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

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.