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“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”

RONALD REAGAN
40TH U.S. PRESIDENT
CHARACTER

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ”

HENRY WARD BEECHER
CLERGYMAN, SOCIAL REFORMER
BELIEVE

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ”

LAO TZU
PHILOSOPHER
AMBITION

“There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.”

MICHAEL MILKEN
FINANCIER AND PHILANTHROPIST
GIVING BACK

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.”

IVY BAKER PRIEST
POLITICIAN
OPPORTUNITY

“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!”

SASHA AZEVEDO
ENTERTAINER
DRIVE

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
PHILOSOPHER, SCIENTIST, AUTHOR
HONESTY

“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ”

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
SWEDISH POLITICAL LEADER, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS
PATIENCE

“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
AUTHOR AND POET
LIVE LIFE

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ”

JACQUES COUSTEAU
MARINE BIOLOGIST, DIVER, EXPLORER
OPPORTUNITY

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”

SUSAN SARANDON
ACTRESS
INSPIRATION

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. ”

BARBARA BUSH
WIFE OF THE 41ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
MAKING A DIFFERENCE

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”

JACQUES COUSTEAU
MARINE BIOLOGIST, DIVER, EXPLORER
CLASS AND GRACE

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

ABIGAIL ADAMS
U.S. FIRST LADY (1797-1801)
OPTIMISM

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

SAINT AUGUSTINE
ROMAN CATHOLIC SAINT
HUMILITY

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

LOUIS L'AMOUR
AMERICAN AUTHOR.
PERSEVERANCE

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

ORSON SCOTT CARD
AMERICAN AUTHOR, CRITIC, PUBLIC SPEAKER AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTIVIST.
CHARACTER

“A man may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. And no matter how strong competition is, business and personal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody.”

WILLIAM H. HAMBY
AUTHOR
PERSISTENCE

“If we do not lay ourselves at the service of mankind, whom should we serve?”

JOHN ADAMS
2ND U.S. PRESIDENT
INGENUITY

“For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. ”

JOEY TOLBERT
POET
INGENUITY

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ”

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
NOVELIST, SCREENWRITER
INSPIRATION

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

NELSON MANDELA
FORMER PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
MOTIVATION

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ”

ALBERT CAMUS
AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER
FRIENDSHIP

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ”

ALBERT SCHWEITZER
PHILOSOPHER, PHYSICIAN, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER
ENCOURAGEMENT

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ”

SOPHIA LOREN
ACTRESS
GIVING BACK

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
WRITER, CARTOONIST, ANIMATOR
SPORTSMANSHIP

“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”

MOTHER TERESA
FOUNDER OF THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY
APPRECIATION

“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”

DR. LEO BUSCAGLIA
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR
PERSEVERANCE

“Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.”

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH
WRITER
HONESTY

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG
ACTRESS, RADIO HOST, AUTHOR, COMEDIAN
PRACTICE

“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
WRITER, CARTOONIST, ANIMATOR
HELPING OTHERS

“Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.”

SISTER MARY CORITA KENT
ARTIST, EDUCATOR
CHARACTER

“Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident, and it can handle whatever comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from mistakes...Class is comfortable in its own skin. It never puts on airs. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. If you have class, you've got it made. ”

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN [PAULINE PHILLIPS]
COLUMNIST
PASSION
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