APPENDIX I
SAL Quotes
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
—Sir Isaac Newton
"Teach a man how to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life."
—Andrew Carnegie
"Do your duty and a little bit more and the future will take care of itself."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"The quality of the individual citizen is supreme."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root."
—Henry David Thoreau
"We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed."
—G.K. Chesterton
"You cannot do right in one department of life whilst occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole."
—Gandhi
"The greatest battle of life is fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."
—David Oman McKay
"YOU must be the change you wish to see in the world."
—Gandhi
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. I wanted to change the world, but I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself"
—Aldous Huxley
"God helps those who help themselves."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
and with all thy getting get understanding."
—Proverbs 4:7
"That which hurts, instructs."
—Benjamin Franklin
"A healthy discontent is good."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The past does not equal the FUTURE."
—Tony Robbins
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Communication is the most important skill we can be working on as adults."
—Stephen R. Covey
"Don't be lazy in language."
—Jim Rohn
"Words—so innocent and powerless they are as standing in a dictionary—how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!"
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Know thyself!"
—Socrates
"I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity on the near side of complexity;
but I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity!"
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There is a causal relationship between self-worth and productivity."
—Hyrum W. Smith
"If you don't feel like exercising, commit to exercising for just five minutes. If you do, chances are good you'll end up exercising for a lot longer than five minutes."
—Christopher P. Neck, Ph.D.
"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand."
—Thomas Carlyle
"Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof!"
—Jesus
"I am an old man and have suffered a great many misfortunes, most of which never happened."
—Mark Twain
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given.
Freedom is something people take [earn], and people are as free as they want to be."
—James Baldwin
"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
—Theodore Geisel
aka Dr. Seuss
"There are times in life when it is important to be right.
But most of the time it is more important to be easy to live with."
—Christoffel Golden
"You become what you think about all day long."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed."
—G. K. Chesterton
"Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery;
TODAY is a gift—that's why they call it the PRESENT."
—Multiple author attributions
"Insanity is doing the same things over and over again while expecting different results."
—Albert Einstein
"Nothing in life worth having comes fast or easy."
—Rex Buckley Jensen
"Results take time to measure."
—Hyrum W. Smith
"In your patience possess ye your souls."
—Luke 21:19
"He who can have patience can have what he will."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Nature does not hurry; yet everything is accomplished."
—Lao Tzu
"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life."
—Jerzy Gregorek
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
—Benjamin Franklin
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut for everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
—Henry Miller
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
—Eleanor Roosevelt
"He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
—John Wayne
"We are under the domain of [Universal] Laws as much as bees.
We succeed only by working with others and for others."
—Elbert Hubbard
"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time.
But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
—Abraham Lincoln
"We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive—something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But that is a false conception.
[The law] is meant to govern and it is also meant to educate."
—Cecil B. DeMille
"Everything is determined by what you do
and [your efforts] to be your best—
so that you can build on positive performance."
"Nothing is acceptable but your best."
—Nick Saban
"Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession Earth can give. Everyone has this most precious of life's endowments—the gift of free agency—man's inherited and inalienable right."
—David Oman McKay
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
—Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried."
—Winston Churchill
"They may take our lives (or liberty),
but they will never take our freedom!"
—William Wallace
(As depicted by Mel Gibson in the 1995 Hollywood movie, Braveheart)
"I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked."
—A lament of the unwise
From: The Screwtape Letters
By C.S. Lewis
"The secret to happiness is freedom.
And the secret to freedom is courage."
"Know this that every soul is free,
To choose his life, and what he'll be;
For this eternal truth is giv'n:
That God will force no man to heav'n."
—Anonymous
"As you sow, so shall ye reap."
—Law of the Harvest
"What goes around comes around."
—Old proverb
"The first condition of freedom is its limitation;
make it absolute and it dies in chaos."
—Will Durant
"In the long run, you only hit what you aim at."
—Henry David Thoreau
"I think, therefore I am."
—Réne Descartes
"Big talkers, little doers."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve."
—Bryant S. Hinckley
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
—Mohandas Gandhi
"Life's most persistent question is: 'What are YOU doing for others.'"
