Young People Rising Up

"The choices you make today are writing the story somebody's going to tell about you later."

"If you don't want to get fleas, don't hang around dogs."

"Find a winner you can learn from."

"Work harder than you think you have to. Someone else already is."

"Nobody owes you a good life. But you owe yourself the effort to build one."

"You've got more time than you think and less than you know."

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

"If you can conceive it, believe it — then you can achieve it."

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

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

"The difference between having a job and having a career is — a job is what you do. A career is who you become."

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

"It's a lot easier to get home when you were born on third base — but it's a lot more challenging when you had to start at the batter's box."

"Only in America. A little kid with nothing but heart and a dream can grow up to be anything. That's not a slogan — that's a fact!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Living is learning."

"You always knew the stove was hot. But you still had to touch it."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Look for a career, not a job."

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

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

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

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

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

"The GPA got her noticed. The personality got her hired."

"I bought a pair of boots I couldn't afford with money I hadn't earned yet - that's not confidence, son, that's Texas credit."

"I thought I was rich the day I got my first check. Turns out I was just rich in front of the gas station clerk for about ten minutes."

"I thought I was smooth at seventeen. Turns out 'smooth' was just 'lucky' wearin' cologne."

"My first paycheck felt like a million dollars - lasted about as long as a snow cone in July."

"Nothing humbles a young man faster than gettin' dressed up for a girl who's got her eye on your best friend's truck."

"You ain't really been young 'til you've written a love letter you were too scared to mail."