By Brenda Cannon Henley
Senior Correspondent for The Examiner
August 1 – “I was told I could be anything I wanted to be if I wanted it badly enough. I believed them.” - Barbara Jones Slater
August 2 – “Hard work gives life meaning.” - Oseola McCarty
August 3 – “Everyone needs to work hard at something to feel good about themselves.” - Oseola McCarty
August 4 – “Every job can be done well and every day has its own satisfactions.” Oseola McCarty
August 5 – “Average is your biggest enemy.” - Pearce “Rocky” Lane
August 6 – “If there are not great values behind great victories, the victories are pointless.” - Greg Sgrosso
August 7 – “Life is tons of discipline.” – Robert Frost
August 8 – “If a man does his very best, what else is there?’ - George Patton
August 9 – “You build a successful life a day at a time.” - Lou Holtz
August 10 – “Let perseverance by your engine and hope your fuel.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
August 11 – “As a coach I tell kids that whether you win or lose, act like a winner. Hold your head up high. Winning isn’t everything, but trying to win is everything.” – Pete Cava
August 12 – “All the acts of generosity and kindness that we extend to others eventually makes a circle and comes back to us. The Bible reminds us, ‘as we sow, so shall we reap.’” – Lucinda Williams Adams
August 13 – “If you take one step, God will take two.” - Lucinda Williams Adams
August 14 – “My words of wisdom to young people go like this: If you’re going to work at something, no matter if it’s cleaning out a trash can or running a race, do a god job. I can’t imagine doing anything and not doing my best.” – Betty Vosburgh
August 15 – “We’re never to old to learn new skills and polish the ones we have.” - Betty Vosburgh
August 16 – “My coach said, ‘Believe in yourself. Run with heart and put the rest aside.’ It’s amazing how your body responds to your thoughts.”
August 17 – “The importance of winning is not what we get from it, but what we become because of it.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
August 18 – “Champions learn how to reach down deep for that extra reserve of spirit and pride in what they are doing.” - Carlette Guidry
August 19 – “People complain all the time about how busy they are, but there is time enough for all the things that a person really wants to do.” - Oseola McCarty
August 20 – “We are responsible for the way we use our time on this earth, so I try hard to be a good steward.” - Oseola McCarty
August 21 – “Usefulness often outlasts style.” - Oseola McCarty
August 22 – “A smart person always plans for the future.” - Oseola McCarty
August 23 – “I know people who don’t know God just can’t understand that He’s real.” – Oseola McCarty
August 24 – “The greatest lesson of faith that I know is that you have to be willing to grow in grace. You have to be willing to start at the beginning and become like a little child.” – Oseola McCarty
August 25 – “You have to accept God the best way you know how and then He’ll show Himself to you. And the more you serve Him, the more able you are to serve Him.” - Oseola McCarty
August 26 – “I believe the way we live matters, not just for now but for always. There is an eternal side to every single thing we do.” – Oseola McCarty
August 27 – “My mother lived her life as an example before me and taught me the difference between right and wrong. She also taught me the consequences of misbehaving.” - Oseola McCarty
August 28 – “Most of the children we see take their habits from the mother and father.” – Oseola McCarty (What are you parenting to your children today?)
August 29 – “It is important to make special memories with the people you love most.” - Oseola McCarty
August 30 – “Teachers can give children something to hold onto or a new way of seeing the world.” – Oseola McCarty
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