Before I Go,
There's Something I Want to Tell You

"When life's problems weigh you down, there is always someone there to help you in your time of need. Look up."

"⭐ Winners give you results. Losers give you excuses. ⭐"

"If you need help, don't be ashamed to raise your hand. There's always someone out there willing to give you a helping hand."

"You can't appreciate standing on top of the mountain until you've been at the bottom of the valley."

"My plan made sense to me. God's plan made sense of everything."

"When life brings you to your knees — you're in a perfect position to ask for help."

"Angels come in many different sizes, shapes, and genders. They're everywhere."

"A world without hope is not a world at all — just a place people pass through."

"Without hope, the sun still rises — but nobody bothers to look up."

"Strip a man of everything and he can survive. Strip him of hope and there is nothing left to save."

"Hope is not a luxury — it is the oxygen of the human spirit."

"Hope is the last light to go out — and when it does, everything goes dark."

"You can live without many things, but nobody truly lives without hope."

"Faith is simple. It's just trusting. The hard part is letting go enough to do it."

"Faith is not knowing the answer. It's trusting the one who does."

"Faith is not knowing the full path — it's trusting the one who laid it."

"You don't need to see the whole staircase, just enough light for the next step."

"Faith doesn't remove the mountain — it gives you the courage to climb it."

"Faith is the anchor that holds when everything else is drifting."

"The one who walks by faith doesn't always know the way, but never walks alone."

"The best things in my life never went according to plan — they went according to grace."

"Sometimes the life you didn't plan turns out to be better than the one you did."

"Angels don't come because you call them. They come when you need them."

"Angels don't check your schedule. They keep God's."

"Faith is not wishful thinking — it is confident waiting."

"I had a plan. God had a plan. Only one of us knew the whole story."

"I planned for where I wanted to go. God planned for where I needed to be."

"I mapped out my road. God knew the destination before I took the first step."

"My plan fit on paper. God's plan fit eternity."

"My plan had limits. God's plan had none."

"The fact that you question yourself means you care enough to get it right."

"Don't let the noise in your head drown out the truth in your heart."

"Doubt is not a stop sign — it's just a speed bump on the road to greatness."

"You were not brought this far to be defeated by your own mind."

"Just because I don't talk about my problems doesn't mean I don't have any."

"Quiet doesn't mean fine. It just means I've learned to carry it alone."

"Strength isn't the absence of pain. Sometimes it's just the decision not to show it."

"Check on your strong friends. They need it most and ask for it least."

"Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."

"Not everyone who is smiling is okay."

"We all have a chapter we don't read out loud."

"The heaviest loads are often carried by the people who never complain about the weight."

"Be patient with people. You only see what they show you — not what they carry home."

"Hope is not a strategy, but it sure is the fuel that keeps you going."

"Faith doesn't make things easy. It makes them possible."

"Every storm runs out of rain. Hold on."

"You don't have to have it all figured out today — just love 'em and show up. That's enough for now."

"Some days survival is the victory. Don't let anybody tell you different."

"Your babies don't need a perfect mama — they need a present one. You're already doing that."

"One step, one day, one diaper at a time. Don't give up — not for yourself, but for your kids."

"You're stronger than you feel right now, and braver than you know."

"You don't have to feel strong to be strong for them. Sometimes the acting is the doing."

"Hold the line for them today — you can fall apart in private, but not in front of the ones watching you for hope."

"Your kids don't need to see your fear. They need to see you keep standing — that's how they learn to stand too."

"Strength ain't the absence of breaking down — it's choosing when and where you let it show."

"You carry more than they know, and you're doing it so they don't have to carry it too."

"Even broken things can be mended — it just takes two hands and two hearts."

"You don't have to know where you're going. You just have to take the next right step."

"Confused about your future just means you're paying attention — the folks who never wonder are the ones who oughta."

"It's okay to not have it figured out. Nobody does — some folks are just better at pretending."

"Sometimes you don't find your calling. Sometimes it finds you."

"Sometimes your profession finds you — not the other way around."

"The path doesn't have to be clear for you to start walking it."

"When everything feels unbearable, you don't have to solve it all today. You just have to get through today."

"Sometimes the load doesn't get lighter. You just get stronger, or you get help. Either one will do."

