Quotes by Educators - Page 3

A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
John Holt
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Horace Mann
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
Time ... is the life of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot
Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep.
Emma Willard
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Harry A. Overstreet
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
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
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
John Holt