Quotes

Attitude

"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."   -unknown

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."   -Ralph Marston

"It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy."   -unknown

"The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude."   -Dennis S. Brown

"When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long."  -unknown

"The greatest discover of my generation is that a human being ca alter his life by altering his attitudes."    
                                                                                                                                         -William James

"Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play."   -Robert Brault

"It is not the wrongs that others to do us that harm us most, but the wrongs we do to us."

• Mahatma Gandhi
  The future depends on what we do in the present.

• Jonathan Swift
  Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

• George Bernard Shaw
  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Every artist was first an amateur.

• Wayne Dyer
  Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

• Thomas Jefferson
  Every generation needs a new revolution.

• Thomas Edison
  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Education

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." 
-Thomas Jefferson

"The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail."
-George Washington

"Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."
-James Madison

"I consider knowledge to be the soul of a republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally in alliance, as much care should be taken to diminish the number of the former as of the latter. Education is the way to do this, and nothing should be left undone to afford all ranks of people the means of obtaining a proper degree of it at a cheap and easy rate."
-John Jay

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
-Alexander Hamilton

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
-Thomas Jefferson

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on each on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
-James Madison

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
-John Adams

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

-Mahatma Gandhi

The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous




Older Grades:

Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.- Tom Lehrer

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain