Aspiration:
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin

Confidence:
“They are because they think they are able.” Virgil

Courage:
“Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of it.” Mark Twain

Determination:
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.” Honore De Balzac

Faith:
“The steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath.” Walt Whitman

Peace:
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” Victor Hugo

Principle:
“Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” John Watson

Opportunity:
“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.” Robert Louis Stevenson

Life:
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” Fredrick Buechner

Love:
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Laughter:
“Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, worker and driver. They have become a single group of human beings, enjoying their existence.” W. Grant Lee

Gifts:
“Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Other quotes students & others shared with me along the way.....

Happiness:
“Happiness is not having what you want, but being happy with what you have.”  Jesse Gross

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”  Agnes Repplier

Other Quotes I’ve found along the way:

Education:
“To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin."         Bell Hooks

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” Booker T. Washington

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."  Malcom X

“Have a vision, allow yourself to dream, work hard to fulfill that dream and always be open to learn.” Eloise DeLap - retired nurse, faculty, and Director of Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, MO

“I’ve learned to win by learning to lose - that means not being afraid of losing.” Jeff Blatnick, USA Olympic Wresling, 1980, 1984

“Success is a journey not a destination.” Bob Beaman, USA Olympic Track & Field, 1968

“It’s not a matter of knowing the answers, but knowing the questions to ask.” Alexandra Armstrong

Kindness:
“Speak tenderly to them.  Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting.  Always have a cheerful smile.  Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.”  Mother Teresa

"I expect to pass through this world but once.  Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.  Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."   William Penn

"What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"  George Eliot

“The best way to win over your enemy is to make him your friend.”  Abe Lincolin

Life:
" Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life.  In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. 

For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. 

Look well, therefore, to this day, such is the salutation of the dawn."
The SUFI, 1200 BC (from the Sanskrit)

"In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit."  Robert F. Kennedy: 

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys.  For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”  Rainer Maria Rilke

“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
John Wesley - Founder of the Methodist Movement

“There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.”  Lyndon B. Johnson

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.  Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.”   Louis L`Amour

“The truth is that part of the essence of mountain climbing is to push one’s self to one’s limits.  Inevitably this involves risks, otherwise they would not be one’s limits.  This is not to say that you deliberately try something you know you can’t do.  But you do deliberately try something which you are not sure you can do.”   Woodrow Wilson Sayre

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasim.”.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

Healing:
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear the call and answer in extraordinary ways.”  Mother Teresa

All the following quotes were taken from:

Carter-Scott, C.  (1998).  If life is a game, these are the rules. New York:  Broadway Books.

Life
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”  Helen Keller

Body
“You will receive a body.  You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.”  Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Acceptance:
“I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.”  Louise Hay

Self-Esteem
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

Respect
“Your body is your vehicle for life.  As long as you are here, live in it.  Love, honor, respect and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind.”  Suzy Prudden

Pleasure
“It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”  Bruce Springsteen

Lessons
“You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life.”  Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.  You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.”  Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

There Are No Mistakes, Only Lessons
Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories.  The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.”  Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

A Lesson is Repeated Until Learned
“Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them.  When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Learning Does Not End
“There is no part of like that does not contain lessons.  If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Ethics
“There are no mistakes, no coincidences.  All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Openness
“When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the domain of the soul.”  Jon Kabat-Zinn

Choice
“I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”  Booker T. Washington

Fairness
“I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”  Author Unknown

Grace
“You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.”  Harold Kushner

Compassion
“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference.  He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”  Norman Cousins

Forgiveness
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”  Alexander Pope

Humor
“It is of immense importance to lean to laugh at ourselves.”  Katherine Mansfield

Awareness
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”  Henry David Thoreau

Willingness
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best - only that we try our best.”  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Causality
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”  Sir Isaac Newton

Patience
“Be patient.  You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”  Ram Dass

Surrender
“Surrender doesn’t obstruct our power;  it enhances it.”  Marianne Williamson

Commitment
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”  Thomas Edison

Humility
“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”  Kahlil Gibran

Flexibility
“To improve is to change;  to be perfect is to change often.”  Winston Churchill