"Sometimes not getting the job is the greatest thing that ever happened to you."

"Where you are today was always in the plan. It just wasn't in your plan."

"Isn't it funny — you want money now more to help those struggling friends who are suffering in silence more than anyone knows. And money might help a little, but it can't help them the way they really need."

"They need things money can't buy. They need you, as a caring friend."

"What I've learned in life is there's a lot of things I can't control. But I might could help a few people with some words that get them through some of the challenges we all go through."

"Silence isn't peace. Sometimes it's just where the pain learned to hide."

"You don't have to perform okay for people who actually love you."

"The mask gets heavy. You're allowed to take it off, even for a minute."

"Nobody drowns quietly on purpose. They just don't know how to ask for the rope."

"You've survived 100% of your worst days so far. That's not luck. That's you."

"Hurting in silence doesn't make you strong. Reaching out does."

"The bravest thing you'll do today might just be staying."

"You don't have to explain your pain to deserve help with it."

"Some people carry storms behind a smile that never gives them away."

"Asking for help isn't the white flag. It's the first step forward."

"You are allowed to not be okay and still be loved."

"The weight you're carrying was never meant to be carried alone."

"An obstacle is not a roadblock. It's a detour to your destination."

"The demons you don't face don't disappear. They just move in and redecorate."

"Fear is a liar — and it's been telling you the same lie so long you started to believe it."

"The prison with no bars is the hardest one to escape. But the door was never locked."

"What you don't confront controls you."

"The battle for your life is won or lost between your ears."

"Your mind will believe whatever you keep telling it. Tell it something better."

"The enemy inside is quieter than the enemy outside — and a whole lot more dangerous."

"The eyes don't lie. Look into them long enough and you'll see everything a person is trying not to say."

"The eyes are the window to the soul — and sometimes what's behind that window is screaming for help."

"A smile can hide almost anything. The eyes never quite finish the job."

"You can't heal what you won't reveal."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's deciding that something else matters more."

"The first step out of the darkness doesn't have to be a big one. It just has to be forward."

"You were not put here to just survive. You were put here to live."

"Purpose is the antidote to hopelessness. Find yours."

"Breaking free starts with believing you deserve to be free."

"You can't change what happened to you. But you have everything to say about what happens next."

"Fear grows in silence and dies in conversation."

"The heaviest chains are the ones nobody else can see."

"Helplessness is a feeling, not a fact. Don't confuse the two."

"The moment you decide you're worth fighting for — the fight gets easier."

"You've been carrying this alone long enough. Put it down. Ask for help. That's not weakness — that's wisdom."

"Grief is just love with nowhere to go."

"You don't get over loss. You get through it — and carry it differently over time."

"Missing someone is the price you pay for having loved them. It's worth it."

"The ones we lose never really leave — they just change addresses."

"Death ends a life. It doesn't end a relationship."

"There's no right way to grieve. There's just your way."

"Don't let anybody put a timetable on your grief. It moves at its own pace."

"Crying doesn't mean you're weak. It means you loved somebody."

"Grief comes in waves. Some days it's a ripple. Some days it knocks you flat. Both are normal."

"You don't have to be okay today. You just have to get through today."

"The best way to honor somebody you've lost is to live the kind of life they'd be proud of."

"Tell the stories. Say their name. Keep them in the room."

"They may be gone from your sight — but never from your heart."

"A person lives on as long as somebody remembers them with love."

"Grief is not the end of the story. It's just the hardest chapter."

"The sun still rises. Even after the worst nights. Especially after them."

"You will laugh again. You will feel joy again. That's not a betrayal — that's healing."

"Time doesn't heal everything. But it does give you more room to carry it."

"Heaven got a good one. We got the memories."

"They didn't leave us empty-handed. They left us full of everything they gave us."

"Some people leave footprints on your heart so deep that time can't wash them away."

"If love could have saved them, they would have lived forever."

"I am at the age where I am losing more friends than I am making. But I will never forget the ones I've lost."

"I will never forget the friends I've lost — and I'm still grateful for every new one God sends my way."

"Your darkest moment is not your final moment."

"The love you had for that person doesn't end. It just moves into a different room of your heart and stays there."

"Did you leave this world better than it was when you got here? The good ones usually answer that without being asked."

