Louisiana Baseball Coaches Association: Inspiration

Quotes to encourage and inspire

Contents



  1. Achievement

  2. Attitude

  3. Belief

  4. Choice

  5. Circumstances

  6. Confidence

  7. Miscellaneous




Achievement


No Pain, no gains.    Samuel Smiles


There is no success without hardship.    Sophocles


All things are difficult before they are easy.    Thomas
Fuller


I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position
that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while
trying to succeed
.    Booker T. Washington


No pain, no palm;  no thorns, no throne;  no gall, no
glory;  no cross, no crown.
    William Penn


The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the
struggle.  The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought
well.
    Baron Pierre De Coubertin


To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I
also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne. 
  
Bible, Revelation 3:21


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Attitude


What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within
him.   
Louis L. Mann


Experience is not what happens to a man;  It is what a man does with
what happens to him.
    Aldous Huxley


No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own
mind...The problem is not other people;  It is your reaction. 
  
Vernon Howard


No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.   
Eleanor Roosevelt


You cannot always control circumstances.  But you can control your
own thoughts.
    Charles E. Popplestone


It is not the position but the disposition.    J. E.
Dinger


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Belief


Everything is possible to him that believes.    Bible,
Mark 9:23


Whether you think you can or think you can't-you are right.   
Henry Ford


They can conquer who believe they can.    John
Dryden


The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is
often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.
   
Richard M. DeVos


For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.    Bible,
Proverbs 23:7


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Choice


The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to
choose.   
J. Martin Kohe


The one thing over which you have absolute power is your own
thoughts.  It is this that puts you in a position to control your own
destiny.   
Paul G. Thomas


It is always your next move.    Napoleon Hill


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Circumstances


That we are here is proof that we ought to be here.    Ralph
Waldo Emerson


What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.    Earl
Nightingale


A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.    Ralph
Waldo Emerson


You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your
lips.   
Oliver Goldsmith


Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us.  What a man does, tells us
what he is.   
F. D. Huntington


The actions of men are the best interpreters of their
thoughts.   
John Locke


You will know them by their fruits.    Bible,
Matthew 7:16


A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.    Ralph
Waldo Emerson


By the work one knows the workman.    Jean De La
Fontaine


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Confidence


There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance,
and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we
undertake.   
Orison Sweet Marden


Confidence does not come out of nowhere.  It's a result of
something....hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and
dedication.   
Roger Staubach


For years I have been accused of making snap judgments.  Honestly,
this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I
express, perhaps to flippantly, are the result of years of thought and
study.   
George S. Patton


Be prepared!    Boy Scout Motto


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Miscellaneous


Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.    Biggie
Munn, Michigan State Football


A human being doesn't know how far he can go until he's pushed himself to
the limit.   
Bob Mattic, Toronto Blue Jays


The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's
determination.   
Tommy Lasorda, Los Angeles Dodgers


Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can
do.   
John Wooden, UCLA Basketball


If your work is not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with
enthusiasm.   
John Mazur, New England Patriots


Enthusiasm is everything.  It must be as taut and vibrating as a
guitar.   
Pele, Soccer Legend


 


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