NELD 2005 Graduation Quotes:
ROSEMARY BROWN: Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. LAO TZU: When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves". ANAIS NIN: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY: A goal without a plan is just a wish. ANAIS NIN: We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. ANAIS NIN: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. JOHN DRYDEN: We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ARISTOTLE: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. VINCE LOMBARDI: Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. JIMMY CARTER: We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. JOHN F. KENNEDY: If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR: We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.