Excellence Is Never An Accident ~ by Derric Johnson
** EFFICIENCY is doing things right.
EFFECTIVENESS is doing right things.
EXCELLENCE is doing right things right.
–
No matter what accomplishments you make… somebody helps you.
~ Althea Gibson
–
Conscience is what hurts… when everything else feels good.
–
Experience is not the best teacher… it is the only teacher.
–
If you want to feel rich… just count all of the things you have… that money can’t buy.
–
Always remember that the best things in life aren’t things.
–
If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided you don’t want to grow anymore.
–
The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
–
Creativity is finding new things… or expressing old truths in new ways.
~ Roger vol Oech
–
What the caterpillar calls “the end”… the butterfly calls “the beginning.”
–
One of the greatest enemies that we can ever face in life… is the illusion that there will be more time tomorrow than there is today.
–
When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim… improve yourself.
–
Reach for the possible… not just the expected.
–
You are young at any age… if you’re planning for tomorrow.
–
It is true that the present is colored by the past… it is also true we can choose the colors of the future.
–
To understand the mind of a person, look at what he has already achieved.
To understand the heart of a person, look at what he aspires yet to do.
–
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift
–
About the best use I can find for life… is to spend it on something that will outlast me.
–
Regret of the past and fear of the future… are twin enemies of the soul.
–
Without inspiration… we would perish.
~ Walt Disney
–
The one who says it cannot be done… should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
–
If there be any truer measure of a man than what he does… it must be what he gives.
–
There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
~ John Wooden
–
To forgive calls upon your love… To forget calls upon your strength.
–
Ask less often, “What’s in it for me?” and ask more often, “What’s in me for it?”
~ Dr. John Ed Mathison
–
Success can be another form of failure… if we forget what our priorities are.
–
Fame is a vapor,
Popularity an accident,
Riches take wings.
Only one thing endures… CHARACTER.
–
He who makes a mistake and fails to correct it… makes another.
–
We are paid best for the things we do for nothing.
–
He who criticizes is seldom forgiven.
He who encourages is seldom forgotten.
–
The difference between an error and a mistake…
depends on how long it takes you to correct the error.
–
If you try to improve another person by setting a good example… then you are really improving two people.
–
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing… while others judge us by what we have already done.
–
There is no substitute for intelligence…
The only thing that comes close to it is silence.
–
Everybody is good for something….
Even the worst of us can serve as a bad example.
–
You can’t control the length of your life… but you can control the width and depth.
–
Pride makes us do things well… but it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
–
Improvement begins with “I”.
–
Smart people believe only half of what they hear… smarter people know which half to believe.
–
If you don’t have time to do it right… when will you have time to do it over?
–
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly… It always comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
~ Henry Ford
~
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
–
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
–
People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true.
My answer is… you do it by working.
~ Walt Disney
–
There’s no right way to do the wrong thing.
–
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~ Roy Disney
–
Success is getting what you want…
Happiness is liking what you get.
–
Success comes in cans… failure in cant’s.
–
Nothing is all wrong. Even a clock that has stopped running… is right twice a day.
–
When you hear people say that life is hard, always ask them, “Compared to what?”
–
Wisdom is knowing what to do next… skill is knowing how to do it… and virtue is doing it.
–
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
~ Bobby Unser
–
If at first you succeed… try to hide your astonishment.
–
* Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi
–
Coming together is beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
~ Henry Ford
–
* You make a living from what you get… but you make a life from what you give.
–
Life is too short to do everything necessary to live longer.
–
It doesn’t matter if you win or lose… until you lose.
–
It’s a funny thing about life… if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
–
Resolve to perform what you ought… perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
–
Do not let what you cannot do… interfere with what you can do.
~ John Wooden
–
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein
–
Only brag about what you’re going to do tomorrow…
when you did what you were going to do yesterday.
–
The quickest way to become an old dog… is to stop learning new tricks.
–
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with… but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
–
Life can only be understood backwards… but it must be lived forwards.
–
Those who make the worst use of their time… are the first to complain of its shortness.
–
There is a difference between perseverance and obstinacy… one is a strong will and the other is a strong won’t.
–
The special secret of making dreams come true is summarized in four C’s.
Curiosity
Confidence
Courage
Constancy
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
~ Walt Disney
–
I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.
~ Jonathan Winters
–
Never confuse motion with action… and never confuse action with accomplishment.
–
The only successful substitute for work is a miracle.
–
Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions… they’re easier to handle than dumb mistakes.
–
Life is like riding a bicycle… you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
–
What’s the difference between school and life?
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
–
More people rust out than wear out.
–
Well done is better than well said.
~ Ben Franklin
–
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark… the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–
Years wrinkle the skin… but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
–
The world expects results. Don’t tell others about the labor pains… show them the baby.
–
The road to success is not doing 1 thing 100% better… but doing 100 things 1% better.
–
* Be early if you’re a bird… and late if you’re a worm!
–
