“Seek your calling even if you don’t know what it means. If you are following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, and the disappointments will be fuel.” Phil Knight 1962 – Portland, Oregon: “I didn’t send you to...
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary December 2011, Mt. Kilimanjaro Base Camp, Nalemoru, Tanzania: The porters and guides gawked and giggled. They called her Mama Kubwa, Swahili for ‘big woman.’ At 300 pounds, Kara Whitely...
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” Wilma Rudolph June 1940 – Clarksville,...
“Extraordinary people do not give up because obstacles are in their way, they persist without exception.” Andy Andrews 1989 – Los Angeles, California: The intercom blared, “D’wayne Edwards, please go to Robert Greenburg’s office.”...
“Each time we face what man has said cannot be done, we face a choice: will we choose to accept the seemingly impossible? Or will we choose to defy it? It is those who make the latter, tougher decision who inspire us to attempt the impossible.” ...
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the square pegs in round holes – the ones who see things differently. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs 2002 –...