Educational and other favorite quotes...

 

 

What we learn to do, we learn by doing. -Thomas Jefferson

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who never asks is a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is the the soul. - Joseph Addison

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. - Maria Montessori

 

 

Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.

- Dr. Ralph Tyler

A little thoughtfullness can bring a happy touch to everything.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

Acquire peace of mind by becoming the very best you can. - John Wooden

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" - Dr. Robert D. Ballard

A good teacher explains
, a superior teacher demonstrates, a GREAT teacher inspires!

 

 

Dare to be great! - Coach David Koehlor

If you believe you can, you can!

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

All people smile in the same language.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

Happiness held is the seed, happiness shared is the flower.

Be not simply good, be good for something.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Speak kind words and you will hear kind echos.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

 

 

If there were no problems, there would be no opportunities.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose.

Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.

Only hungry minds can become educated.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

 

 

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered yet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy

Wrinkles will only go where smiles have been. - Jimmy Buffett

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

A person should have enough education so he doesn't have to look up to anyone. He should also have enough to be wise enough not to look down.

 

 

Among the few things more expensive than an education these days is the lack of it.

A hundred years form now it will not matter how big my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

Wrong is wrong, even if everybody's doing it. Right is right, even if nobody's doing it.