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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.”

EDWARD "TED" KENNEDY
US SENATOR
VOLUNTEERING

“Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.”

JOSH HINDS
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, AUTHOR
OPTIMISM

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

LARRY KING
TELEVISION TALK SHOW HOST
OPPORTUNITY

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU
NATURALIST, AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER
COMPLIMENTS

“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.”

MARGARET J. WHEATLEY
WRITER, CONSULTANT
KINDNESS

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”

DOUG LARSON
CARTOONIST
EQUALITY

“Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone's life.”

JAMES MANN
AUTHOR
RIGHT CHOICES

“Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.”

FREDERICK BUECHNER
EDUCATOR, WRITER, THEOLOGIAN
ACHIEVEMENT

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
ACTIVIST, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
APPRECIATION

“Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed, Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... 'The world is better that I lived to-day.'”

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
POET
RIGHT CHOICES

“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”

ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE
POET
PEACE

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”

UNKNOWN
LOYALTY

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

PEACE PILGRIM
PACIFIST, PEACE-ACTIVIST
TRUST

“Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.”

ARTHUR JERSILD
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
PERSEVERANCE

“Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.”

DEEPAK K. CHOPRA
PHYSICIAN, WRITER
CIVILITY

“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.”

ARNOLD TOYNBEE
ECONOMIC HISTORIAN, SOCIAL REFORMER
OPTIMISM

“Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.”

DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER
RADIO HOST, AUTHOR
TEAMWORK

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON
3RD U.S. PRESIDENT
HONESTY

“A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.”

UNKNOWN
RISING ABOVE

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

NATALIE GOLDBERG
AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
EQUALITY

“Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

GEORGE HERBERT
POET, ORATOR, PRIEST
LAUGHTER

“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.”

CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT
AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
SHARING

“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”

UNKNOWN
SACRIFICE

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”

ROBERT FULGHUM
AUTHOR, PASTOR
INTEGRITY

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

W. ANTON CHEKOV
PLAYWRIGHT, SHORT-STORY WRITER, PHYSICIAN
CHARITY

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

PEACE PILGRIM
PACIFIST, PEACE-ACTIVIST
EQUALITY

“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.”

ALEX NOBLE
HONESTY

“Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”

JIM ROHN
ENTREPRENEUR, AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
INCLUDING OTHERS

“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.”

JOHN LUBBOCK
BIOLOGIST, POLITICIAN
MENTORING

“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.”

MARY KAY ASH
ENTREPRENEUR
DETERMINATION

“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.”

PEARL BAILEY
SINGER, ACRESS
SMILE

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

BILL BRADLEY
AMERICAN HALL OF FAME BASKETBALL PLAYER, RHODES SCHOLAR
AMBITION

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.”

BRIAN TRACY
MOTIVATIONAL AUTHOR
PERSEVERANCE