"It’s okay to not be okay — just don’t stay there alone."

"The ones who never ask for help usually need it most. Be the one who checks on them anyway."

"Some of the bravest people I know never said a word about what they were carrying."

"When you’ve run out of everything else — faith is still there. It was always going to be the last one standing."

"You don’t have to see the light at the end of the tunnel. You just have to keep walking toward it."

"Face your demons or your demons will always face you."

"Running from your problems is a race you’ll never win."

"Whatever you refuse to face owns you."

"I know you feel lonely, like nobody’s callin’ and nobody’d notice if you stopped answerin’ — but I noticed. And I’m tellin’ you, you matter."

"You keep waitin’ on somebody to check on you. Let this be that. I’m checkin’. You’re not alone."

"Loneliness feels like a life sentence. It’s not. It’s just a season, and seasons turn."

"If this is more than a lonely night — if it’s been weeks, or it’s gettin’ hard to see a way through — please talk to somebody. A friend, a pastor, a doctor. You don’t have to carry it alone, and you don’t have to earn the help. It’s already yours for the askin’."

"A child who knows they are loved will always find their way home."

"Even Sinners have a future, but even Angels have a past."

"Some folks are too embarrassed to ask where to find help — like pride's ever paid a single bill or fixed a single thing."

"You don't always have to fix it. Sometimes you just have to be there for it."

"There's no shame in not knowin' where to turn. The shame's in stayin' quiet so long that nobody gets the chance to help you."

"Askin' for help ain't weakness — it's just about the bravest thing a stubborn person'll ever do."

"Showing up is its own language. Sometimes it says more than words ever could."

"One of the greatest gifts God gave us is the ability to change."

"I've known plenty of men too embarrassed to ask directions to a place, let alone ask for help they really needed. Same foolishness, bigger stakes."

"Nobody hands out a badge for sufferin' quiet. Ask. Somebody out there's just waitin' on the chance to help you."

"Sometimes the greatest gift you can give a dear friend is just to be with them."

"Probably the first song I ever learned, and still the most important one: "Jesus loves me, this I know.""

"You've got a 401k for retirement. What's your plan for eternity? — Buddy Ray Spicer"

"Retirement lasts a few decades if you're lucky. Eternity lasts forever. Which deserves more of your attention? — Buddy Ray Spicer"

"Depression isn't a choice. But healing can be."

"Depression is not something you chose, but it is something you don't have to keep."

"Pride will help you stand tall. It won't help you heal. Know the difference."

"Ego protects your image. It doesn't protect your health."

"Sometimes the bravest thing pride can do is step aside."

"I can't solve your problem. But I can sit with you while you carry it."

"I am not qualified to help you. But I am qualified to care about you."

"This isn't a sermon. It's just one man telling another — I see you, and you matter."

"A lot of us aren't experts. We're just the friend who showed up, sat down, and stayed."

"Most of us have fought something nobody ever saw. That's what makes us qualified to sit with you in yours."

"This was never meant to be just for my friends. It's also for the ones I haven't met yet."

"What breaks your heart today might be what protects it tomorrow."

"Self-pity is so loud sometimes it drowns out the people who are trying to tell you they care."

"The thought that someone cares for you sometimes gets lost because you're buried in pity."

"Sometimes you are so busy looking at only your problems, you fail to see that someone else might could use some help."

"Many people are looking for something they don't know how to describe — and are too embarrassed to ask where to find it."

"The hardest search is the one where you don't even know what you're looking for — just that something's missing."

"Some pain isn't punishment. It's redirection."

"Pity has a way of making you feel alone even when you're not."

"Sometimes the wound teaches the lesson the warning never could."

"Time doesn't heal everything. But it does teach you how to carry it."

"The body gets tired. The mind can be trained. The spirit is what carries you when both give out."

"Sometimes you have to be brought to your knees, then slowly get back up — while very few even know it happened."

"The difference you make in other people's lives probably doesn't cost anything — except a little kindness."

"You don't need resources to make a difference. You just need to care enough to try."

"I can't promise I'm qualified to solve your situation. But I can promise you I'm qualified to care about it."

"Sometimes the comfort isn't in the solution. It's just knowing you're not the only one who's been there."

"Sometimes when you're dealing with a problem, it helps to hear that others have faced one too."

