Quotes by Educators - Page 2

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.
William A. Ward
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Ralph C. Smedley
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.
Steve Wheeler
The soul ... is audible not visible.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William Arthur Ward
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
William Arthur Ward
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George Edward Woodberry
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
Ships that pass in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
Charles W. Eliot
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.
Ethel Percy Andrus
To find the good life you must become yourself.
Dr. Bill Jackson
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune
From self alone expect applause.
Marion L. Burton
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Day of the Lord as all our days should be!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
Do what you love the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
Marsha Sinetar
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
Angelo Patri
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
George E. Woodberry
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.
Joan Ganz Cooney
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.
Gyorgy Kepes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
Dean Register
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
A.J. Gordon