Aspire Quotes

“It’s the private victories that matter most and are felt the deepest and last the longest. It’s the internal triumphs that aren’t recorded on scoreboards or broadcast on the eleven o’clock news that define who we are. Ollin is what determines success in our lives, instead of the conventional measure of winning and losing. With that as a definition of success, it is possible for everyone to win all the time.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Life is not what has happened to you, but what you do with what happened.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“She believed that a good teacher should make a poor student good, and a good student superior. I remember her saying, “When our students fail, we, as teachers, have also failed.” She focused on identifying and magnifying each student’s unique gifts. Her mantra to her students was “Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself.” She embodied the philosophy “You can’t teach what you don’t know, and you can’t guide where you don’t go.” We don’t have to teach thousands, hundreds, or even dozens. If we can show one person the way, if we can bring one person from darkness into light, if we can make a difference in one person’s development, we have succeeded as a teacher and a coach. It is true that when you light someone else’s path, you see your own more clearly.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“There are a lot of starters in the world. Who doesn’t love to start new and exciting things? Starting is the easy part. The hard part is finishing. It is finishing that separates those with passion from those without it.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“The word is ‘Genshai,’” he said. “It means that you should never treat another person in a manner that would make them feel small.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Life ist not what has happened to you, but what you do with what hashappened.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Words have tremendous power for good or for ill. They can inspire or expire. The choice is ours. We can:
Choose to heal or choose to wound.
Choose to affirm or choose to reject.
Choose to inspire or choose to expire.
Choose to praise or choose to criticize.
Choose to appreciate or choose to depreciate.
Choose to encourage or choose to discourage.
Choose to focus on strengths or choose to focus on weaknesses.
Using words and language that lift the human spirit creates a new paradigm in thinking. Instead of "What can I get?" our mentality shifts to "What can I give?”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“My mother ingrained in me the importance of encouraging and inspiring those who appear on my path. "Leave them better for having met you", she taught.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Words have tremendous power for good or for ill. They can isnpire or expire. The choice is ours. We can:
Choose to heal or choose to wound.
Choose to affirm or choose to reject.
Choose to inspire or choose to expire.
Choose to appreciate or choose to depreciate.
Choose to encourage or choose to discourage.
Choose to focus on strenghts or choose to focus on weaknesses.
Using words and language that lift the human spirit creates a new paradigm in thinking. Instead of "What can I get?" our mentality shifts to "What can I GIVE?”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words

“Do you ever say to yourself, "I'm stressed...I'm overloaded...I'm going to have a breakdown"? We all feel like that occasionally, in small moments of our life, but if you are feeling that way consistently, regularly, from the moment you get up in the morning until the moment you go to bed, you're clearly not on your path, and you're most likely not doing what you were meant to do. Those three words - "stress", "overloaded", "breakdown" - were not originally meant to describe humans.”
― Kevin Hall, Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words