Quotes

Every day, Melissa used to write a quote on her board at school. Students would come in to check on the new quote, and would be saddened when she had not had time yet to put up a new one. This list is but a small collection of short quotations, gathered by Melissa's good friend Cameron Smith from Facebook posts Melissa made over the years.

1. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

2. Note to self: you got this.

3. It only seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela

4. Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

5. Always be a little kinder than necessary. - J.M Barrie

6. You were made to be awesome – Kid President

7. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman

8. Doing nothing is a great way to change nothing. – Kid President

9. As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with more love and kindness to whatever might come our way. - Thomas S. Monson

10. What you do when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde

11. Choose happy.

12. I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. – Henry David Thoreau

13. Nothing worth having comes easy. - Theodore Roosevelt

14. Dum Spiro Spero

15. You can’t be sad when you’re holding a cupcake.

16. Good people bring out the good in people – Roy T. Bennett

17. If you can’t be kind, be quiet.

18. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. – Tim Notke

19. Quit being ugly to others.

20. Throw kindness like confetti.

21. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren

22. The mountains are calling, I must go.

23. You will never regret being kind.

24. Great is thy faithfulness, morning by morning new mercies I see. - Thomas Obadiah Chisholm

25. Well, bless your heart.

26. Be a fountain, not a drain. – Rex Hudler

27. Keep your hands to yourself. Leave other people’s things alone, and be kind to done another. – Tim Cotton

28. Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet. – Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

29. Wouldn’t you feel better with a little lipstick on? - Grandma Eunice

30. Life is sweet.

31. ”Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt

32. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel Burnha

33. The talent of success is doing nothing more than doing what you can do, well. – Henry W. Longfellow

34. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore

35. The unthankful heart discovers no mercies: but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. – Henry Ward Beecher

36. So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” – Hebrews 13:6

37. You know it was a good day if you didn’t hit or bite anyone. – Nathaniel Parizek

38. Be inspiring.

39. Be humble.

40. Be the good.