Take me to -- Words of Wisdom '98-'99

9/1/99 "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -- Sam Ewing

9/7/99 "Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us." -- Sam Huff

9/9/99 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

9/13/99 "The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is what you make of it."

9/15/99 "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller

9/17/99 "There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves." -- Lyndon B. Johnson

9/21/99 "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." -- William Arthur Ward

9/23/99 "You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down."

9/27/99 "The answers to three questions will determine your success or failure. (1) Can people trust you to do your best? (2) Are you committed to the task at hand? (3) Do you care about other people and show it? If the answers to all these questions are yes, there is no way that you can fail." -- Lou Holtz

9/29/99 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

10/5/99 "You're the only one who can make a difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it." -- Earvin "Magic" Johnson

10/7/99 "Don't be content by being average. Being average means you are as near to the bottom as you are to the top."

10/11/99 "We first make our habits, then our habits make us." -- John Dryden

10/18/99 "Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is a process; Working together is success." -- Henry Ford

10/20/99 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

10/22/99 "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." -- Fred Shero

10/26/99 "Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most do because they are determined to."

10/28/99 "A diamond is a chunk of coal that performed well under pressure."

11/1/99 "Happiness can be thought, taught, and caught -- but not bought."

11/3/99 "If you do the best you can, you find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else." -- William Feather

11/8/99 "If you don't climb the mountain you can't see the view."

11/10/99 "Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." -- William Jennings Bryant

11/15/99 "Eat, Sleep, . . .RUMBLE!" -- Sheena, April, and Rachelle (6th Period)

11/18/99 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

11/22/99 "If you are honest with yourself and can look in a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done." -- John Havlicek

11/30/99 "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- Norman Schwarzkopf

12/3/99 "The statistics on death are rather startling, one out of every one person will die. Live today, don't wait for tomorrow."

12/7/99 "Minds are like parachutes -- not much good unless they are open."

12/13/99 "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." -- JFK

12/15/99 "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

12/20/99 "In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing." -- Theodore Roosevelt

1/4/00 "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch." -- JFK

1/12/00 "Triumph is just umph added to try."

1/27/00 "You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself." -- Don Shula

2/7/00 "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa

2/15/00 "In most cases, IQ is less important to a person's education than I will."

3/6/00 "Happiness comes when we stop complaining about our troubles and begin to be thankful for the troubles we don't have."

3/8/00 "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -- St. Francis of Assisi

3/13/00 "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." -- Aldous Huxley

3/21/00 "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find." -- JFK

4/10/00 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -- Soren Kierkegaard

4/12/00 "Two ways to get to the top of an oak tree -- climb it or sit on an acorn."

4/14/00 "The chains of habit are usually too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."