The Victor
By C.W. Longenecker

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
–Leo Tolstoy

Determination drives us to
Exceed our expetations while continuing to
Thrive within the challenges presented.
Exertion put forth
Rationalises our interior
Motives, while continually
Igniting the needed thrust to
Navigate to our
Astronomic hopes and dreams.
To sustain our determination we need to
Inspect and reflet on
Our past while
Negleting our doubts to charge to our endeavours.

–Michael John Steele

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. –Jim Rohn

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. –Zig Ziglar

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter. –Lee Iacocca

Thinking

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

–Dr. Walter D. Wintle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. –Martin Luther King Jr.