Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool; than to open it and remove all doubt.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
--Baltasar Gracian

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson

I hope I always have firmnessand virtue enough to maintain, what I considerthe most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
--George Washington

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
--Elvis Presley

If you tell the truth, you won't have to remember anything.
--Mark Twain

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
--George Elliot

The highest result of education is tolerance.
--Helen Keller

Dream as if you live forever, live as if you die today.
--James Dean

"It is not the honor that you take with you, But the heritage that you leave behind."

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Bacz

To live is the rarest thing in the world, most people just exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
B. Olantunji

It is our choices who show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.
Confucius

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus

Don't let what you can't do, stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden

Trust the dreams for hidden in them is the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams.
Henry David Thoreauare

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

You see things; and you say "Why?"But I dream things that neverwere; and I say "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw

Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
*Marcia Wieder*

Mistakes only make us stronger.

Life is hard, but not impossible.

Happiness will never come to people that fail to appreciate what the already have.

Everything happens for a reason.

People too weak to pursue their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides

The only time you lose is when you don't try.

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
- Yoda

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

No matter what direction you start, it's always against the wind coming back.

Decide, commit, succeed.

3 choices in life: give up, give in, or give it your all.

Pain and suffering ends only when you want it to. Put your past behind you and move forward. Never back down from what life throws at your face.

Life is like a roller coaster. You have your ups and downs, but it the end it's worth the ride.

Live life. Laugh often. Love Much.
I've done things I wouldn't do again. I have made mistakes in my life, but I don't regret anything becuase I've learned my lesson.
Live life as if you'll die today, but dream as if you live forever.

Don't try and duck from what life throws you, learn to catch it and throw it back.

Life is about trusting our feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, and learning from the past.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life's a climb, but the view is great.

A winner works at it until he gets it right, a champion works at it until he can't get it wrong.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. *Martha Graham*

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

30 years from now, it won't matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or the jeans you bought,what will matter is what you learned and how you used it.

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken!

Always stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone.