Decide What's Important...

Not everything that counts can be counted, 

and not everything that can be counted counts.

~Albert Einstein

Destination...New View!

“My destination is no longer a place, 


rather a new way of seeing”. 

~Marcel Proust

Mind Y o u r Mind...

You can chain me, 

you can torture me, 

you can even destroy this body, 

but you will never imprison my mind. 

~Gandhi

CONTROL!

"The measure of a man's estimate 

of your strength 

is the kind of weapons he feels

 that he must use 

in order to hold you fast 

in a prescribed place."

~ Harold Whitman

Intention(s)...Right or Wrong

“What

you see

depends on

what you’re looking for.”

~Unknown


(the walls are made out of sea shells)

Your character describes who you are to others...

“Winning is a habit.  Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs.  Watch your beliefs, they become your words.  Watch your words, they become your actions.  Watch your actions, they become your habits.  Watch your habits, they become your character.” 

~Vince Lombardi

The Early Years-

Lombardi was born in Brooklyn to Enrico "Harry" Lombardi and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo on June 11, 1913.  Harry's mother and father, Vincenzo and Michelina emigrated from Salerno, Italy. Mattie's father and mother, Anthony and Loretta, emigrated from an area several miles east of Salerno. Henry had three siblings and Matilda had twelve siblings. Vince would be the oldest of five children, Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The entire Lombardi and Izzo clan settled in Sheepshead Bay.

Matilda's father, Anthony, opened up a barber shop in Sheepshead Bay prior to the turn of the century. At about the time of Lombardi's birth, Harry, and his brother, Eddie, opened a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District. Throughout the Great Depression, Harry's shop did well and his family prospered.  Lombardi grew up in an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood. 

 To read more about this inspiring man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi

Faith...

“Faith sees a beautiful blossom

in a bulb,

a lovely garden

in a seed,

 and a giant oak

in an acorn.”

~William Arthur Ward 

Born and reared in Louisiana, Dr. Ward entered the United States Army as a private in 1942 and rose to the rank of captain. Part of his four years of military service was spent in the Philippines.

READ MORE HERE:  http://quotes-of-wisdom.eu/en/author/william-arthur-ward/biography

Learn from everything!

There is something to be learned 
from every experience, 
every challenge, 
every victory, 
and every defeat.  
Learn from everything.  

~Kim Franklin-Magana  

Virtue...

Virtue, 

like art, 

constantly deals with what is hard to do, 

and the harder the task the better the success.

~Aristotle

An exerpt from Wikipedia:
Virtue is a behavior showing a high moral standard and is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards. Virtues can be placed into a broader context of values. Each individual has a core of underlying values that contribute to his or her system of beliefs, ideas and/or opinions (see value in semiotics). Integrity in the application of a value ensures its continuity and this continuity separates a value from beliefs, opinion and ideas. In this context, a value (e.g., Truth or Equality or Creed) is the core from which we operate or react. Societies have values that are shared among many of the participants in that culture. An individual's values typically are largely, but not entirely, in agreement with his or her culture's values.
Individual virtues can be grouped into one of four categories of values:

• Ethics (virtue - vice, good - evil, moral - immoral - amoral, right - wrong)
• Aesthetics (unbalanced, pleasing)
• Doctrinal (political, ideological, religious or social beliefs and values)
• Innate/inborn