Speaker 1

I am the captain now. --Captain Phillips

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. --George Washington

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. --Arthur Ashe

Speaker 2

“We make it look easy on the court… because we practice until we cannot get it wrong anymore." --— Basketball player Gabby Williams

“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.” --— Henry Hazlitt

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 3

Get busy living or get busy dying. --Stephen King

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. --Ken Kesey

"There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.” --— R. Lee Ermey

Speaker 4

You want something done, you've got to do it yourself --The Little Mermaid

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” --— Bill Watterson

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 5

I’ve seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us. --Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” --— John Adams

“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?” --— Robert Frost

Speaker 6

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. --George Washington

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. --Arthur Ashe

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. --Kenneth Blanchard

Speaker 7

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. --Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. --Babe Ruth

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.” --— George Bernard Shaw

Speaker 1

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. --Mark Twain

Whatever choice you make, let it come from your heart --The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. --Edgar J. Mohn

Speaker 2

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. --Maya Angelou

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. --Zora Neale Hurston

"When you're a little kid, you're a little bit of everything: Artist, Scientist, Athlete, Scholar. Sometimes it seems like growing up is a process of giving those things up, one by one.” --— Todd W. Langen writer of The Wonder Years

Speaker 3

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. --Barbara Jordan

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne Frank

Life is a journey, not a destination. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaker 4

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.” --— Murphy’s Law

If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all --Bambi

Speaker 5

There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. --Arthur Rubinstein

We do not remember days, we remember moments. --Cesare Pavese

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. --Ruth Gordon

Speaker 6

You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting. --Shmi Skywalker, The Phantom Menace

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all --Mulan

“There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.” --— Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 7

We have freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say. --Randy Orton

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie

Life is a harsh sentence to lay down for yourself --Saving Mr. Banks

Speaker 1

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. --Lucretia Mott

"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone. Person to person.” --— Mother Teresa

"One function of art is 'to make the familiar strange.'” --— Daniel Chandler

Speaker 2

"No artist is ever completely free, and art does not necessarily thrive as it becomes less constrained.” --— Andrew Sarris

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. --Aristophanes

Education is the mother of leadership. --Wendell Willkie

Speaker 3

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. --Warren Buffett

Dream in a pragmatic way. --Aldous Huxley

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams

Speaker 4

You manage things; you lead people. --Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” --— Roberto Clemente

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. --Aldous Huxley

Speaker 5

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. --Sam Levenson

Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got a bad feeling about this. --Lando Calrissian, The Rise of Skywalker

Speaker 6

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take --Alice in Wonderland

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. --Christian Nestell Bovee

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. --James Madison

Speaker 7

Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Friends don't lie. --Stranger Things

"When there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, [...] it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.” --— T.S. Eliot

Speaker 1

If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, they'll always create an emergency to break the law. --Alexandra Lains

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles. --Charles Chaplin

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. --Aldous Huxley

Speaker 2

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. --George Washington

Do you believe in miracles? YES! --Miracle

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” --— Albert Einstein

Speaker 3

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. --Thomas A. Edison

You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul --Ratatouille

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. --Victor Hugo

Speaker 4

"Whenever things go wrong, people turn to an -ism. Fascism, Communism... Why don't they think of Americanism?” --— Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It With You

Banish the word struggle from our attitude and vocabulary. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaker 5

When you go to war, both sides lose totally. --Yoko Ono

Reform is just another name for responsibility. --Abhijit Naskar

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. --Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

Speaker 6

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” --— Isaac Newton

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. --Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. --Aeschylus

Speaker 7

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying. --Fred Rogers

I’d just as soon kiss a wookiee. --Princess Leia, The Empire Strikes Back

No justice movement in history would have been successful if it had tailored its language to the oppressors. --Alex J. O’Connor