Inspiring Quotes

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"They can because they think they can." - Virgil

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." - Henry Ford

 

 

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Inspirational Videos & Thoughts


Inspirational Videos

The Story of J-Mac
Jason McElwain, a high school basketball student manager, who suffers from autism, enters a game for the first time ever on senior night and scores 20 points in four minutes.


Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,"; Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.


Obama on Race and Politics
Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future. As a white male, who grew up in the inner city of a major metropolitan city, I find Mr. Obama's words inspiring.