" Be yourself, who else is better qualified?"
--- submitted by: Tori Zdeb, age 13
" The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of a great moral crisis."
--- from: Alexis, Age 13
" Life is not a problem to be
solved
But a reality to be experienced."
--- Soren Kierkergard
" I know you believe you understand
what you think I said
But I'm not sure you realize that what you heard
Is not what I meant."
--- Off a poster
" If you're not afraid...
If you take everything you are,
Everything worthwhile in you,
And direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark,
You've got to get there."
--- James Dean
" Twenty years from now you will
be more disappointed
By the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
--- Mark Twain
" Dreams are the beginnings of
the great things in life."
--- Amy, Age 15
" There are many paths to the
top of the mountain,
But the view is always the same."
--- Chinese Proverb
" Errors, like straws, upon
the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below."
--- John Dryden
WHO IS A FRIEND
" When trouble comes your Soul to try
You love the Friend who just "stand by"
Perhaps there's nothing He/She can do
The thing is strictly up to you
For there are troubles all your own
And paths the soul must tread alone
Times when Love cannot smooth the road
Nor Friendship lift the heavy load
But just to know you have a Friend
Who will "stand by" until the end
Whose sympathy through all endures
Who's warm hand clasp is always yours
It helps, someway, to pull you through
Although there's nothing He/She can do
And so with fervent heart I cry
God bless the Friend who just stands by!"
--- Unknown Author
" Music allows our dreams a chance
to sing and dance."
--- Unknown
" I'd rather be a has-been than
a never-been at all."
--- Author Unknown
" Those who have learned - listened,
Those who have skills - practiced,
Those who won - did both."
--- Chris Villeneuve, Age 17
" And in the end, the tortoise
beat the hare!"
--- Chris Pesheck, Age 15
" Advice is what we ask for when
we already know the answer
But wish we didn't."
--- Erica Jong
" When one door of happiness
closes another opens;
But often we look so long at the closed door
That we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
--- Helen Keller
" I don't have problems, just
challenges.
My mistakes and failures are my lessons,
While my triumphs are milestones of my journey in life;
For life would be meaningless
If I ended my journey of learning and improving myself."
--- Soupfish, Age 19
"If you want your place in the
sun, you've got to expect a few blisters."
--- Author Unknown
"There are years that question,
and years that answer."
--- Susan McKallen
"Some succeed because they are
destined to,
but most succeed because
they are determined to."
--- Author Unknown
"Your strength does not come
from life handed to you on a silver platter.
Your greatest strength
comes from the pain you have survived."
--- Michael Karpovich
" I've learned that when adults
tell their children
That the world is too complicated to understand,
They mean it is too cruel for themselves to understand."
--- Lilian Tse, Age 17 --- Hong Kong
" Stand up for what you believe
in, even if your standing alone."
--- from a poster
" Maturity has more to do with
what types of experiences you've had,
And what you've learned from them,
And less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated."
--- Unknown
" Don't let others success' get
in the way of your goals --
Let it motivate you."
--- Lauren Reusche, Age 14
" What lies behind us and what
lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--- Oliver Wendall Holmes
" Years wrinkle the face, but
to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
--- Watterson Lowe
" How far you go in life
Depends on you being tender with the young,
Compassionate with the aged,
Sympathetic with the striving
And tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life, you will have been all of these."
--- George Washington Carver
" Some things are viewed more
clearly when you look away."
--- Bryan Moore, Age 15
" Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
--- Thomas Edison
" No one is ever promised tomorrow,
so make today your best."
--- Author Unknown
" If you run into a wall, don't
turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
--- Michael Jordan
" I've missed more than 9000
shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."
--- Michael Jordan
" A pessimist sees the difficulty
in every opportunity.
An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--- Winston Churchill
" A team's true spirit and character
are revealed
Not when they are winning , but when they are losing."
--- Author Unknown
" Assumption is the first of
all mistakes!"
--- Amber Lynne, Age 19
" Life does not require us to
be the biggest or the best:
It asks only that we try."
--- Unknown
" Our greatest glory is not in
never falling,
But in rising every time we fall."
--- Confucius
" Bad things are always going
to happen in life.
People will hurt you.
