Quotes by Educators - Page 4

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
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
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
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.
William A. Ward
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
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood any given mood then that mental mood itself will follow.
Kenneth Goode
Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodberry
To be seeing the world made new every morning as if it were the morning of the first day and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.
John H. Finley
Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!
Frank Dempster Sherman
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.
Thomas Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
Thomas Huxley
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham Flexner
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Finley
The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Laurence J. Peter
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today my husband Larry and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.
Eda LeShan
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles Eliot
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Booker T. Washington
Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you're on the merry-go-round you have to go round.
Kent Thompson
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley
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
It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.
Odell Shepard
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some people can carry a tune but they seem to stagger under the load.
Richard Armour
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment of trusting your instincts of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
Richard Iannelli
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
George E. Woodberry
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Arthur E. Morgan