Quotes We Like

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” —Princess Diana

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” —Rosalia de Castro, Galician writer

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” —Elizabeth Bowen, British author

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin, politician, inventor, author

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison, American inventor

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” —Babe Ruth, American baseball player

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” —Michel de Montaigne, French author

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore, American actor

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire, French philosopher

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem, journalist and women’s rights advocate

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” —Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights activist

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic and philosopher

“People ask the difference between and a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”  – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” — Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.” — Harriet Martineau, English writer and philosopher

“Access to information is not the same as participation.”  – Marta Morrissey, Lee High School PTSA President