But you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
You'll only hurt yourself."
--- Touched by an Angel calendar
" When an emotional injury takes
place,
The body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound.
Let the process happen.
Trust that nature will do the healing.
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes,
You will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware."
--- Mel Colgrove
" Sometimes the help we need
is not the help we want.
Do you know why God put people's faces on the front of their bodies?
Faces are in front so people can see where they're going,
Not where they've been.
We have to go forward, not backward."
--- When Angels Speak by Martha Williamson
" Try not to become a man of
success,
But rather try to become a man of value."
--- Albert Einstein
" Some people think it's holding
on that makes one strong...
Sometimes it's letting go."
--- Unknown
" In the end, only kindness matters."
--- Jewel
" Fear is but the mask of courage."
--- Matthew Portno, Age 17
" Just because someone doesn't
love you in the way you want them to,
Doesn't mean that they don't love you with all they've got."
--- Unknown
" Achievement is largely the
product of steadily raising one's levels
Of aspiration and expectation."
--- Jack Nicklaus
" Some see things as they are
and ask why;
I dream of things that never were and ask why not!"
--- George Bernard Shaw
" If you do not want to be forgotten,
When you are dead and rottin',
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."
--- Benjamin Franklin
" If all the world is a stage...
I want better lighting!"
--- Sarah, Age 15
The Champion
" She does a little more.
The average runner runs until
The breath in her is gone,
But the champion has a goal in mind,
That makes her carry on.
For rest, the average runner begs
When limp, her muscles grow
But the champion runs on leaden legs.
Her spirit makes them go.
The average Runner's complacent
When she's done her best to score
But the champion does her best -
Then she does a little more."
--- Author unknown
" You can complain because rosebushes
have thorns
Or rejoice because the thornbush has a rose..
It is all up to you!"
--- Found on a calendar --- Author unknown
" Heal the past, live the present,
Dream the future."
--- Author unknown
" If you always do what you always
did,
You'll always get what you always got."
--- Lyrics sung by Aerosmith
" We can easily forgive a child
who is afraid of the dark;
The real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
--- Plato
" Failure is not falling down;
It is remaining there when you have fallen."
--- Author unknown
" We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit!"
--- Aristotle
" Your toughest opponent is the
little voice inside you
Telling you to give up."
--- Unknown
" Courage is not the absence
of fear,
But rather the judgment that something else
Is more important than fear."
--- Ambrose Redmoon
" A dream is a wish your heart
makes."
--- Disney's Pinnocio
" Whoever you are,
There is someone younger who thinks you are perfect.
There is some job that will go undone
If you don't do it.
There is someone who would miss you
If you were gone.
There is a space that you alone can fill."
--- Jacob Brande
" A life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable,
But more useful then a life spent doing nothing."
--- Author unknown
"Pobody's nerfect."
--- Author unknown
" There are many things in life
That will catch your eye,
But only a few will catch your heart...
Pursue those."
--- Unknown
" I am not what I think I am....I
am not what you think I am.
I am what I think you think I am."
--- Unknown
" If a window of opportunity
appears,
Don't pull down the shade."
--- Author unknown
" When it is dark enough, you
can see the stars."
--- Charles A. Beard
" Always keep something beautiful
in sight,
even if it is just a daisy in a jam jar."
--- Amy Yates, Age 19
IF by Rudyard Kipling
" If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give away to hating
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thought your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can hear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a work about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kinds-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a man, my son!"
--- Rudyard Kipling
" I asked God for health; that
I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for strength, that I might achieve;
I was made weak, that I might learn to obey.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy;
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;
I was given real life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing I asked for, but everything I had hoped for;
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed."
--- A prayer found in the pocket of a young, unknown, confederate solider
" It takes at least as much courage
to have tried and failed
As it does to have tried and succeeded."
--- Unknown
" Keep your head and your heart
going in the right direction,
And you won't have to worry about you feet."
--- Author Unknown
" Value your friends more than you value the friendship."
--- Angie Carr, Age 14
" To gain that which is worth
having,
it may be necessary to loose everything else."
--- Bernadette Devlin
" Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response to the error that counts."
--- Nikki Giovanni
" Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
--- Author Unknown
" To those who can dream,
There is no such place as faraway."
