MOTIVATION: "PRIDE & DISCIPLINE"

• The first quality of a commander is a cool head, which will judge things in a true light. He should not let himself be dazed by good or bad news. - Napoleon 1769-1821
• Audace, audace, toujours audace. Daring, daring, always daring. - Fredrick the Great of Germany 1712-1786

• “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, involve me and I will understand”. - Benjamin Franklin

• Boldness be my friend. Arm me audacity! - Shakespeare 1564-1616

• Every difficult situation into which you are sometimes thrown has some kind of opening somewhere.

• Putting together a training program is liking putting together a jigsaw puzzle and the pieces are always changing shape.

• My goodness, how can you work to the best of your ability unless you have someone or something to whom you are loyal? Only then do you gain peace and an increasing ability to perform at your highest level.
• Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in producing one's individual best and even more so in producing a team's best.
• For success, either individually or for your team, there must be a level of friendship. It is a powerful force that comes from mutual esteem, respect, and devotion.
• Industriousness? I mean very simply that you have to work and work hard. There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile things come only from work.
• You cannot function physically or mentally unless your emotions are under control. That is why I did not engage in pre-game pep talks to stir emotions to a sudden peak.
• What is competitive greatness? It's being at your best when your best is needed. It's enjoying the challenge when things become difficult, even very difficult. True competitors know it's exhilarating to be involved in something that's very challenging. They don't fear it. They seek it. Is it fun to do that which is ordinary, easy, simple, something anyone can do? Not at all. Competitors love that challenge. They know it offers the chance to produce their very finest. It brings forth their competitive greatness.

•  If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
• The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

•  A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.

• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
• When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old we get stuck.
• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
• There is no security in following the call to adventure.
• A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think."

• We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
• What we are familiar with we cease to see.
• Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous. When experiencing such fears, the conscious mind tries first of all to control the unconscious by repression. When it cannot be repressed, it rebels. When it rebels, it may lead either to madness or to life.
• You see we make everything rigid and it's all out of fear; we make these rigidities and then we can't live in them and we suffocate in them. ... to get security we give up our freedom.
• You should not give anybody the power to decide what is right and wrong in your creativity.
• If we could but make friends with our inner selves, come to terms with our own darkness, then there would be no trouble from without.
• In wanting to protect ourselves, we often really entomb ourselves.
• But I think the greatest problem we have -- and I'm sure you have it too -- is the fear of someone reading over our shoulders, of someone passing judgment on our secret selves.
• Life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale.
• The important thing is to set the passions free.
• I mastered the mechanisms of life the better to bend it to the will of the dream.
• Neurosis, sickness, the malady consists in remaining fixed in a trend of thoughts which is destructive, a wallowing in all the negative, frustrating aspects of one's life. For example, dwelling on what one cannot obtain, on one's defeats, on a desire for unlimited power.
• We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
• We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
• No one can live with only a clinical, psychological, or historical vision of the world. There must be a capacity to recreate, renovate, renew.
• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
• People always blame external circumstances for their disintegration.