"Doubt is a slow poison. It doesn't kill you outright — it just keeps you from ever moving."

"Change doesn't erase who you are. Sometimes it just reveals who you're becoming."

"How you survive the bad things reveals everything about who you are."

"Being thankful for the good things won't make a bad situation happy. But be thankful for the good things anyway."

"It's never too early to dream and never too late to start."

"Faith is hard to describe, but it sure finds a way to show up."

"Hope don't mean nothin' hurts anymore. It just means you believe it won't hurt like this forever."

"Every wound wants to close. Give it time, give it hope."

"Age don't toughen up the parts of you that loved somebody — losin' a special person hurts the same at any age."

"Hope doesn't promise it will be easy. It just promises it won't always be this hard."

"Hold on. The story isn't finished, and neither are you."

"Some nights feel endless. Morning always comes anyway."

"You don't have to see the whole path. You just have to believe there is one."

"Even the darkest chapter is still just a chapter. It isn't the whole book."

"You've survived one hundred percent of your worst days so far. That's not nothing."

"Hope is the thing that gets you out of bed when nothing else will."

"Somewhere ahead of you is a morning where this won't hurt the way it hurts today."

"What feels permanent right now is not permanent. Very little ever is."

"You are allowed to hope for something better, even if you can't picture it yet."

"The fact that you're still trying means hope hasn't left you — even if it feels like it has."

"There is a version of your life still ahead of you that you haven't lived yet. Don't give up before you get there."

"A flickering faith is still faith. It doesn't have to burn bright to still be real."

"You don't need a strong faith today. A small one that just won't go out completely is enough."

"It's okay if your faith feels like a whisper right now. Whispers still count."

"Your faith isn't being judged. You're just being asked to count on it."

"Nobody's looking for perfection. Just keep trying."

"You don't know the end of the story. All you're asked to do is your best."

"Doubt doesn't mean your faith is gone. It just means it's being tested — and tested faith is still faith."

"You don't have to feel certain to keep believing. Some of the strongest faith I've ever seen was full of questions."

"A flickering candle still gives light. Don't blow it out just because it isn't roaring."

"Faith isn't the absence of doubt. It's holding on anyway, even when you're not sure."

"God isn't asking you to have it all figured out. He's just asking you to keep showing up."

"Even a flicker of faith can outlast the darkest night — it just needs enough time."

"You don't lose your faith by struggling with it. You lose it by walking away from it completely — and you haven't done that."

"Sometimes faith isn't a feeling. It's just refusing to quit even when the feeling's gone."

"I know where I have been. / I know where I am going. / I know how to get there."

"Sometimes it just takes two hearts, committed as one, fighting to give it everything they've got inside both of you."

"You can't be a little bit pregnant. If you're not going to give it your all, don't even try."

"Anyone can say 'I do.' Not everyone can say 'I will.'"

"'I do' gets you married. 'I will' keeps you married."

"It takes a lot of work to build a good relationship. It doesn't take much effort to blow one up."

"Anybody can end a relationship. Not everyone can save one."

"There is nothing you will face today that God can't help you through."

"Make sure that your faith is bigger than your fear."

"Worrying doesn't solve anything. But trusting in God can solve everything."

"If you're letting your pride overrule your heart, you might want to reconsider your priorities."

"None of us are perfect. That doesn't mean we're not worthy."

"I am not qualified to cure your pain. But I am qualified to care about you."

"Hope, faith, and attitude are the foundation of a great life. You don't have to say it — you just have to live it."

"A man with hope can outlast a man with everything else."

"Hope don't cost nothing, and it's worth more than money."

"Faith is the only crop that grows better in a drought."

"You don't need a big faith. You just need a faith that won't quit."

"The Lord don't always come when you want Him, but He's always right on time."

"God don't sleep, so you don't have to carry it all by yourself tonight."

"Hurt like this don't mean you're broken - it means you're still tender enough to feel somethin' true."

"Tears in the dark aren't wasted - they're just prayers that ain't found their words yet."

"You've survived every hard night so far. That's not luck, that's proof."

"Askin' for help is not weakness - it's just about the bravest thing a stubborn person will ever do."

"Don't be upset that it's over - be thankful you got to do it."

