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Learning and Growing at Every Age
(Yes, Parents Too!)

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.  The human mind is our fundamental resource." - John F. Kennedy

"Discipline is teaching." - Center for Child Well Being

"Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere." - Chinese proverb

“We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle

"The ladder of success doesn't care who climbs it." -Frank Tyger

"If you treat people as if they were what they ought to be, you help them become what they are capable of being." -Johann Goethe

"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning.  But anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."  - Booker T. Washington

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks." - Author unknown

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -Wayne Gretzky

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"Go ahead and make mistakes.  Make all you can.  Because remember, that's where you'll find success."  - Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather

"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure more lasting." - Mary Wortley Montagu

"Goals determine what you're going to be." - Julius ("Dr. J") Erving

"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak." -  Author Unknown

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