“great legacy starts with a great life, and every great life starts with a great plan.”
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Jim Stovall
“Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.”
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Jim Stovall
“Tournament. For months, every team in the country has a goal of making it to the tournament. Then, at the end of the season, 64 teams are selected from various parts of the country. As the tournament progresses, teams are eliminated one-by-one until, at the end of the season, the team remaining is named the national champion. Among all of the participants who began at the beginning of the season, and among all the top 64 who actually made the tournament, only one team comes out on top. If this is our only goal, the majority of us are doomed”
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Jim Stovall
“Conventional wisdom would say that the less you give, the more you have. The converse is true. The more you give, the more you have.”
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Jim Stovall
“that we would receive the overwhelming message that the vast majority of adults feel they have no talent in these areas. On the other hand, if we were to conduct the same poll among 4-year-olds, we would find that virtually all of them are convinced they can sing, and virtually all of them have confidence in their ability to dance. Most of the 4-year-olds have little or no real talent, but, instead, they are endowed with incredible confidence in their own potential. This confidence, or certainty of success, is something we were all born with but we later traded in for a strong dose of what we call realism. Shortly after we reach school age, we are taught lessons about the world that revolve around us, limiting our vision and becoming realistic.”
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Jim Stovall
“I have always found it ironic that the people in this world who have the most to be thankful for are often the least thankful, and somehow the people who have virtually nothing, many times live lives full of gratitude.”
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Jim Stovall
“Anything good, honorable, and desirable in life is based on love. Anything bad or evil is simply life without the love involved.”
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Jim Stovall
“and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you’ve lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything.”
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Jim Stovall
“Somehow love from the past can be felt in the present and accompany us on our journey into the future.”
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Jim Stovall
“A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.”
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Jim Stovall
“it is more important how you change the lives of those whom you touch every day than whether or not you change the world.”
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Jim Stovall
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Jim Stovall
“poverty in a family of twelve children.”
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Jim Stovall
“Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.”
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Jim Stovall
“Some friendships are a legacy left to us by those who have gone before. Other friendships are legacies we will leave behind.”
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Jim Stovall
