"If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance."
Derek Bok
"Believe in yourself, feed your faith and stave your doubts to
death"
Gil Figaro, Sr.
"Go where there is no path and leave a trail"
Gil T. Figaro, Sr.
"Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be."
Gil T. Figaro, Sr.
"Communications should build bridges, not walls."
Gil T. Figaro, Sr
For Success, Attitude is as important as Ability.
Paramus Catholic High School
Vision
- "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible."
Commitment
"Nothing
happens unless first a dream."
Carl
Sandburg
"The
odds are with you if you keep trying."
Keith
De Green
"Get
a good idea and stick with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done and done
right."
Walt
Disney
"You
can't spell success without U."
Footprints
One night a man had a dream. He dreamt he was walking along the beach with
the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene
he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to
him, and the other to the LORD.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints
in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was
only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at
the very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it. "LORD,
you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is
only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed
you most you would leave me."
The LORD replied, "My precious, precious child. I love you and
would never leave you. During the times of trial and suffering, when you see
only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried
you."
DON'T BE AFRAID TO FAIL
You've failed many times
And although you may not remember
You fell down the first time you tried to walk
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim
Didn't you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs,
Also strike out a lot.
R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist, John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564
books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES
Perseverance
"I don't think there is any other quality so essential to success of
any kind
as the quality of perseverance."
John D. Rockefeller
"Our Mothers' Hands"
So weary yet so strong
They carved our future out
They taught us right from wrong
That's what they're all about
So tender and so kind
So gentle and so sweet
They taught us how to fight
The battles we will meet.
Gil Figaro, Sr.
Priorities
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the
sort of house I lived in. Or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be
different because I was important in the life of a child.
Gil Figaro, Sr.
