Super Bowl Sunday: Quotations to Inspire
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 1, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, Cardinals vs. Steelers.
No matter who wins this game, both teams are to be commended. It was a fierce winning attitude, a persistent spirit, a determination to not give up even when the odds were against them, a passion, that brought the members of these two football teams together on this definitive day in sports. Their attitudes in life, to dreams, to family, to doing what needed to be done to be successful: all these have influenced them, and now they are on the cusp of a major championship.
Many Americans reading this are hurting and afraid; loss of job or fear of losing a job, loss of finances, loss of self-esteem, loss of a loved one, loss of a home. Frugality is a lifestyle and change of mindset, one often forced upon a person because of a financial crisis. However, you can overcome the crisis that brought you to this point: how you resolve to try again, to plan a strategy, to resolve to do better, to change an attitude, will influence whether you will be able to overcome your obstacles, fear, and pain. Choose to win.
Failure is temporary if you choose it to be. We all have failures and learn from them. Be inspired by today’s game; give it your all, never give up.
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Here are some inspirational quotations that may help you during these difficult times:
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. — William James
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures. — Vince Lombardi
I’ve experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum. — John Elway
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. — Oprah Winfrey
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. — H. Ross Perot
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener. — James Allen
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it’s not going to be satisfying. — Greg LeMond
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. — Malcolm Forbes
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. — Grace Lichtenstein
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. — Billy Graham
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. — Ronald Reagan
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