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what YOU can do for your country."
—President John F. Kennedy
"When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary;
when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable."
—Émile Durkheim
"Keep in your heart a shrine to the ideal,
and upon this altar let the fire never die."
—Elbert Hubbard
"If you want to be great, then find a way to serve;
for service leads to greatness."
—Jim Rohn
"You can have anything you want if you help enough other people get what they want."
—Zig Ziglar
"O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!"
—Sir Walter Scott
"Go home and take care of your families."
—Mother Teresa
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [mankind] is created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
—Thomas Jefferson
"For things to change, YOU must change."
—Jim Rohn
"What you achieve inwardly changes your outer reality."
—Plutarch and Otto Rank
"Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something much better: that we can become oak trees."
—E.F. Schumacher
"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm."
—Winston Churchill
"If there be any peace it will come through being, not having."
—Henry Miller
"Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or
polishes you up is up to you and you alone to decide."
—Cavett Robert
"If you live well, you will earn well."
—Jim Rohn
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is funny how mortals always picture [devils]
as putting things into their minds;
in reality [their] best work is done
by keeping things out." (6)
—The Devil
(From The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis)
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends ...
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
—Eleonor Roosevelt
"Henry Thoreau made, last night, the fine remark that, as long as a [person] stands in his
[or her] own way, everything seems to be in the way, governments, society,
and even the sun and moon and stars, as astrology may testify."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Quoting Thoreau in his Journal)
"Before success comes in any[one's] life, [one] is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and perhaps some failure. ... Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they 'arrive.'"
—Napoleon Hill
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
"We are responsible for our own effectiveness, our own happiness,
and ultimately, I would say, for most of our circumstances."
—Stephen R. Covey
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
—Vince Lombardi
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
—Robert Frost
"I have but one maxim:
do right and risk the consequences."
—Sam Houston
"Do what is right; let the consequence follow.
Battle for freedom in spirit and might;
And with stout hearts look ye forth till tomorrow.
God will protect you; then do what is right!"
—Anonymous
"The truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it;
But in the end... there it is."
—Winston Churchill
"I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education, which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life."
—Michael Faraday
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter.
You can't just work on one of them."
—Dan O'Brien
We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience"
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Give me health and a day, and I will make
the pomp of emperors look ridiculous."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world,
more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership."
—Amit Ray
"I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us."
—Dave Ramsey
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe,
the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them:
the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
—Immanuel Kant
"Just as a car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther
when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your
thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
—Brian Tracy
"Mental health is a process of ongoing dedication to reality at all costs,
no matter how uncomfortable the reality makes you feel."
—M. Scott Peck
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Things which matter most must never be
at the mercy of things which matter least."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Your decisions determine your destiny."
—Common Saying
"[Self-action leaders] do not blame their circumstances, conditions, or conditioning
for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscience choice,
based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
[A self-action leader's] honor is greater than his or her moods."
—Stephen R. Covey
"We do not go to space because it is easy; we do it because it is hard."
—President John F. Kennedy
"That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
—Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong
Mental health is a process of ongoing dedication to reality at all costs,
no matter how uncomfortable the reality makes us.."
—M. Scott Peck
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us,
to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires
of an extreme individualism as of an extreme socialism."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"You tell on yourself."
—Anonymous
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas
as in escaping from old ones."
—John Maynard Keynes
"The only place where success comes before hard work is in the dictionary."
"Exceptionally difficult external circumstances give us the opportunity to grow beyond ourselves."
—Viktor Frankl
"Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
—John Wayne
"He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games.
Twenty-six (26) times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot—and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
—Michael Jordan
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
—Mark Twain
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
—Reinhold Niebuhr
"Things always happen for a reason,
but sometimes that reason is because you are stupid and make bad decisions."
—Anonymous online quote
"Human beings man!"
—Brian Regan
"If we learn personal discipline ... then we have the freedom to live without concern.
Everybody loves freedom, but most people think that discipline leads to bondage.
That isn't true. Discipline always leads to freedom."
—Woodrow Kroll
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."
