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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
