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"You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will."
-Joel Barker
"No one will thank you for taking care of the present if you have neglected the future."
-Joel Barker
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-Coach John Wooden
"The future will depend on what we do in the present."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"If we do all of the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
-Thomas Edison
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
-William Shakespeare
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
-Sydney J. Harris
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow
where only one grew
before."
-Thorstein Veblen
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always
will solve the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
-Aristotle
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
-Henry David Thoreau
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"Slow and steady wins the race."
-Aesop
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
-William Shakespeare
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his
life by altering his attitudes of mind."
-William James
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest
abilities, because in each of us here is a private hope and dream which,
fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength
for our nation."
-John F. Kennedy
"If you're not making mistakes,then you're not doing anything."
-John Wooden, Hall of Fame basketball coach for UCLA
won a record 10 NCAA championships
"The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest
mistake of all -- doing nothing."
-Benjamin Franklin
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British prime minister during WWII
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish playwright & critic
"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of
ideas and enthusiasm."
-Thomas J. Watson (1875-1956)
American industrialist, incorporated IBM
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the things you think you
cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done,
and done right."
-Walt Disney (1901-1966)
American entrepreneur,
movie producer and showman
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first
overcome."
-Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English critic & poet
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
-Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
American inventor
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of
aspiration and expectation."
-Jack Nicklaus
American golf champion
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills
American opera singer
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
-Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player
currently holds the No. 2 spot for
the most home runs of all time with 714
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you
can think up if only you try."
-Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)
from "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!"
American writer and illustrator
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting
devotion to the things you want to see happen."
-Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
considered by many to be one of
the greatest American architects
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be
broken."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English critic & poet
"Press on. Nothing can take the
place of persistence."
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
30th President of the United States
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our
fears."
John McCain (1936 - )
U.S. Senator, Vietnam veteran
"Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each
time you succeed."
Mia Hamm (1972 - )
American soccer player, Olympic gold medalist
"It is time for us all to cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who
recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Hall of Fame football coach
"You can tell a man is clever by his answers. You can tell a man is wise by
his questions."
Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - )
Egyptian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
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