "There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final."--Phyllis Bottome
• "The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you."--Elmer Davis
• "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers."--James Thurber
• "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."--Tennessee Williams
• "The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."--Henri Fredric Amiel
• "The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter."--Anon.
• "When things go wrong, don't go with them."--Anon.
• "Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism."--G. K. Chesterton
• "An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it."--Laurence Peter
• "Two men look out through the same bars: / One sees the mud, and one the stars."--Frederick Langbridge
• "Life can be real tough...you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over." -Marie Osmon
• I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
• "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."--Mary Kay Ash
• "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."--Christina Baldwin
• "It is not enough to posses wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much."--Andre Maurois
• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger thanany material force, that thoughts rule the world.-
• "Act as if it were impossible to fail."--Dorothea Brande
• "One man is no more than another if he does no more than another."--Miguel de Cervantes
• "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."--Queen Christina, of Sweden
• He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. --Book of Proverbs Chapter 11, verse 29
• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have few virtues. --Abraham Lincoln
• The world acquires value only through its extremes andendures only through moderation; extremists make the worldgreat, the moderates give it stability.--Paul Valery  
• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.--Napolean Bonaparte
• "What you will do matters. All you need is to do it."--Judy Grahn
• "In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time."--Anon.
• "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."--William James
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.--Abraham Lincoln Surfnchic02@aol.com
• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.--B.C. Forbes here is another!!
• Love those who love you while they are alive.--Rael Surfnchic02@aol.com
• Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.--James Russel Lowell Surfnchic02@aol.com
• "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."--Clare Booth Luce
• "To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time.'"--Dr. Smiley Blanton
• "Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom."--Sir Bayle Roche
• "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."--Wendell Phillips
• "Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead."--Edith Johnson
• Act as if it were impossible to fail.-- Dorothea Brande
• You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.-Jonathan Swift -- Surfnchic02@aol.com
• To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing atree to catch a fish.--Ancient Chinese Proverb -- Surfnchic02@aol.com
• "Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life … Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."--Joe Kapp
• "For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself."-Rita Mae Brown
• Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not wisdom Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love Love is not music; Music is the best.
• "Whatever's worth doing is worth doing well! It may be important, u never can tell! So no matter how hard it seems from the start, DO IT AND DO IT WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART!!!!!"
• Do what u love, love what u do...and do it all with a smile and a solid catch!
• "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one had reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington
• "Only those who dare, truly live."--Ruth Freedman
• "When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage."--Jewish proverb
• "He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune." --English proverb
• "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."--Jawaharlal Nehru
• Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.--Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)
• "Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."--Dorothy Sarnoff
• It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered."--Michael Harrington
  
• "Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils."--Warren G. Harding
• "There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'"--Carrie Fisher
• Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.--Karl Weick
• "There is no 'I' in teamwork, but there is a U in sUccess!!"
• "If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Anon

*NOTE some of these quotes were taken from a sister site ColorGuard Corner....and some of these were submitted from members of my Guard Quote a day email list.*