Al’s Quotes and Quips for October

• “Significance is found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in the same way better because of the way we lived.” (Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts)
• “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” (Muhammad Ali, quoted in BleacherReport.com)
• “In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated.  But in our century, they want to be entertained.” (Michael Crichton, quoted in The American Interest)
• “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” (Hugh Downs, quoted in the Weekly Economic Update)
• “There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” (William James, quoted in the Omaha World-Herald)
• “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” (Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in Breitbart.com)
• “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in Refdesk.com)
• “Leaders are those who can influence people to do what they don’t want to do and make them like doing it.” (Harry Truman)
• “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow.” (Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Sword of the Lord)

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: In John Wooden’s autobiography, They Call Me Coach, Wooden wrote, “I always tried to make it clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”