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.

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

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -– Albert Ellis

Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them. –Author Unknown

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
–Sydney Smith

“Do not wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it.” –Unknown

“We become what we think about all day long.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. –Wayne Gretzky