Inspirational Quotes
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Chinese proverb
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Louis Mercier
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore
I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
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
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese proverb
Events in our classrooms today will prompt world events tomorrow.
L. Lloyd Trump
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
William Jefferson Clinton
It takes all sorts to make a world.
English proverb
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
Mitch Albom
We make the road, others will make the journey.
Victor Hugo
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
Maya Angelou
In all things we learn only from those we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Anonymous
You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
Children may forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.
Parker J. Palmer
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget the he or she is someone today.
Stacia Tausher
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Yeats
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Christopher Society, motto
Expect a miracle!
Oral Roberts
The ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic by experts. Don't wait for experts.
Murray Cohen
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin