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KEEP IT KLEAN!
- Katrina Krewe

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Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. --Mark Victor Hansen

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.

Tough times never last, but tough people do! --Robert Schuller

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. --Tom Bodett

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them. -Shawn Alexander

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melodie Beattie

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. -Tryon Edwards

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. - Anonymous

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Dubois

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax"

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. -Bill Blackman

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Joshua J. Marine

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.- Hugh Prather

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.- Shakespeare

There is no education like adversity.- Benjamin Disraeli

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - Anonymous

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-Bernice Johnson Reagon

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened? - Anonymous

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Anonymous

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.- Author Unknown

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.- William B. Sprague

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.- Theodore Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.- Confucius

If you're not doing something now to help, I don't know what you're waiting for.
- Saints Cornerback Mike McKenzie

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days...But let us begin." - Pres JFK

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."- Margaret Mead

Press on! A better fate awaits thee." -Victor Hugo

You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." - Elbert Hubbard

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The key to happiness and success is to have a dream.

Do it now! You become successful the moment you start.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. - Abraham Lincoln

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.- Lily Tomlin

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. - Goethe

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.- Felix Adler

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?- George Bernard Shaw

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.- John F. Kennedy

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.- Oliver Wendall Holmes

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.- Robert Kennedy

We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place. - Joan Goodall

Man's greatness lies in being faithful to the present moment.-Ven.Solanus Case

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

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

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make. -Gorden B. Hinkley

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -John D. Rockefeller

We will either find a way or make one. -Hannibal

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before. -Jacob Riis

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -Vince Lombardi

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -Tommy Lasorda

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. -Kathy Seligman

Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther. -Orison Swett Marden

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. -Terry Josephson

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
-Ralph Blum

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. - Brian Tracy

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -Albert Schweitzer

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.- Mary Engelbreit

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways, truer answers, or more beautiful, promising potentialities."-M. Scott Peck

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. -Edmund Hillary

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. ~Christian Morgenstern

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
- John Howard Payne

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris

My home is not a place, it is people. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.- Ella Fitzgerald

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.- Bob Proctor

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.- Kurt Hahn

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! - Alfred A. Montapert

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand

To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.- Tony Dorsett

Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to.

Normal people worry me.

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.

It takes a player to shoot a shot.. but it takes a team to win a game. - Penny Anae

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you ever. ~ Holly Marie Combs

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale

Instead of running for cover every time trouble crosses your path, why not turn the tables by welcoming each problem you encounter as an opportunity?- Greg Hickman

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.- John Lubbock

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.- Harriet Tubman

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.-- Frank A. Clark

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. -Norman Vincent Peale

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.- Kahlil Gibran

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. - The Rolling Stones

One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself becomes easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. - Ralph Emerson

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' - The Talmud
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable..Every step toward the goal requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. - Barbara Hall

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. - Thomas Monson

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - John Quincy Adams

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. - Henry Doherty

If there is no struggle there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality. -Mark Victor Hansen

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. - Norman Vincent Peale

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. - Malcolm Forbes

Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. - John Heywood

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. ~William Arthur Ward

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. ~Woody Allen

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

"Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now!" - Luther Vandross

We can either live with it, or do something about it.- Bec

Keep it Klean! - Katrina Krewe