"Doubt is not a stop sign - it's just a speed bump on the road of life"

"I planned for where I wanted to go. God planned for where I needed to go!"

"This isn't a sermon. It's just one man telling another person - I see you, and you matter."

"We all have some chapters we don't read out loud."

"You were not put here to just survive. You were put here to thrive."

"Your kids don't need a perfect parent - they need a present one."

"Your babies don't need a perfect parent - they need a present one."

"If you're strugglin' and need somebody right now, call or text 988 - the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Free, confidential, and always open."

"The ability to change is one of the greatest gifts we are given."

"Can you imagine what you can accomplish with inspiration, dedication, and perspiration?"

"A man with courage is a majority."

"You can't put passion in a person — but you sure can help get it out of them."

"Anyone can talk a good game. Not everybody can play a good game."

"Are you making excuses — or are you making a difference?"

"Attitude is one of the only things that no one can ever take away from you."

"Everybody can dream — but only the ones with persistence can make that dream a reality."

"Attitudes are contagious. Which one do you have — a good one or a bad one?"

"No one owns your dreams. Only you."

"The difference between winners and losers is usually just how they think."

"No one has the right to criticize your dreams. You and only you can make that dream a reality."

"If you like where you came from, you'll probably like where you're going."

"Do you have a backbone or a wishbone?"

"Everyone can say what you could have or should have done — but what did you actually do?"

"Having goals is one thing. Having focus is another."

"Attitude determines your altitude."

"The strongest don't always win. The ones who think they can — do."

"In the end, it's not about how big you are or how fast you are — it's about how badly you believe you can."

"If it came easy, everybody would have it."

"Easy roads don't build strong people — but rough roads do."

"How do you know what you can accomplish when you've never tried?"

"You will miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

"Being born poor is not your fault. Staying poor is."

"Hard roads don't go on forever, but strong walkers do."

"The moment you almost quit is usually the moment before the breakthrough."

"Tired is not the same as finished."

"Giving up is permanent. Struggling is temporary."

"The ones who made it were simply the ones who didn't stop."

"You've already survived every hard day you thought would break you."

"The finish line never moves. Only the runner does."

"A winner is not someone who never falls — it's someone who never stays down."

"Winners don't have fewer obstacles — they have more reasons to overcome them."

"A winner is built in the moments nobody is watching."

"Winning starts in the mind long before it shows up in results."

"The winner was once a beginner who simply refused to quit."

"It's not the trophy that makes a winner — it's the heart that earned it."

"You cannot grow and stay the same — choose wisely."

"Growth is rarely comfortable, but comfort rarely grows you."

"You won't recognize the new you until you're willing to let go of the old you."

"Every version of you that struggled built the version of you that stands today."

"Growth doesn't announce itself — you only see it when you look back."

"Attitude is the fuel to change your life."

"A full tank of the right attitude will take you further than talent ever could."

"Change your attitude and you change the direction of your entire life."

"Talent may open the door but attitude decides how long you stay in the room."

"Paralysis by analysis has killed more dreams than failure ever did."

"Could've, should've, would've never accomplished anything."

"If you can conceive your dream, believe it — then I bet you can achieve it."

"Don't get activity confused with accomplishments."

"The world is full of people who almost tried."

"The only talent wasted is the one never used."

"Failure is a moment. Regret is a lifetime."

"You can recover from failure. You cannot recover from never having tried."

"Are you running from something or running to something? There is a big difference."

"Running to something builds a life. Running from something just moves the problem."

"Are you chasing a dream or escaping a reality you haven't fixed yet?"

"You never really lose until you stop trying."

"Grit outlasts talent every single time."

"There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs — and enjoy the climb."

"The door of opportunity swings on the hinges of hard work."

"Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can."

"Most folks bury their passion out of fear. Don't be most folks."

"The world's full of people hiding what lights them up. Be the one who doesn't."

"Do what your neighbor does, and you'll stay right where your neighbor is. Don't expect him to root for you to pass him."

"Life's great battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest man — but in the end, the one who wins is the one who thinks he can."

"A strong heart and determination will always compete with ability."

"Do you rise to the occasion, or wilt to the pressure? The choice is yours."

"They say the only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

"You don't always need tough love. Sometimes you just need tough encouragement."

