"Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." Ralph Waldo Emerson (thanks to Mr. Brandt for this quote)

(and thanks to Mr. Cox for all the following quotes)

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted." D. Bly

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." A. Lincoln

"You can't build a reputation on something you're going to do." H. Ford

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." Sophocles (i dunno 'bout you guys, but i'd go with the latter one)

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." E. Nightingale

"Whether you think you can, or you can't, you're probably right." Anonymous (my favorite)

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." L. Holts

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." A. Munthe

"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention." L. Esenberg

"It's not that people plan to fail, they just fail to plan." P. McWilliams

"An open mind collects more riches than an open purse." W. Henry

"Work to become, not to acquire." A. Kulwicke

"The most important things in life are not things" (darn i forgot to write down the author's name)

"He who neglects to drink from the Spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance." Ling Po

"Success doesn't come to you...you come to it." M. Collins

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." E. Hubbard

"One who never asks knows either everything or nothing." MS. Forres

"A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." TS Carruthers (hahaha, he put this up when the principal came to evaluate him)

"Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going." J. Ryun

"It is never wrong to ask a question, it is always wrong to be ignorant." Fortune Cookie

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." Socrates

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." B. Franklin

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempt to display qualities which he does not possess." S. Johnson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." M. Twain

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." R.W. Emerson (i think)

"What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular." Anonymous

"All things are difficult before they are easy." Anonymous