Taking note of the good things
Posted in Quotes on Oct 9th, 2007
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw
Who we are and what we become starts long before the habits that encompass what we do each day. What we allow to fill out minds eventually [...]
Posted in Quotes on Sep 26th, 2007
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
– Abraham Lincoln
We all fail at various things on a regular basis; the question is what we do about it. The other day while filming a pee wee football game, our quarterback made a mistake and received a [...]
Posted in Quotes on Sep 13th, 2007
“If one advances confidentially in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. “
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a big believer in the value of work, but work without a goal, direction and vision will often leave you working [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jul 24th, 2007
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
– Anonymous
This one tickled my funny bone this morning. I realized I hadn’t posted a good quote recently and thought this one was more than appropriate. I could look for a serious application of this thought, but I figure I’ll leave it for what [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jun 25th, 2007
A person who is successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that unsuccessful people will not do.
–Dexter Yager
As I suggested in the previous post on getting up early to take advantage of the productive “Golden Hours” of the day, there are things you can do that others are unwilling to [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jun 21st, 2007
Precarious Fun
This last weekend I happened by a mountain bike show in front of a local bike shop. My family was with me, so I thought I would stop and see the show. The kids loved it, and they were able to even meet the riders in the shop.
Being the photo geek that I [...]
Posted in Quotes on Jun 1st, 2007
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to live is wisdom.
- William A. Ward
It is easy to recognizing something as a good thing, smile and move on. To actually put that principle into action in your life is an entirely different thing. This quote was a good reminder for me today. [...]
Posted in Quotes on May 18th, 2007
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
I enjoy researching good quotes to post each day. In the process of my research I read many good ones in search of whatever strikes [...]
Posted in Quotes on May 17th, 2007
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
–Vincent Van Gogh
Great things of course can be read to mean things that are remembered for generations to come; but I like to apply this quote to even the great things we accomplish in every day life. Achievements of [...]
Posted in Quotes on May 8th, 2007
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Sir James M. Barrie
I enjoyed finding this quote as I think it is well put, perhaps better than the more known/popular version
Behind every great man there’s a great woman
You may [...]
