"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
-George W. Bush
Freedom
"For you have been called to live in freedom. Use your freedom to serve one another in love."
-Galatians 5:13
Change
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
-Barack Obama
Perseverance
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
-Donald Trump
Purpose
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
-Gabriel García Márquez
Positivity
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde
Character
"Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are."
-Carlos Santana
Courage
"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."
-Ovid
Courage
"Fortune sides with him who dares."
-Virgil
Truth
“I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.”
-Taizan Maezumi Roshi
God
“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.”
-Anandamoyi Ma
Joyfulness
"Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"
-Theodore Martin Hesburgh
Openness
"That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Improvement
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-Plutarch
Enlightenment
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato
Happiness
"Learn to carry all the conditions of happiness within yourself... Whatever your environment is, don’t allow your inner peace to be touched by it."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Service
"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
-Ronald Reagan
Opportunity
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller
Desire
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-Dalai Lama