—Jesus
"Everyone I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from them."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a reverence that we owe to everything in human shape."
—William Godwin
"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of his thoughts."
—James Allen
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
—William James
"More than all your enemies,
an undisciplined mind does greater harm."
—Buddha
"When you rule your mind, you rule your world."
—Imelda Shanklin
"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses."
—Dan Zadra
"Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature."
—Henry Miller
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent
or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The reward which life holds out for work is not idleness nor rest, nor immunity from work,
but increased capacity, GREATER DIFFICULTIES, MORE WORK."
—Elbert Hubbard
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
—Franklin Roosevelt
"Do the best you can with what you have where you are."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and is only acquired with much patience and great effort."
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win
and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
More important, you must pay the price to stay there."
—Vince Lombardi
"A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, [and] overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far."
—Barry C. Forbes
"Hard work never killed anyone; but it sure scared a lot of 'em!"
—Anonymous
"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries
with it the see of an equivalent or a greater benefit."
—Napoleon Hill
"Half the truth is often a great lie."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself."
—Charles H. Spurgeon
"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
—Charles R. Swindoll
"When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change."
—Wayne W. Dyer
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others
as what he does from day-to-day to lead himself."
—Thomas J. Watson
"One of the biggest leadership issues is the inability of people—
even and especially managers and executives—to lead themselves."
—James G.S. Clawson, Ph.D.
"Life is not ... a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life." (1)
—Harold S. Kushner
"No one cares what storms you faced, only did you bring in the ship?"
—David G. Farragut
"You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is.
You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul."
—Harold Bingham Lee
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
—Galatians 6:7
"He who conquers himself is mighty."
—Lao Tsu
"One who conquers himself is greater than another who
conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield."
—Buddha
"The strong man is not the good wrestler;
the strong man is only the one who controls himself."
—Muhammad
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
—Sir Edmund Hillary
"Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-Mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror."
—Napoleon Hill
"The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind
and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,
and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints."
—Will Durant
"Formal education makes you a living; self-education makes you a legend."
—Habeeb Akande
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
—Jesus Christ
"Repetition is the key to reception."
—Anonymous
"Don't be too squeamish about your actions; all life is an experiment."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Seek education from the cradle to the grave."
—Muhammad
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science [and art] of human relationships—
the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, and enemy to none."
—Benjamin Franklin
"In the end, what else is there but relationships?"
—Stephen R. Covey
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
—Carl Jung
"When people succeed they tend to party; when they fail, they tend to ponder."
—Tony Robbins
"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
—Benjamin Franklin
"If your life is worth living, it's worth recording."
—Anthony Robbins
“Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
– Thomas Jefferson
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious.
Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals."
—Jim Rohn
"Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day.
Failure is a few simple disciplines neglected every day."
—Jim Rohn
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
—Benjamin Franklin
"The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."
—William Ewart Gladstone
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
—Jesus Christ
"Good, better, best.
Never let it rest
'til the good is better,
And the better is best."
—St Jerome
"You are the best YOU."
You will always be the second best anyone else."
—Leo Buscaglia
"There are no perfect [people] in the world; only perfect intentions."
—Pen Densham & John Watson
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
"INTEGRITY is the ability to carry out a worthy decision
after the emotion of making that decision has passed."
—Hyrum W. Smith
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
—Shakespeare
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time;
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
—Abraham Lincoln
"Honesty is the best policy."
—Benjamin Franklin
"The way you see the problem often is the problem."
—Stephen R. Covey
"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Fools need advice most, but only wise men are the better for it."
—Benjamin Franklin
"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future."
—Winston Churchill
"Always be humble and kind."
—Tim McGraw (vocalist)
Lori McKenna (lyricist)
"It is better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent."
—Ezra Taft Benson
"If you can't say somthin' nice, don't say nuthin' at all."
—Thumper
(From Disney's "Bambi")
"The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. The moment we commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen people, events, and circumstances will rise up and assist us."
—William James
"A person's business is to work—to surmount difficulties, to endure hardship,
to solve problems, to overcome the inertia of his own nature:
to turn chaos into cosmos by the aid of system—[to act]—this is to live!"
