Quotes
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ” Jim Ryun
“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.” Marva Collins
“Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” - Dr.Seuss
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Above all to thine own self be true.” William Shakespeare
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” Henry David Thoreau
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” Gen. George S. Patton
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” Sir Winston Churchill
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” Vince Lombardi
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle.
“A constructive life is built on the things we do – not the things we don’t do. Never forget that the only material which can be used in building a life is positive action.” Cavett Robert
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is not path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” Mother Teresa
“I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.” Abraham Lincoln
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.“ Cicero
“Whatever you are be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” Goethe
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.“ Robert F. Kennedy
“The unexamined life is not worth living.“ Socrates
“Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. “ Horace
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.“ Danny Kaye
“Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.“ John W. Gardner (1912-2002) Founder of citizens’ rights organization Common Cause
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.“ Rosalyn S. Yalow
“I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.“ Paul Harvey
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.“ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.“ George Eliot
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.“ Plato
“The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine.” William H. Danforth
“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.“ Charles M. Schwab
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.“ Dan Zadra
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” William Arthur Ward
“Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.“ J.C. Watts, Jr.
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.“ Whitney Young
“I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.“ Frances Willard
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.“ Arthur Rubinstein
“The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.“ R. J. Rehwinkels
“Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.“ Martha Friedman
“We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.“ Mary Crowley
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.“ Anna Quindlen
“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.“ Pete Seeger
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.“ Bertha Calloway
“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.“ Elmer G. Leterman
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.“ Freya Madeline Stark
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.“ Whitney Young
“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?“ Lee Iacocca
“Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what is was lived for.“ David Starr Jordan
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.“ Harriet Beecher Stowe
“There’s nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit – and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.“ Virginia Kelley
“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.“ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.“ Sister Mary Rose McGeady
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.“ The Dalai Lama
“Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.“ Thomas Dewar
