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SAMPLE QUOTATIONS “When things go wrong, don’t go with them." – Elvis Presley, American singer (1935‐1977) "The day you quit school, you condemn yourself to a future of poverty." — Jaime Escalante, Bolivian‐born American high school teacher, inspiration for the movie Stand and Deliver (b. 1930) "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing oneself." — Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828‐1910) "Unshared joy is an unlighted candle." — Spanish proverb "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." — Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1809‐1865) "When one helps another, both gain in strength." — Ecuadorian proverb "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." — Mark Twain, American humorist, writer and lecturer (1835‐1910) "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." — Professor Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." — Unknown "I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for persons to depend simply upon themselves." — — Lone Man (Isna‐la‐wica) Teton Sioux "It is the mark of a true education to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." — Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384 B.C.‐322 B.C.) "Prejudice is the child of ignorance." — William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic (1778‐1830) "There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference." — Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian essayist and political writer (1832‐1889) There are many websites with collections of quotations (google “quotations”): http://www.inspirational‐quotes.info/; http://charactercounts.org/programs/FFL/weekly‐archive.html; http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/; http://www.brainyquote.com/; http://www.quotationspage.com/ See http://lol.centerforcharacterethics.org/ for more information or email [email protected]