A good example is a lesson anyone can read. Anger is often more harmful than the injury that caused it. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. A person can run away from his troubles just as easily as he can run away from his shadow. Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. A winner is a person who asks questions and listens to the answers; a loser never listens. A wish is a desire without anyattempt to attain its end. Being the best means outrunning the rest. Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. Once you start worrying about what other people think of you you stop being yourself. Challenge your own mind -- stretch and exercise it like any other part of your body. Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices. Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it. Deciding whom you'll marry is the most important decision you'll make. Don't be content with being average. Average is a close to the bottom as it is to the top. Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart. Eagles we are not, but we can still fly. Our imaginations become our wings. The magnificent eagle is still just an eagle but we can soar as high and as far as our aspirations take us. Everyone is allowed an occasional failure -- except the skydiver, of course. Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. Other people may be there to help us, teach us guide us along our path but the lesson to be learned is always ours. Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is very costly. Failures are a normal part of life. They are not disasters. Few things are created and perfected at the same moment. Finding fault is easy. It's improving that's hard. Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back. Find one thing you do extremely well. Follow your dreams. Football players are the only people who can go anywhere by playing both ends against the middle. People always say to follow your heart but what they don't tell you is that just because you follow your heart it doesn't mean there'll be a happy ending. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll be among the stars. Forget mistakes. Organize victory out of mistakes. For problems, sweat is a good solvent. Golf is a sport that separates the men from the poise. Golfers are happiest when they feel below par. Good, better, best; never rest till good be better, and better, best. Good ideas, like pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. Good sportsmanship means being good losers. But it doesn't have to mean being perfect. Great visions often start with small dreams. Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of. Happiness involves working towards meaningful goals. Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself. He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. High expectations are the key to everything. How a person plays the game shows something of his character -- how he or she loses shows all of it. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. I believe that there's an athlete in all of us. Ideas are the great moving forces of history. If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. If it is to be, it is up to me. If there is larceny in a person, golf will bring it out. If we have our own "why" of life, we can bear almost any "how." If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. If you don't swallow praise, ti can't hurt you. If you give me a fish, I'll eat for a day. If you teach me to how to fish, I'll eat for a lifetime. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. Improvement begins with "I." Improvement counts, no matter how small. In golf, as in life... it's the follow-through that makes the difference. In gold, the proof is in the putting. In the game of life, someone has to warm the benches. Initiative is doing the right thing without being ordered to do it. It doesn't matter if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you don't keep on moving. It is hard to create a great thing suddenly. It is misery enough to have once been happy. It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy. It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. It's not who wins or loses; it is who gets the blame. It takes a lot of training to be an engineer, and it takes a lot of boating to be a sailor. Knock the T off can't. You can if you think you can. Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down. Like a cypress swamp whose trees persist and thrive for centuries, we can build special talents that help us persist and thrive in the an ever changing world. Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Love is a great beautifier. Luck may sometimes help; work always helps. Make an effort everyday to feel good about who you are and what you can be... Money changes people just as often as it changes hands. Money is a lousy means of keeping score. Morale is when your hand and feet keep on working when your head simply says it can't be done. Never let a day go by without a dream. No one ever excused his way to success. Nothing increases the size of fish like fishing all by yourself. Nothing is hard if you try. Nothing is worth more than this day. One loss doesn't make a season. One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. People fail because of lack of discipline. Praise should be directed at the performance not the person. Pro golfers realize that money can grow on trees. Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. Remembering is a dream that comes in waves. Remember when you were at your best? Now be there again. Simple solutions seldom are. Skill is stronger than strength. Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set. Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Success can be measured more by obstacles overcome when trying to reach success than plateaus reached. Success depends on your backbone not your wishbone. Success is getting up one more time than you fall down. Success is never final, and failure is never fatal. Success is not how high and fast you reach the top, but how high and fast you bounce back when you hit the bottom. Temper is what gets most of us into trouble, but pride is what keeps us there. The ability to beat the odds lies within us all. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. The best angle from which to approach any problem is the tryangle. The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. The expert in anything was once a beginner. The greatest mistake you can make is to be constantly fearful you will make one. The hardest thing in life to learn is which bring to cross and which to burn. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. The longer you keep your temper, the more it will improve. The miracle is this -- the more we share, the more we have. The most important six words: "I admit I made a mistake." The most important five words: "I am proud of you." The most important word: "We." The least important word: "I." The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin. The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. The reason golf is so popular is because it is the only game where you keep your own score. The secret of action is to begin. The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. The two best times to keep your mouth shut are when you're swimming and when you're angry. The work will teach you how to do it. The wrong way to make your way is to insist on having it. There are four ages of man: 1) when you believe in Santa Claus, 2) when you don't believe in Santa Claus, 3) when you are Santa Claus, 4) when you look like Santa Claus. There is no failure save in giving up. There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit. There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him. To achieve all that's possible we must attempt the impossible -- to be as much as we can be we must dream of being more. To belittle is to be little. To be successful, you have to keep moving. After all, no one stumbles on something sitting down. To succeed -- do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. Triumph -- umph added to try. Use it or lose it. Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. We are the architects of our own fortunes, and our happiness depends, in the end, on ourselves. We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. We cannot do everything at once; but we can do something at once. We can't all be shining examples, but we can at least twinkle a little. We heard of a man who decided not to procrastinate anymore -- but he never got around to it. We often don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. We see possibilities in others, but do we ever dream of the possibilities within ourselves? What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. What I truly value -- I do. When success turns a person's head, he is facing failure. When you play golf you are locked in combat with your own worst enemy -- yourself. Winners believe they can win. Winners concentrate on winning. Losers concentrate on getting by. You can let bad times make you bitter -- or better. You can't hug your kids too much. You don't have to have the lead if you have the heart to come from behind. You have to keep jumping to know when you are jumping at opportunity. You need to reach a point of accepting you can't be everything you want ot be. You rarely succeed unless you have fun doing it. You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits, and don't mind being contradicted. Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. Creativity is the absence of a frame of mind. Music is the language of the soul.