Quotes

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing...” Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd president of the United Statesprincipal author of the Declaration of Independence

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." - Bob Dylan

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~ Nelson Mandela

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." ~ William Yeats

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."-- Arland Gilbert

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." -- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success." -- Vauvenargues

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

"I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."-- Persian saying, Ancient

"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961)

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -- Margaret Drabble (1939-)

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."—Jean Webster

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."-- Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles Du Bos (1882-1939) French literary critic

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before." Bonnie Blair (1964 - ) Olympic speed skater U.S. history’s most-decorated winter athlete