Ridley School District2010-2011

We must delight in each other, make other’s conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

John Winthrop

For those to whom much is given, much is required.

John Cotton’s 1630 farewell sermon to passengers on the Arbella

Behind every success is effort…Behind every effort is passion…Behind every passion is someone

with the courage to try.

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Keri Russell

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Plato

No one is meant to live a miserable and unfulfilled life. We should love what we’re doing. We should go to work with enthusiasm, passionate about what we’re doing, not just struggling through another mundane week in a job that we dread.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter F. Drucker

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

It took only one person to be persistent and invent light.  It takes only one to write a book that becomes a bestseller and influences millions.  It takes only one teacher to see something within a child that is good and wake that sleeping goodness up to change the child for the better.  Every President has had a teacher along the way that said, "You can do it."  May you be the "power of one" for children.

Maryln Appelbaum

She thought I had the talent to go on and do something in the theater. So she rode me every minute. Her influence changed my life.

Paul Felder Class of 2002

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Gillian Anderson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

John Lubbock

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Sally Koch

Sometimes when we are generous

in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.

Margaret Cho

Four of my five kids go to Ridley School District. I have the utmost respect for my children’s teachers. They are the most amazing people you’d ever want to know. The care about my kids, they care about my family and they work so hard every day.

3/29/10 Delco Daily Times Sound Off

What’s in front of you is far more important than what is behind you. Where you are going is more significant than where you came from or where you have been.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

It’s important to give all you have while you have the chance.

Shania Twain

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Marianne Williamson