"Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers."

-- Marijane Meaker

#Winning Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 12, 2013
“I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.”

Source : Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com
“For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.”
“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”
“We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (2000). “Days and Nights of Love and War”, p.175, Pluto Press
“When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.”
“It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.”
“I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."”

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