"It doesn't take money to be a winner. It takes a goal, focus, and a burning desire to change your life."

"Change requires change."

"You become like your environment. Hang around losers, you'll become a loser. Hang around people with ambition, you'll become even more ambitious."

"Winners win, and losers whine."

"It takes guts and determination to rise above negativity and pursue your ambitions."

"It might be challenging and difficult, but nobody can navigate through life except you."

"You get great rewards when you work hard — not when you wish hard."

"You get what you work for, not what you wish for."

"Grit is just grace under pressure that's been there long enough."

"You don't have to feel strong to keep going — you just have to keep going."

"The only way out is through."

"Hard times don't build character — they reveal it."

"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."

"Tough times never last — tough people do."

"If it was easy, everybody would do it."

"I've been knocked down so many times I quit counting and started landing better."

"Some days you're the windshield. Some days you're the bug. Show up either way."

"If you're going through hell, keep going — it ain't a good place to stop. — often attributed to Winston Churchill"

"Falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice."

"A setback is just a setup for a comeback."

"If you don't enjoy today, why do you think you'll like tomorrow?"

"Stop waiting for your life to start. It already did."

"The destination means nothing if you hated the drive."

"You'll miss this day someday. Don't waste it wishing for a different one."

"Life isn't a dress rehearsal. This is the show."

"You don't have to have it all figured out at 25. But you better be working on it."

"The twenties are for making mistakes. The thirties are for fixing them. Don't skip either one."

"Know what you stand for before somebody else decides for you."

"The earlier you figure out what you don't want, the sooner you find what you do."

"You can't be everything to everybody. Pick your lane."

"Who you spend your time with is who you're becoming. Choose carefully."

"Not everybody cheering for you wants you to win."

"The people who are hardest on you sometimes love you the most."

"Marry somebody you actually like. The love deepens — the like has to already be there."

"Learn to live on less than you make. That one habit will change your life."

"Your first job won't be your last. But how you do it will follow you."

"Don't spend money you don't have to impress people you don't like."

"A little saved today is a lot of breathing room tomorrow."

"Failure is tuition. Make sure you're learning something."

"The comeback is always better than the setback — if you use it right."

"Nobody remembers the times you fell. They remember whether you got up."

"Your worst day taught you something your best day never could."

"Be somebody your younger self would be proud of."

"You're going to look back on this someday. Make sure you like what you see."

"Start before you're ready. You'll never be as ready as you think you need to be."

"You may waste a day, maybe even a month — but don’t waste a lifetime."

"Wishing is not working."

"College is just the starting line — not the finish line."

"Most people don't lack ability. They lack direction."

"The person who says it can’t be done should not interrupt the one who is doing it."

"Stop asking what if and start asking why not."

"The only difference between a dream and a plan is a start date."

"Stop waiting for permission. Nobody's going to give it to you anyway."

"You don’t need permission to start. You need the guts to."

"Anyone can give up. It takes something special to stand back up."

"Giving up is easy. Getting back up is where character lives."

"Wishing for something and working for something are not the same thing — and only one of them gets results."

"Your GPA won’t follow you the rest of your life — but your reputation will."

"Kids are like dogs — if the dog jumps up on you and won’t mind, don’t get mad at the dog, get mad at his owner."

"Small goals achieved consistently beat big goals never started."

"You don’t have time to feel sorry for yourself — you’ve got people depending on you."

"Every day you wake up you make a choice — survive or surrender. Choose wisely."

"I might not have been the best — but I promise you I gave my best."

"The world sees the moment. It never sees the years that built it."

"If you can conceive it, believe it — I bet you can achieve it."

"Losing something teaches you what having it was worth."

"Habits can be good or bad. Your choice."

"Entitlement gets you nowhere. Effort gets you everywhere."

"Quitting is easy. Winning is not."

"What you have to relearn, you never take for granted again."

"Anyone can start. Not everyone can finish."

"You're not owed a good life. You're given the chance to build one."

"The comeback teaches you more than the setback ever could."

"Everyone has passion in them. What's hard is getting it to show."

"I never outtalented anybody. But I outworked a few."

"Busy is not the same as productive. Don't confuse motion with progress."

"Activity is not achievement."

"There are people who talk about it. There are people who just do it. Be the second one."