—Elbert Hubbard
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
—Thomas Jefferson
"What you are to be you are now becoming."
—Carl Rogers
"He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
—Benjamin Franklin
"The happiness of a person in this life does not consist in the absence,
[or overindulgence], but in the mastery of one's passions."
—Alfred Tennyson
"Deny self, for self's sake."
—Benjamin Franklin
"When all is said and done, more is usually said than done."
—Lou Holtz
"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
—Isaac Newton
"Private victories always precede Public victories."
—Stephen R. Covey
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Well begun is half done."
—Benjamin Franklin
"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
Your find the fun and snap! The job's a game!"
—Mary Poppins
"Slow and Steady Wins the Race."
—Aesop
"The JOURNEY of a thousand miles
begins with a single STEP."
—Lao Tzu
"Keep Calm and Carry On."
—Winston Churchill
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
—Winston Churchill
"Be sure you are right; then go ahead."
—Davy Crockett
"Don't wish life were easier; wish YOU were better"
—Jim Rohn
"Faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not,
for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."
—Scripture
"In all of living, have much of fun and laughter.
Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
—Gordon B. Hinckley
"As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow,
as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives."
—Buddha
"Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character.
Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul."
—Sir J. Stevens
"I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes."
—Shakespeare
"I have never let schooling interfere with my education."
—Mark Twain
"In the quiet heart is hidden, sorrow that the eye can't see."
—Susan Evans McCloud
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion,
but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
—Adlai E. Stevenson
"Self-Action Leadership is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion,
but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
—JRJ paraphrasing AES
"She warned him not to be deceived by appearances; for beauty is found within."
—Narrator
(Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast animated film)
"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell.
And for once it might be grand, to have someone understand,
I want so much more than they've got planned...
I want much more than this provincial life."
—Belle
(Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast animated film)
"Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with."
—Thomas Carlyle
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards."
—Benjamin Franklin
"I feel like the boy that stubbed his toe.
It hurt too bad to laugh, but he was too big to cry."
—Abraham Lincoln
"He who takes offense when offense is not intended is a fool.
And he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool."
—Brigham Young
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."
—John Lennon
"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."
—James Edward McCulloch
"Grace is when God gives you
something that you don't deserve,
and mercy is when God doesn't
give you something that you do deserve."
—Anonymous quote oft repeated by: Garth Brooks
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier over time—not that the
nature of the task itself has changed, but our power to do it has increased.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
—T.S. Eliot
"If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the
life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
—Henry David Thoreau
"You've got to work with what you have,
and you've gotta believe that what you have isn't all bad."
—Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams
"We must remember that intelligence is not enough.
Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education."
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Civilization depends upon morality."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The people who are crazy enough to think they
can change the world are the ones who actually do." (128)
—Steve Jobs
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
—Abraham Lincoln
"WORK HARD,
DO THE RIGHT THING,
LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY."
—Lynnda Crowder-Eagle and Kincaid Elementary School
Make good choices;
Do the right thing,
And have a great day at Campbell!
—Kehl Arnson
"A man's finest hour ... is when he lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious."—
Vince Lombardi"Think Big... Believe Big... Act Big... And the results will be big."—
Anonymous"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."—
Aristotle"Success isn't a destination, it's a journey."—
Anonymous
"True success in life can only come when you are true to the uniqueness in you."
—Hyrum W. Smith
"Becoming a leader [or self-action leader] is synonymous with becoming yourself.
It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."
—Warren Bennis
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
—John Greenleaf Whittier
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances, and one man, in his time, plays many parts."
—William Shakespeare
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith,
let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
—Abraham Lincoln
"Where 'ere thou art, act well thy part."
—Anonymous stone inscription
"When you fight, you can never get enough;
but, when you yield you get more than you expected."
—Dale Carnegie
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
—Ecclesiastes 3:1
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
"The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls and interesting people.
Forget yourself."
—Henry Miller
"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
—Henry Miller
"You can have anything you want in life.
But, you cannot have everything you want in life."
—Ruth Stanley Smith Silver
—Dr. JJ
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA
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