by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 22, 2024 | Chasing Your Dream, Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon 1893 – Midway Hotel – Kearney, Nebraska: Shortly before sunrise, hotel proprietor Orison Marden awoke to...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 1, 2024 | Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity, Perserverance
“Nothing is impossible to the determined woman.” Louisa May Alcott 1860 – Concord, Massachusetts: The Atlantic magazine editor, James Lowell had published a couple of short stories by 27-year-old schoolteacher Louisa May Alcott. He liked her writing. But a year...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 11, 2024 | Overcoming Adversity, Overcoming Obstacles, Rising Above Circumstances
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” Marie Curie 1885 – Warsaw, Poland. “Papa, it’s not fair,” cried Marie. “I am smarter than all the boys in my class. I graduated at the top of my class, but there is no need to apply to the University...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 4, 2024 | Long Shots, Overcoming Adversity, Perserverance
“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things that happened in my life, then I should say, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened.” Arthur Ashe December 1, 1975 – Grand Prix Masters Tennis – Stockholm, Sweden: The large crowd sat stunned....
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2024 | Never Give Up, Never Quit, Overcoming Adversity
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” Margaret Thatcher September 13, 1953 – Newport, Rhode Island: Newspapers dubbed it the wedding of the century. A photo of the newlyweds ran on the front page of the New York Times. Jacqueline Bouvier, a...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 23, 2023 | Getting Fired, Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity
“If I had not gotten fired from my job as head football coach at Arkansas, I never would have realized my dream of coaching football at Notre Dame and winning a National Championship.” Lou Holtz. Sunday, December 18, 1983 –...
