The thing that makes advocacy such a powerful movement is the inner commitment, the passion of the people for good.

--Burton Blatt

in April 2008 Possibilities

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

--Winston Churchill

in December 2007 Possibilities

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

in September 2007 Possibilities

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

in April 2007 Possibilities

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

--Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

in December 2006 Possibilities

A community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all.

--Dan Wilkins, poet and motivational speaker

in September 2006 Possibilities

What is difficult is standing up and taking action!

--Balzac

in June 2006 Possibilities

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

--Anonymous

in April 2006 Possibilities

The real art of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but seeing with new eyes.

--Marcel Proust, French Philosopher/Novelist

in January 2006 Possibilities

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

--Helen Keller (1880-1968)

in September 2005 Possibilities

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

--David Viscott

in June 2005 Possibilities

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

--Helen Keller

in April 2005 Possibilities

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

--Audre Lorde, poet and activist

in November 2004 Possibilities

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

in September 2004 Possibilities

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

--Henry Van Dyke

in June 2004 Possibilities

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit.

--Aristotle

in April 2004 Possibilities

And now let us welcome the new year,
Full of things that have never been.

--Rilke

in February 2004 Possibilities

The beginning is the most important part of work.

--Plato

in November 2003 Possibilities

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

--Unknown

in July 2003 Possibilities

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

--Marcel Proust, French author

in February 2003 Possibilities

I do not believe the future will belong to those who are content with the present.... The future will belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

--US Senator Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002

in December 2002 Possibilities

You cannot be responsible for your own family without being responsible for the society and the environment in which they live.

--Justin Dart, disability rights leader, 1930-2002

in October 2002 Possibilities

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storms.

--Willa Cather, midwestern novelist, 1873-1947

in July 2002 Possibilities

Fall seven times; stand up eight.

--Japanese proverb

in May 2002 Possibilities

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day.

---Bob Feller

in March 2002 Possibilities

The end of all education should surely be service to others. We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sake and for our own.

---Cesar Chavez

in December 2001 Possibilities

A young woman once asked a very old woman, "What is life's heaviest burden?"

The old woman replied, "To have nothing to carry."

-- old Jewish tale

in October 2001 Possibilities

The state of knowledge exists. The will, the capacity, and the methods are usually the problem.

-- Rod Turnbull, professor of special education at Kansas University, on the challenge of inclusive education

in June 2001 Possibilities

A track is not the shape of a foot.
It's the shape of a foot on the ground.

-- Margaret Mead, on the meaning of community

in March 2001 Possibilities

Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no worth at all, if not perhaps, results opposite of what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you will start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, of the truth of the work itself.

-- Thomas Merton

in January 2001 Possibilities

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make.

--- Marian Wright Edelman

in June 2000 Possibilities

I have missed more than 9000 shots. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot--and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan

in April 2000 Possibilities

The fundamental law of human beings is inter-dependence. A person is a person through other persons.

-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

in November 1999 Possibilities

If you ever think we are too small to make a difference, try spending the night cooped up with a mosquito.

-- Swahili proverb

in May 1999 Possibilities

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

-- Frederick Douglass

in Winter 1998-99 Possibilities

We make the road by walking.

-- Antonio Machado

in October 1998 Possibilities

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain--until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

-- Jane Addams

in April 1998 Possibilities

Treat people as though they are what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

-- Goethe

in February 1998 Possibilities

Studies show the #1 reason training doesn't transfer to the workplace is not the trainer, the training, or the trainee -- it's the non-supportive, non-reinforcing work environment back at the organization.

-- from Region VII CRP-RCEP News, Summer 1999

in December 1997 Possibilities