"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." – Robert H. Schuller

“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence." - bell hooks

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Time and again, history has shown us that there is nothing – nothing – more powerful than ordinary citizens coming together for a just cause." – Michelle Obama

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – W.B. Yeats

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand” -Oprah Winfrey

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.” – Konstantin Stanislavski

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” – Toni Morrison

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." –Audre Lorde

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: you create a good future by creating a good present.” —Eckhart Tolle

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” —Rumi