1. You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way. --Lena Horne

2. Teachers who care accept no excuses. --William Glasser

3. We…believe that one reason so many high school and college students have so much trouble focusing on their studies is because they don’t have a goal, don’t know what all this studying is leading to. – Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward

4. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very very hard. --Helen Gurley Brown

5. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. --Virginia Woolf

6. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. -- Albert Einstein

7. A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. --Gene Roddenberry

8. I believe it is prompt accountability for one’s choices, a willing acceptance of responsibility for one’s thoughts, behavior, and actions that make one’s soul powerful. -- Alice Walker

9. Without hard work and personal discipline, students will fail no matter how we improve schools. – William Glasser

10. In a nutshell, whatever a teacher can do to increase the value of learning to students and to help students hold optimistic and positive expectations about their own ability to succeed, will aid motivation. -- K. Patricia Cross

11. I think goals should never be easy; they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time. --Michael Phelps

12. Where you are doesn’t matter; it’s about where you’re going. --Will Smith

13. Alone we can do so little... together we can do so much. --Helen Keller

14. Our second worst assumption as teachers is that if we don’t cover something in class, the students won’t learn it. Our worst assumption is that if we do, they will. --Richard Felder

15. Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. – Louise Beal

16. Children often become what their parents tell them they are. -- Thomas Gordon Children often become what their parents tell them they are. -- Thomas Gordon

17. Only the educated are free. --Epictetus

18. Tell me and I will forget, teach me and I will remember, involve me and I will learn. --Benjamin Franklin

20. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi

21. I have discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. -- Judith M. Knowlton