Leadership

"Leadership starts at the top"

Morgan Wooten

Daily Efforts

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out, without ceasing.

-Robert Collier-

Academic Champions Choose the Right

Courage to Start and Stop

"We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn't do" 

Richard L. Evans

Do Good-Be Kind

"I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again."

Etienne de Grellet

You Are in the Driver's Seat

"You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

Any direction you choose." 

Dr. Suess, Places You'll Go

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Train Your Brain

"No brain is stronger than its weakest think."

Thomas L. Masson


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Be Understanding

"You can't understand another person until you walk a few miles in their moccasins."

Native American Proverb

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Courage: Mount Everest

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin


Mount Everest

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Would this require courage?
A 13-year-old American boy on Saturday became the youngest climber to conquer Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain

Jordan Romero from Big Bear, California, scaled the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) summit from the Tibetan side, on the same day a Nepali man broke his own world record for the most number of successful Everest attempts.

"The team has just called in and confirmed that they are standing on top of Mt. Everest," Romero's blog said.

"Their dreams have now come true. Everyone sounded unbelievably happy."

The ascent has put Romero one step closer to reaching his goal of climbing the highest mountains on all seven continents.

"It is just a goal," Romero had told Reuters in the Nepali capital Kathmandu in April. He had already climbed five peaks including Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and needs to climb only Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica to hit his target.

The previous youngest person to summit Everest was 16-year-old Temba Tsheri Sherpa of Nepal.

Romero was accompanied by a team including his father Paul, a critical care paramedic, and Sherpa guides. He told Reuters wanted to pick a small piece of rock from the top of the world as a memento and wear it in a necklace.

His next mission is to climb the highest mountains in all 50 states in the United States.

More than 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Mount Everest since it was first climbed by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in 1953.

Nepali mountaineer Apa Sherpa broke his own record and climbed Mount Everest for the 20th time, said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Asian Trekking Agency.

Apa, 50, who lives in the United States, reached the summit on Saturday along the Southeast Ridge route. He carried a banner all the way to the summit to raise awareness of the environmental impact of climate change on the Himalayas.

"It is a fantastic achievement by one individual," said Elizabeth Hawley, who chronicles major climbs in the Himalayan mountain range. "Going back year after year after year and succeeding each time is really amazing."

Article from Reuters.com

July 20, 2010

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64L0TV20100522

Dreams and Greatness

"When the dreams die, there is no greatness."

A Ute Indian Tribe saying 

Succeed Today

"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln 

Goals

"Goals determine what you are going to be."

Julius Erving, Dr. "J"

What will bring you good luck?

The Secret for Good Luck

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Thomas Jefferson 

Leadership

"Leadership is action, not position."

Donald H. McGannon

What Determines Your Destiny?

"Decisions Determine Destiny"

Thomas S. Monson

Trust Yourself

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

 Goethe

Your Work

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”

Buddha

Your Imagination

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein

The 4 C's

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

~Walt Disney~