"If it didn't break you… it might have made you!"

"Some things test you. Some things break you. The lucky ones build you."

"Ability sets the floor. Willingness sets the ceiling."

"Most people don't hit a limit on talent. They hit a limit on effort."

"What you can achieve is limited only by what you're willing to do to accomplish it."

"Don't let people tell you what you can't do. Look for people who can show you what you can do."

"This is your at bat. Nobody else's. Keep your eye on the ball and give it everything."

"Sometimes you have to have the guts to fail before you can have the glory to succeed."

"You never have to apologize for trying. But you'll have to live with yourself if you don't."

"Spend your time on winning, not whining."

"Surviving life is one thing. Contributing to it is another."

"There will always be somebody ready to tell you no. Go find the ones who show you how."

"I'm not the smartest man in the room. But I've learned that showing up matters more than being smart."

"A goal without a plan is just a wish with a deadline."

"Plans fail without action. Action fails without a plan. You need both."

"Anybody can write down a goal. Not everybody will do what it takes to reach it."

"A goal without a commitment is just a wish with better handwriting."

"Physical strength gets you through a workout. Mental strength gets you through a crisis. Spiritual strength gets you through a lifetime."

"You don't get to pick where you started. You absolutely get to pick where you're going."

"Where you came from is your story. Where you're going is your choice."

"It's never about having a challenge. It's about how you take on that challenge."

"Don't be afraid to fail. Just don't be too afraid to try."

"Talent is a gift. Effort is a decision. Make sure yours outworks theirs."

"Talent without commitment is just potential that never got used."

"Some people are great at making excuses. Some are great at making a difference."

"I don't know if these sayings are the best, but I can promise you I gave it my best."

"Doubt is a disease that paralyzes your ability."

"The most wasted thing in the world is unused ability."

"Talent is the starting line. Work is the finish line."

"Capable is common. Committed is rare."

"Excellence ain't a moment. It's a habit — and habits don't lie."

"Dreams don't have deadlines. Goals do. Pick one."

"Every dream starts as a thought. Every reality started as a dream. The difference is somebody decided."

"Change doesn't erase who you are. Sometimes it just reveals who you're becoming."

"Bad things happen in life. It's not a matter of if — it's a matter of when."

"It's never too early to dream and never too late to start."

"Change by choice builds you. Change by force just moves you."

"The risk of losing is the cost of having a chance to win."

"The world doesn't wait for people who refuse to change. It just moves on without them."

"You don't bring a knife to a gun fight."

"Half-prepared is the same as unprepared when it really counts."

"Excuses are easy. Differences are earned."

"Nobody ever looked back on their life proud of their excuses."

"Sometimes we make excuses. Sometimes we make a difference. That choice is ours."

"An excuse explains why you didn't. A difference shows why you did."

"The world doesn't need your explanation. It needs your effort."

"Taking a breath and crying isn't losing. Quitting is."

"Your size doesn't determine the fight. Your effort does."

"Nobody remembers how big you were. They remember how hard you tried."

"Small and relentless beats big and half-hearted every time."

"It was never about how big you are. It's about how much you're willing to give."

"Sometimes you need solutions not sympathy."

"Change your attitude and you can change your life."

"If you can conceive, believe it, you can achieve it!"

"If you want to be the best at anything - learn from the best."

"It doesn't matter where you start on the ladder of life It matters where you end up."

"Life's great battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest man - but in the end, the one who wins is the one who thinks he can.- Vince Lombardi"

"There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs"

"Losers give you excuses. Winners give you results."

"You can't get to second base unless you take your foot off first."

"It doesn't matter where you start on the ladder of life and business. It matters where you end up."

"You don't have to be bad to get better. You just have to want to get better."

"Are you a giver or a taker in life?"

"The best thing you'll ever do, you probably haven't done yet."

"Finding out what you don't want in life is just as important as finding out what you do want."

"Common sense — not too common."

"Trees don't grow to the sky."

"If everyone in the room agrees, you probably don't need everybody in the room."

"Do you have a goal — or just a wish?"

"No one plans to fail — they fail to plan."

"The cream always rises to the top."

"No one has twenty-twenty foresight."

"Most people have everything they need — just not everything they want."

"It's great to get a degree — but it's even better to get an education."

