Thoughts    

Whatever you are, be a good one.       Abraham Lincoln     

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.        Mark Twain  

Never, never, never give up.     Winston Churchill     

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single   moment before starting to improve the world.   Anne Frank

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.  Buckminster Fuller   

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott    

To know when you have enough is to be rich.   Lao-Tzu    

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.    Charles Dudley Warner   

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.    Alexander Graham Bell    

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

How to succeed: Try hard enough.   Malcolm Forbes   

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader (1929-1968)

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it.   James Adams

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Chinese Proverb    

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.    Abraham Lincoln    

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt  

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers. Habits change into character.     Ovid

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.    Winston Churchill

Sometimes the stars just need the dust brushed away.   unknown

Reading is the first step towards gaining knowledge. student

Not everyone can be a star but everyone can twinkle.    student

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.    Albert Camus

You can change the world; someone has to.   student

Too many people miss seeing the silver lining because they are expecting gold.   student

It is easier to disregard differences than embrace them.     student

Wisdom is what you get from a life time of listening when you would have preferred to talk.       student

If I can help somebody.....as I pass along

If I can cheer somebody.....with a word or song

If I can show somebody.....he is traveling wrong

Then my living will not be in vain.       Martin Luther King Jr.

Imagination and determination create your reality.   student

The future of tomorrow depends upon today.   student

Maturity begins when a child realizes his parents aren't perfect. It's reached when he forgives them.   unknown

Have no regrets, just lessons.    student

Think like a person of action, act like a person of thought.    unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.    unknown

Too many people expect wonders from a democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.        Walter Winchell

Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible.   unknown

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.       Unknown

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.     Benedict Spinoza

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want.... The fourth is freedom from fear.    Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.        Learned Hand

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.        Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only thing necessary for triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.         Edmund Burke

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something if it consists of all of us.     Woodrow Wilson

Tyranny... is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.       Thomas Paine

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.        Thomas Jefferson

I believe everyone has something positive to contribute to another child, person, animal or the environment.

Strive to set the example not be the example of just another person. student

It's never too late to be what you might have been.       George Eliot

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.     -- Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and politician

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.     Sydney J. Harris,  journalist

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.         L. Thomas Holdcroft, writer

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.      Wayne Gretzky

Don't let your success go to your head and don't let your failures go to your heart.    Coach Phil Jackson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson