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1. A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams 2. What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation. Marcus Tullius Cicero 3. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock 4. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle 5. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin Proverb 6. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards 7. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland 8. Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars. Latin Maxim 9. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Henri Frederic Amiel 10. We learn by teaching. James Howell 11. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein 12. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. Joyce Cary 13. Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require. Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar 14. Whatever you want to teach, be brief. Horace 15. He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. Samuel Johnson 16. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb 17. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus 18. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun 19. Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant 20. To teach is to learn twice over. Joseph Joubert 21. A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. Newton D. Baker 22. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. Philip Wylie 23. A child miseducated is a child lost. John F. Kennedy 24. A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. Patricia Neal 25. Live Each Day as Though it was your last. Anonymous 26. Never try to teach a pig to sing....it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Anonymous 27. Inspiration and genius--one and the same. Victor Hugo 28. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." Edward Bulwer Lytton 29. If you would create something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 30. Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson 31. No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson 32. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle 33. Let thy words be few. Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom 34. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon J. Suenes 35. The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir 36. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus 37. We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. Cicero 38. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides 39. They can because they think they can. Virgil 40. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson 41. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. Theodore T. Hunger 42. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier 43. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Loyd Wright 44. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard 45. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley 46. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley 47. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Vince Lombardi 48. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope 49. Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings 50. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Earl of Beaconsfield 51. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. Evan Esar 52. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Jospeph Addison 53. Impatience never commanded success. Edwin H. Chapin 54. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. Henry W. Longfellow 55. To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. Shakespeare 56. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein 57. And one quote just for fun..... 58. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields 59. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson 60. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton 61. I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats 62. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau 63. All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence 64. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau 65. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner 66. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Patrick Henry 67. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 68. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Lanston Hughes 69. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry D. Thoreau 70. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 71. The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. Hamilton Wright Mabie 72. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery 73. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. Ralph Waldo Emerson 74. Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. Anonymous 75. Hope is the dream of the waking man. French Proverb 76. To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. William Shakepeare 77. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Harold R. McAlindon 78. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower 79. There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. Alexandre Ledru-Rollin 80. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle 81. The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way. Henry Miller 82. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. Lao Tzu 83. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. Aristotle 84. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World) 85. Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus 86. A leader is a deal in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte 87. It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. Danish Proverb 88. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George Patton (from Big Dog's Quotes) 89. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 90. Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. Horace 91. In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. Henry W. Longfellow 92. I light my candle from their torches. Robert Burton 93. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Woodrow Wilson 94. The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. Publius Syrus 95. A bold onset is half the battle. Giuseppe Garibaldi 96. To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg. James Thomas 97. Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Edmund Spenser 98. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. Solon 99. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. Napoleon Bonaparte 100. It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. Seneca 101. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln 102. What you cannot enforce / Do not command. Sophocles 103. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche 104. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) Latin Proverb 105. Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. Thomas Carlyle 106. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. Polybius 107. You must look into other people as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield 108. A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil 109. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. Lord Chesterfield 110. To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. Thomas Edwards 111. We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. Denis Diderot 112. Arguing with a fool proves there are two. Doris M. Smith 113. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Richter 114. Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others. J. Petit Senn 115. Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. Publius Syrus 116. Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. Thomas Carlyle 117. The more you say, the less people remember. François Fénelon 118. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. William Thackeray 119. The soul of conversation is sympathy. Thomas Campbell 120. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. William Ellery Channing 121. If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus 122. The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. Lord Bacon 123. A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. John Tillotson 124. It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. J. Petit Senn 125. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher 126. The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. Lee Iacocca 127. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon 128. In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. Victor Cousins 129. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi 130. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley (as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog) 131. A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life. Samuel Butler 132. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog 133. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Michel de Montaigne 134. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning 135. The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. Kahil Gibran 136. Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. Aldous Huxley 137. If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra 138. We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 139. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor Frankl 140. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford 141. Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca 142. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Author Unknown 143. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. David Ogilvy 144. There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. Logan Pearsall Smith 145. Nature and wisdom never are at strife. Plutarch 146. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois De La Rochefoucauld 147. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. William James 148. listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Solomon Ibn Gabriol 149. Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. William Penn 150. The middle course it the best. Cleobulus 151. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas Huxley 152. A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. Latin Proverb 153. Silence does not always mark wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 154. No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca 155. Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton 156. The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt 157. Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. John Tillotson 158. The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great 159. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens 160. One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. Alexander Chase 161. How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer 162. On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows. Edward Young 163. The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. Confucius 164. I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats 165. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau 166. All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence 167. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau 168. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner 169. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Patrick Henry 170. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 171. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Lanston Hughes 172. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry D. Thoreau 173. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 174. The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. Hamilton Wright Mabie 175. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery 176. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. Ralph Waldo Emerson 177. Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. Anonymous 178. Hope is the dream of the waking man. French Proverb 179. To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. William Shakepeare 180. It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. Michel de Montaigne 181. We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Tse-Tung 182. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lipman 183. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare 184. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespearer 185. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. James Beattie 186. What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. Oliver Wendell Holmes 187. We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. William Shakespeare 188. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 189. The less men think, the more they talk. Baron Montesquieu 190. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius 191. But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Sir Aubrey De Vere 192. Thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson 193. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. Henry Ford 194. The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. Charles W. Eliot 195. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale 196. Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. Humphrey B. Neil 197. Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. R. C. Trench 198. It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. Michel de Montaigne 199. We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. Mao Tse-Tung 200. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lipman 201. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. William Shakespeare 202. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespearer 203. The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. James Beattie 204. What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. Oliver Wendell Holmes 205. We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. William Shakespeare 206. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 207. The less men think, the more they talk. Baron Montesquieu 208. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius 209. But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Sir Aubrey De Vere 210. Thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson 211. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it. Henry Ford 212. The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. Charles W. Eliot 213. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale 214. Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. Humphrey B. Neil 215. Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. R. C. Trench |
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