--- Unknown
" Always be a first rate version
of yourself,
Instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
--- Judy Garland
"Don't compare yourself to what
others are,
But to what you could be."
--- Chele Danforth, Age 13
" Most people are about as happy
As they make their minds up to be."
--- Abraham Lincoln
" Have a ___ day,
You decide what type of day you want to have."
--- Izzy Jolly, Age 17
" Lord, grant that
I may always desire
More than I accomplish."
--- Michelangelo
" Love your enemy...it will drive
him nuts."
--- Author Unknown
" Don't just condition your hair
everyday,
But condition your mind also."
--- Izzy Jolly, Age 17
" Life itself can't give you
joy unless you really will it:
Life just gives you time and space its up to you to fill it."
--- Unknown
" Failure to prepare is preparing
to fail."
--- Unknown
" Knowing is not enough;
We must Apply.
Willing is not enough;
We must Do. "
--- Goethe
What doesn't kill you only
makes you stronger."
--- Author unknown
" You can't get everything you
want in life.
If you did, life would be too easy!"
--- Unknown
" There are always two choices--two
paths to take.
One is easy, and it's only reward is that it's easy."
--- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
" All kids are gifted.
Some just open their packages earlier than others."
--- Michael Carr
" If you aim at nothing your
sure to hit it."
--- Author unknown
" In the world you may be only
one person,
but to one person you may be the world. "
--- Unknown
" Of all sad words of tongue
or pen,
the saddest of these are
What might have been."
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes
" In a world where everyone wants
to excel,
Those who don't want to,
Usually fail."
--- Justin Tysdal, Age 16
Is that which compels a person
to do his or her best work---
Even when no one is looking."
--- Author unknown
" A goal is just a dream with
a deadline."
--- Author Unknown
" Preach the Gospel all the time;
if necessary, use words."
--- St. Francis of Assissi
PRESS ON
" 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 alone will not;
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
--- Author Unknown
" Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadows."
--- Helen Keller
" Always behave like a duck;
Keep calm and unruffled on the surface
But paddle like the crazy underneath."
--- Author Unknown
" What lies behind us and what
lies with in us
Are small matters compared to what lies within us."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" DID - a word of achievement.
WON'T - a word of retreat.
MIGHT - a word of bereavement
CAN'T - a word of defeat.
OUGHT - a word of duty.
TRY - a word each hour.
WILL - a word of beauty.
CAN - a word of power."
--- Author unknown
" If I could live by only two
words, these would be them:
Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)"
--- Beau D. Hollowell, Age 18
" Experience is what you get
when you don't get what you want."
--- Author unknown
" If we spend all our time imagining
a better world, a different world,
Then we miss the best part of this world."
--- Unknown
" If you spend all your time
dreaming of who you want to be,
Then you are wasting who you are."
--- Author unknown
" Do not cry for help unless
you need it,
And when you need it,
Do not cry if it does not come."
--- Unknown
" Nothing is so strong as gentleness;
Nothing so gentle as real strength."
--- Francis of Sales
" Nothing great has ever been
achieved without enthusiasm!"
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" A bend in the road is not the
end of the road
Unless you fail to make the turn."
--- Unknown
" Most people realize the good
things,
Only when they are about to run out."
--- Unknown
" In sports, there is always
someone trying to stop you,
in class the only person stopping you IS you."
--- Unknown
" In one success, one thousand
failures lie forgotten.
In one refusal to try,
One thousand successes lie never to be achieved."
--- Author Unknown
" As a recovering perfectionist
I know I could procrastinate but... well, maybe later."
--- Shane Sorenson Pond
" Don't think that one assignment
won't make a difference."
--- Michael Reed
" Success is preparation meeting
up with opportunity."
--- Author unknown
" 95% of achieving anything is
knowing what you want
And paying the price to get it."
--- Author unknown
" Anybody can sympathize with
the sufferings of a friend,
But it requires a very fine nature
To sympathize with a friend's success."
--- Oscar Wilde
" Life is like a wave...
Some will catch it,
And others will just bail out."
--- Anonymous
" Although the world is full
of suffering,
It is also full of overcoming it."
