Gagler's Quote of the Day

November 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"There's no substitute for guts."

        - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence, when you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."

        - Walt Disney

"You find that you have piece of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a 100 percent effort that you gave - win or lose."

        - Gordie Howe

"To strive with difficulties and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

        - Samuel Johnson

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

        - George Eliot

"Ideas are, in truth, force."

        - Henry James

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."

        - Jesse Jackson

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

        - Lou Holtz

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

        - Francis Bacon

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."

        - Blaise Pascal

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

        - Eric Hoffer

"Failure is good. It's fertilizer."

        - Rick Pitino

"I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find someone you can beat."

        - Harvey Penick

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

        - Ross Perot

"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's okay. But you've got to shoot for something."

        - Robert Townsend

"Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become fact."

        - Norman Vincent Peale

"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn."

        - Tom Landry

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use.  Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."

        - Lee Iacocca

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill."

        - Winston Churchill

"I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one."

        - Isiah Thomas

"Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one."

        - Harry S. Truman

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

        - Sir Isaac Newton

"Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there."

        - Bo Jackson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

        - Theodore Roosevelt

"For they conquer who believe they can."

        - John Dryden

"I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."

        - J.C. Penney

"A good plan is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

        - General George S. Patton

"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."

        - Wendell Phillips