Quotes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.~ John Foster Dulles

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.~ Erasmus

Be aware of your environment, live in the moment, and appreciate.~ Elaine Davies

Think about the impact of today's decisions, for tomorrow is much longer than today. ~ Don Raiff, economist

It is better to light one small candle than to live in darkness ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith is taking the first step, even if you don’t see the staircase. ~ Martin Luther King

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~ James Allen

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity ~ Darrell Royal

The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain. ~ Ankit Jamwal

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure. ~ S. I. Hayakawa

Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. ~ Archibald McLeish

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~ Cicero

On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essential est invisible pour les yeux. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. That which is essential is invisible for the eyes. ~ (The Little Prince)

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley

Nothing happens until something moves. ~ Robert Ringer

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ~ Bishop W. C.Magee

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~ Albert Einstein

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ~ Winston Churchill

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ~ William Arthur Ward

Lower your standards until you can start writing. ~ Donald Murray

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

No two persons ever read the same book.~ Edmund Wilson

What you know is just a point of departure. ~ Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet

We should acknowledge differences, we should greet differences, until difference makes no difference anymore. ~ Dr. Adela A. Allen

Life is divided into three terms—that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. ~ William Wordsworth

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~ Albert Einstein

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~ Louis A. Berman

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you stand still. ~ Unknown

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. ~ Plutarch

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. ~ John Dewey

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times. ~ Frank Smith

Teaching is the highest form of understanding. ~ Aristotle

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to experience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved. ~ Stephen Brookfield

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. ~ Gail Godwin

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. ~ Ellen Key, 1911

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. ~ Chinese proverb

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. ~ Confucius

Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning. ~ D.B. Gowin

The secret of education is respecting the pupil. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted. ~ Linda Conway

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. ~ Alexander Pope

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. ~ Albert Einstein

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value. ~ Bertrand Russell

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions. ~ Steven Brookfield

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~ Donald D. Quinn

Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense. ~ Anonymous

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. ~ Claude Bernard

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development. ~ Steven Brookfield

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. ~ Thomas Szasz, 1973

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one ~ Malcom S. Forbes

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. ~ Tryon Edwards

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ~ Robert Frost

The highest result of education is tolerance. ~ Helen Keller

The farther backward tou look, the farther forward you can see. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. ~ John Dewey

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. ~ Friedrich Schlegel

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. ~ Joseph Addison

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? ~ Vachel Lindsay

Life is what happens when you are making other plans. ~ John Lennon

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~ Will Durant

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. ~ Erma Bombeck

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate. ~ George Burns

You can increase your brainpower three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem. ~ Doug Hall

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun. ~ Matthew S. Richter

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~ Sir Francis Bacon

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. ~ Abraham Lincoln

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is a rubber sword—it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~ Mary Hirsch

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~ Ellie Katz

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~ Yiddish Proverb

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. ~ John Dewey

Observe perpetually. ~ Henry James

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. John Dewey

If it isn't used, it isn't learned. Aleksandr Luria

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning by and in our doing. ~ Robert Kegan

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. ~ Latin proverb

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~ Carl G. Jung

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. ~ Danny Kaye

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend; inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. ~ Graucho Marx

It’s never too late to be who you might have been. ~ George Eliot

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great make you feel that you, too, can become really great. ~ Mark Twain

Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looks. J.C. Watts Jr.

I would not waster my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ~ Chinese proverb

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. ~ Florence Shinn

I’ve always tried to go a step past where people expected me to end up. ~ Beverly Sills

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Flexible people never get bent out of shape. ~ Anonymous

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. ~ Mike Ditka

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. ~ William Shakespeare

Be careful of the words you speak, Make them soft and sweet. You never know from day to day, Which ones you’ll have to eat. Worry is a misuse of the imagination. ~ Dan Zadra

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. Elmer G. Letterman

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to anyone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ~ Whitney Young

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter. ~ Sharon Selzberg

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. ~ David Jordan

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There’s nothing like a newborn baby to buttress you soul, and to renew your spirit to make the world a better place. ~ Anonymous

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The ancestor to every action is a thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Benjamin Franklin

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. ~ William Shakespeare

If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dream, and endeavour to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have

You do not have any problems, you only think you do.~ Anonymous

Nothing happens until something moves. Albert Einstein

The average humans heart beats 100,000 per day. Make those beat count.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Dorothy Nevill

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open to it. ~ Henry Moore

Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily, Life is but a dream.

Education is what happens to the other person, not what comes out of the mouth of the educator. ~ Miles Horton

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: the first is pushing down, the second is pushing up. ~ Booker T. Washington

A true friend knows your weakness but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your strengths. ~ William Arthur Ward

The telling question of a person’s life is their relationship to the infinite. ~ Carl Jung

Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. ~ Thomas Dewar

Only the mediocre are always at their best. ~ Jean Giraudeaux

Self actualizing people are people who must be what they can be. ~ Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ~ Abraham Maslow

The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, but they are too low and we do. ~ Michelangelo

The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively. ~ Marilyn J. Adams

We do not learn from our experiences; we learn by reflecting on our experiences. ~ John Dewey

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~ James Allen

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. ~ Margaret Thatcher

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. ~ Neil Postman

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life. ~ Chris Evert

Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on your past experience and being able to take that observations and associate it with meaning. ~ Ruth and Art Winter

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow