Win The Life

When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned. - Frank Layden

 

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.- Gwyneth Paltrow

 

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.- Cathy Warner Weatherford

 

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.- Baltasar Gracian

 

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.- Harry S. Truman

 

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?- Jeanette Winterson

 

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.- Ann Richards

 

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.- Tyron Edwards

 

My heart is happy, my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.- Hilde Bigelow

 

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.- Rachel Carson

 

Examine the personality of the mother, who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.- Beata Rank

 

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.- Abraham Lincoln

 

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.- Charles H. Fowler

 

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.- Francesco Guicciardini

 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.- Mark Twain

 

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.- Plutarch

 

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.- Oliver Goldsmith

 

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.- Ernest Hemingway

 

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.- Paul D. Shafer

 

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.- Ben Johnson

 

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.- B. C. Forbes

 

Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.- Bernard Malamud

 

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.- Catherine Aird

 

A good example is the best sermon.- Anonymous

 

Children have more need of models than of critics.- Carolyn Coats

 

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.- Ayn Rand

 

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

 

Example has more followers than reason.- Christian Bovee

 

Example moves the world more than doctrine.- Henry Miller

 

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.- Edmund Burke

 

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.- Albert Schweitzer

 

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.- Maria Mitchell

 

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.- B. C. Forbes

 

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.- Sophia Loren

 

Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.- Alice Walker

 

Nothing is so infectious as example.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

There is a need for heroism in American life today.- Agnes Meyer

 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.- Mother Teresa

 

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.- Benjamin Franklin

 

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.- Mary Parker Follett

 

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.- William James

 

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.- Elizabeth Smart

 

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.- Eric Hoffer

 

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.- Cicely Tyson

 

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.- J. C. F. von Schiller

 

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.- Honore de Balzac

 

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.- Ben Johnson

 

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.- Henry S. Haskins

 

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.- Samuel Johnson

 

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.- Emily Post

 

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.- Publilius Syrus

 

Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.- Martin Vanbee

 

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.- H. G. Bohn

 

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.- Brendan Francis

 

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.- Publilius Syrus

 

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.- Talmud

 

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.- Dr. Joseph Collins

 

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?- Voltaire

 

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.- Catherine Aird