“There” Is No Better Than “Here”
“When your “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain a “there” that will look better to you than your present “here.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Gratitude
“When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.”  Cheri Huber

Unattatchment
“Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.”  Joan Borysenko

Abundance
“The richest person is the one who is contented with what he has.”  Robert C. Savage

Peace
“There is nothing to do but be.”  Stephen Levine

Others Are Only Mirrors Of You
“You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Tolerance
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”  Carl Jung

Clarity
“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”  Jerry Garcia

Healing
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”  Hippocrates

Support
“There are two ways of spreading light:  to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”  Edith Wharton

What You Make Of Your Life Is Up To You
“You have all the tools and resources you need.  What you do with them is up to you.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Responsibility
“We have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.”  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Release
“Learn to let go.  That is the key to happiness.”  The Buddha

Courage
“Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace.”  Amelia Earhart

Power
“There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.”  Henry Ford

Adventure
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”  Helen Keller

Boldness
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Your Answers Lie Inside Of You
“All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Listening
“Consciousness is nothing but awareness  the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.”  Deepak Chopra

Trust
“Trust thyself;  every heart vibrates to that iron sting.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration
“In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.”  Sark

You Will Forget All Of This At Birth
“You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.” Taken from:   If life is a game these are the rules, by Cherie Carter-Scott, 1998.

Faith
“Faith is a gift of the spirit that allows the soul to remain attached to its own unfolding.  Thomas Moore

Wisdom
“We don’t receive wisdom;  we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”  Marcel Proust

Limitlessness
“What we call results are beginnings.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

Anonymous Quotes:

“Obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”

“Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.”

“Remember, nothing is impossible.”  A sign I saw off the road on the MS 150 bike ride.

“Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape!”

“Enjoy life today. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.”

“There is no elevator to success.  You have to take the stairs.”

“Give a man a fish, feed him for a night. Teach a man how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.”

“Excellence can be attained if you . . . . Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”

“Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong.”  Engraved in Missouri State Capitol

“People don’t care what you know until they know that your care.”  from Kaye Dryden

"I can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because the thornbush has a rose."  from Rachel Willis

“...we leave behind the past, never to be recaptured, but always to be remembered.  Our experiences as individuals shape the persons we are.”        Jana Keith, R.N.C.

“Don’t use time or words carelessly.”

“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.”

“Leave everything a little better then you found it.”

“Never give up on anybody.  Miracles happen every day.”

“Work like you don’t need the money....Love like you’ve never been hurt....Dance like nobody’s watching!”

“The person who is saying that it cannot be done is interrupting the person who is doing it.”

“Reach for the moon.  Even if you miss, you’ll be among the stars.”

“Those who think they can and those who think they can’t are both right.”

“A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of things.”

“Life has a way of coloring your living but it's YOU that chooses the colors.”

“Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

“Nurse:  Your caring attitude heals like a prayer and is a light of love.”  Marci

“The bonds we have are everlasting.”  Marci (Liscened by Art Impressions)

“As life's plan unfolds, we come to realize that what is important is our relatiohships with our family, our friends, and the divine.  My wish is that you use these gifts for every occasion - to enhance relationships, to say I love you, or just as an acknowledgement that the bonds we form are as everlasting as the spirit.  Enjoy.”  Marci (Liscened by Art Impressions)

Action:
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”  Theodore Roosevelt

“No one know what he can do till he tries.”  Pubililus Syrus

“Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.  Anonymous

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

“The strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”  Ashley Hodgeson

Opportunity:
“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Self-Esteem:
“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.?” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patriotism:
“We do the difficult right away.  The impossible, takes a little longer.”  Admiral Ben Moreell

“There are no great men.  There are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.”  Admiral Halsey

“Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”  John F. Kennedy, 29 Jan., 1961

“There must be a willingness to march a little farther, carry a heavier load, to step into the dark and unknown for the safety and well-being of others.”  General Creghton Abrams

Culture:
“Each person's map of the world is as unique as the person's thumbprint. There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way .  .  . So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be. --” Milton Erickson