"Don't try to boil the ocean — just boil your little pot."

"Farmers don't want all the land — just the land next to them."

"Be thankful for what you have — not what you don't."

"If you help others get what they want, I bet you're probably going to get what you want."

"They say time waits for no one. Well — sounds like you better get in a hurry."

"Most people's opinions are worth about what they cost. Nothing."

"Most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their life."

"Sometimes we all need a jolt of reality."

"Life is actually pretty simple. We just like to make it more difficult than it is."

"Change your thoughts and you can change your life."

"Every person is going to fail at some point — but when you do, learn from it and move on. That's called experience."

"Choices are many — the correct ones are few."

"A degree is a piece of paper — an education is what you did with the rest of your life."

"If you think it's hard to collect money from a poor man — try collecting it from a rich one."

"A lot of people can tell you what not to do — only a few can tell you what to do."

"What takes no time, lasts no time."

"Speed builds for today; patience builds for forever."

"What rushes in, rushes out. What endures, takes its time."

"The quick is forgotten. The careful is remembered."

"I don't know many big fancy words. But I do have a little common sense."

"Book smart is a gift. Street smart is survival. Common sense is both."

"Common sense ain't so common anymore. Hold onto yours — it's worth more than you think."

"Who do you remember — your teacher or the one who gave you an education?"

"Classrooms give you grades. Life gives you wisdom. Both matter — but only one stays with you."

"The best lessons I ever learned came from people who never had a lesson plan."

"We grade the students. Nobody grades the teachers. Maybe we should."

"The wisest thing I ever did was pay attention to the many people wiser than me."

"I learned early that my ears were more valuable than my opinions."

"I never claimed to be the smartest man in the room — I just made sure I was always listening to whoever was."

"Smart is knowing what you know. Wise is knowing what you don't — and finding someone who does."

"The greatest education I ever got didn't come from a classroom. It came from shutting up and listening."

"I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer — but I stayed close to the ones who were."

"I may not have had all the answers. But I knew who to ask."

"Before you take someone's advice — check their results."

"Advice is only as good as the experience behind it."

"You don't ask a fat man how to lose weight — but don't ask a skinny man where to get a Chicken Fried Steak."

"Don't take marriage advice from a divorced man — unless you want to know what not to do."

"Think long, go wrong."

"Most people would rather change everything around them than change the one thing that needs it — themselves."

"The hardest conversation you'll ever have is the honest one you have with yourself."

"Self awareness is rare. Most people spend a lifetime blaming everything but the mirror."

"If you keep doing the same old things you get the same old results."

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

"Most committees are just created so no one person will have to take the blame."

"Most of the time it's easier just to do it than to keep talking about it."

"A half truth is a whole lie."

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

"Just because you rode on a plane don't mean you can fly one."

"Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then."

"The early bird gets the worm — but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."

"If you're listening you're probably learning."

"A lot of things are a little harder to do than they said in school."

"Right choices, right life."

"Whole lot of churning — but no butter."

"You don't have to be the smartest one in the room — just the most trustworthy."

"A mentor is just someone who walked the road ahead of you and left a trail."

"Some folks study so hard for life they forget to live it."

"The smartest folks I know can take a complicated mess and boil it down to where your grandma understands it over coffee."

"Complexity is easy. Simple is the hard part — and the valuable part."

"Make it simple enough that a fifth grader gets it, and smart enough that the expert respects it."

"Simple isn't the absence of smart — it's smart with the fat trimmed off."

"In a world full of bells and whistles, the folks who keep it simple are the ones who get heard."

"It's not that you don't have time. It's that you didn't make time."

"You don't lack time. You lack priorities."

"Time doesn't run out on you. You just spend it on something else."

"Not knowing the answer is not a crime. Knowing it and not using it — that's the bigger problem."

"Everybody's got their own way of getting through life. Don't judge somebody else's just because it's not yours."

"Before you burn the bridge, remember you might need to walk back across it someday."

"Anything can be resolved if everyone is committed to finding a solution."

"The best tech is the kind your grandmother could use without calling you twice."

"High tech, plain talk — that's a winning combination."

"She's got a PhD in common sense, which is rarer than the other kind."

"The best lessons on how to live were never in a book. They were in the people who lived them."