INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.”
Ed Bradley
PREPARATION
“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Mary Pickford
DETERMINATION
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
DETERMINATION
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
DETERMINATION
“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
Jon Kabat-Ziin
PATIENCE
“Patience is more than simply learning to wait. It is having learned what is worth your time.”
J. M. Storm
PATIENCE
“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
FRIENDSHIP
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
Marian Wright Edelman
EDUCATION
“A life lived with integrity… is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”
Dennis Waitley
INTEGRITY
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
Oprah Winfrey
INTEGRITY
“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”
Brené Brown
INTEGRITY
“Just as one cannot live without dreams, one cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”
Elie Wiesel
HOPE
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.”
Bradley Whitford
HOPE
“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.”
Arabic Proverb
GIVING BACK
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
Maya Angelou
GIVING BACK
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to them their own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
GIVING BACK
“Unity is strength…when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
Mattie Stepanek
UNITY
“The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”
Donald E. Williams
UNITY
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
FREEDOM
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ”
Helen Keller
RESPONSIBILITY
“The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life.”
Hal Elrod
RESPONSIBILITY
“We must take personal responsibility. We cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but we can change ourselves.”
Jim Rohn
RESPONSIBILITY
“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. ”
Alexandra Stoddard