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“History provides abundant examples of people whose greatest gift was in redeeming, inspiring, liberating, and nurturing the gifts of others.”

SONYA RUDIKOFF
AUTHOR
DEVOTION

“The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.”

UNKNOWN
ACHIEVEMENT

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, responsible, honorable, compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

LEO ROSTEN
WRITER, TEACHER
PURPOSE

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. ”

THOMAS EDISON
INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN
PERSISTENCE

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Remember that Columbus was looking for India when he found America.”

SIR TOM STOPPARD
BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT
OPPORTUNITY

“Acknowledging a person for the good that they do is good, but not as good as committing to do that same good yourself.”

MELANIE E. BURGOS
DO YOUR PART

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear you speak.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
PHILOSOPHER, POET, AUTHOR, ESSAYIST
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

“The young man and woman with sight see things as they are. The young man and woman with insight, see things as they could be.”

JOSEPH P. MARTINO
AMERICAN QUOTATION AUTHOR AND POET
FORESIGHT

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind rather than on outward circumstances.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
POLITICIAN, WRITER, SCIENTIST
CHARACTER

“Your spark can become a flame and change everything. ”

E.D. NIXON
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
INSPIRATION

“Believe that you have it, and you have it. ”

LATIN PROVERB
BELIEVE

“Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
SPREAD YOUR WINGS

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”

BERTOLT BRECHT
POET, PLAYWRIGHT, THEATER DIRECTOR
LIVE LIFE

“I believe that when you realize who you really are, you understand that nothing can stop you from becoming that person.”

CHRISTINE LINCOLN
CHARACTER

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger in the broken places.”

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOVELIST, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
PERSEVERANCE

“I try to learn from the finite, the lessons of the infinite. ”

ARTHUR YOUNG
ENGLISH WRITER
LEARNING

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder. ”

GENERAL W.J. SLIM
BRITISH MILITARY COMMANDER; 13TH GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA.
DEDICATION

“If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ”

RACHEL CARSON
MARINE BIOLOGIST AND CONSERVATIONIST
INSPIRATION

“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

JOHN STEINBECK
AMERICAN WRITER
PATIENCE

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
DRAMATIST, POET
VISION

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”

ANNE FRANK
DIARIST
KINDNESS

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

JIM HENSON
AMERICAN PUPPETEER
DO YOUR PART

“The mind determines what’s possible. The heart surpasses it. ”

PILAR COOLINTA
DETERMINATION

“Leap and the net will appear.”

ZEN PROVERB
COURAGE

“You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.”

BONO [PAUL HEWSON]
MUSICIAN, PHILANTHROPIST
INGENUITY

“Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life's a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! you will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed). Kid, you'll move mountains.”

THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
WRITER, CARTOONIST, ANIMATOR
ACHIEVEMENT

“Life is better because you know more, not just because you have more.”

ANONYMOUS
LEARNING

“You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

JOHN PEERS
AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN
CONFIDENCE

“The things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. ”

ALEXIS CARREL
FRENCH SURGEON; NOBEL LAUREATE
RIGHT CHOICES

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ”

ANTOINE DE SAINTE-EXUPERY
(1900-1944); AVIATOR, WRITER
LEADERSHIP

“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.”

UTA HAGEN
ACTRESS
DETERMINATION

“I am because you are.”

AFRICAN PROVERB
DEVOTION

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

ROBERT BYRNE
AMERICAN CHESS PLAYER
PURPOSE