--- Helen Keller
" We cannot go back and make
a new start,
But we can start now to make a new ending."
--- Jeff, Age 16
" Nothing lasts forever--not
even your troubles."
--- Unknown
" Winners never quit,
Quitters never win."
--- Vince Lombardi
" Success is when you can look
at yesterday without regret...
And tomorrow without fear."
--- Jeanine Graham --- (teen from Florida)
" Every new beginning comes from
some other beginning's end."
--- Semisonic
" When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life in such a manner that when you die,
The world cries and you rejoice."
--- Indian Proverb
" Being normal is just a figment
of everyone else's imagination."
--- Carissa Langille --- (teen from Virginia)
" It is not length of life, but
depth of life."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" There is nothing in the world
stronger, than gentleness."
--- Han Suyin
" Blessed is he who has learned
To admire but not envy,
To follow but not imitate,
To praise but not flatter,
And to lead but not manipulate."
--- W.A.Ward
" The forest is magnificent,
yet it contains no perfect trees."
--- Gye Fram
" The past is behind; learn from
it.
The present is here; live in it.
The future is ahead; prepare for it."
--- Author unknown
Men decide their habits...
And their habits decide their futures."
--- Brandon Prenger, Age 17 --- Michigan
" The pain of losing someone
Is small compared to the loss
Of not knowing them at all."
--- Ruby V. Marcelo, Age 16 --- Hawaii
" What's right isn't always popular,
And what's popular isn't always right."
--- Unknown
" We do not realize how loved
people are,
Until they are no longer."
--- Jimmy Cannatti, Age 18 --- Ohio
" There are two ways to slide
easily through life:
To believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking."
--- Alfred Korybski
" Don't ask meaningless questions
And you won't get meaningless answers.
Ask something with a full heart
And you might get somewhere."
--- Samantha H., Age 14 --- North Carolina
" Free your mind and your feet
will follow."
--- Unknown
" Destiny is not a matter of
chance,
It's a matter of choice;
It is not a thing to be waited for,
It is a thing to be achieved."
--- William Jennings Bryant
" If you can dream it, you can
do it."
--- Walt Disney
" You and only you can make yourself
happy."
--- Kristen Albring, Age 15 --- Michigan
" What you are becoming is more
important
Than what you are accomplishing."
--- Unknown
" Focus on the doughnut, not
the hole."
--- Unknown
or every hill I've had to climb,
My heart sings but a grateful song.
These are the things that make me strong."
--- Anonymous
" The more I traveled, the more
I realized
That fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
--- Shirley MacLane
" Be careful what you say.
Because once said can never be taken back,
And words are what hurt the most!"
--- Alix Scoblionko, Age 14 --- Pennsylvania
" Success is an inside job."
--- Ralph Ford
" We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--- Aristotle
" Teens don't turn you back on
your parents
Because they are hard on you in High School,
Because one of these days,
You will need their love and loyalty."
--- Lacy Downs, Age 17 --- Texas
" Vision...It reaches beyond
the thing that is,
Into conception of what can be."
--- Betty Collier
" You were born with wings.
Why prefer to crawl through life?"
--- Rumi
" No man is an island, entire
of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main."
--- John Donne
" In order to get the most out
of something,
It is necessary to put something into it."
--- Unknown
" A stranger is only someone
you haven't met yet."
--- Unknown
" The strongest people are not
always the people who win,
But the people who don't give up when they lose."
--- Ashley Hodgeson
" Friendship: a building contract
you sign with laughter
And break with tears."
--- Anonymous
" When I die I will regret more
the things I didn't do
Than the things I did."
--- Author unknown
" Pain nourishes courage.
You can't be brave,
If you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
--- Author Unknown
" Worry is the misuse of imagination."
--- Unknown
" Within ourselves are the seeds
of triumph or defeat."
--- Longfellow
" The Challenge is not to win,
But to conquer the fear.
It is not the other people you have to beat,
It is your self."
--- Janine's swimming coach (Ontario, Canada)
" If you are disliked by someone
And you dislike them for that reason
Then you have begun to dislike yourself."
--- Ross Hamilton, Age 15
"Dont take life too seriously, no one has ever been known to make it out
alive."
--- Tori Zdeb, age 13
