Amanda K. Howard

“I hate being inside. I feel closed-off and want to get away! I love doing almost anything outside except being cold.”

Amber Nicole Ward

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are just small matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angelica Parkinson

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
-Philippians 3:12-14, Holy Bible, NKJV

Anna Hollander

“I can do all things through him who gives me strength.”
-Phil. 4:13

Anna Naussbaum

“That which cannot be spoken can be sung, that which cannot be sung can be danced.”
-Old French Proverb

Ben Watland

“Carpe Diem!”

Bihn Phu Do

“Never leave what you can do today for tomorrow.”

Brynn Neibaur

“The smile that is worth the praises of the earth is the smile that shines through the tears.”
-Edna Wheeler Wilcox

Carly Haley

“Live today like tomorrow is your last day on earth.”

Cindy Hanson

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

Collette Clark

“Be grateful. Be smart. Be clean.Be true. Be humble. Be prayerful.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley

Darcie Littler

“Remember, everyone has the will to win. Few have the will to prepare. It is the preparation that counts.”

Darcy Helmick

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
-Mother Teresa

Deborah Fuller

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.”
-Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Elizabeth R. Bento

“. . . And the world is puddlewonderful . . .”
- e.e. cummings

Ellen Freestone

“I can do all things through him who gives me strength.”
Phil. 4:13

Emily A. Holzmer

“When we feel strongly about something, we will lead, we will act, even if others are not prepared to join us.”
-Secretary of StateColin Powell

Emily McMullin

Erik Linn

“Even if strength fails, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have had the will is enough.”
-Sextus Propertius

Flint Espil

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

Garrett Webb

“The way I see it, you’ve got two choices – you either gotta get busy livin’ or you get busy dyin’.”
-From the Shawshank Redemption

Jacquelyn Miller

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
- Gahndi

Jasmine Harris

“My mom always says,
‘No matter what, given timethe cream will always rise to the top and the rest will fall. You may never see this happen, but in some way those who don’t work for everything they get will suffer the consequences.’ ”

Jasmine Lopez

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
-George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright

Jesseca Rathke

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.”

Joanna Cook

“The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it.”
-Moliere

Kathleen McRill

“The important thing is this: to be ready at any given moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”
-Charles Dubois

Krystal Hitchcock

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

Laurel Eagan

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Marcy Morrow

“I admire all of the hard working, middle class people in America. They are honest, ambitious, and very resilient. Without them, we would not have the great country that we have.”

Mary Sherwood

“You cannot always control the circumstances in your life, but you can control your attitude towards them.”

Meagan C. Addey

“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”
-George Carlin

Meghan Sederholm

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave their footprints on our hearts. And we are never ever the same.”

Natalia V. Bespyatova

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
- Pamela Vaull Starr

Nicholas Earl

“It doesn’t matter where you were. It only matters where you’re going.”

Rebecca Bunn

Learning
Working
Growing

Rebecca Supp

“Why not?”

Seth Collins

“Make school your priority and not your wish.”

Sheeba Glidewell

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”

Sheena Lee Kuhn

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

Stacie Wallin

“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you, not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.’”
-Jeremiah 29:11

Stephanie Clark

“I would like to teach grades 3-5, and help children the way my teachers helped me.”

Stephanie Katona

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stephanie Tolman

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Steven Vawser

“Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”

Terra Taylor

“Love to live, live to learn, and learn to love.”

Vedran Skoro

"People don't stop laughing and having fun because they get old, they get old because they stop laughing and having fun."
-Anonymous

Angelica Parkinson

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
-Philippians 3:12-14, Holy Bible, NKJV

Melissa Wise

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
-Henry Brook Adams

Jane Morgan

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