Quotes by Educators - Page 5

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.
Robert M. Hutchins
Every human heart is human.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.
Mme. de Maintenon
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles W. Eliot
Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.
Harold Taylor
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus
What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.
Ethel Percy Andrus
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.
Sarah Winnemucca
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
Maria Montessori
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God in his infinite mercy has seen fit to place us to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life whatever it may be.
Ann Plato
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.
Anna Julia Cooper
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
George E. Woodberry
Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.
Ann Plato
When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.
Harold Loukes
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield
No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
Charles Swindoll
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
E. Merrill Root
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
Jean Illsley Clarke
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
Robert J. Havighurst
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.
Mary McLeod Bethune
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
Charles Rollin
The heights by 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
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
Edith Hamilton
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
Laurence J. Peter
He is more within us than we are ourselves.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
Max Lerner
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision the determination and the courage to reach it.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Jordan
Be a life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Act-act in the living present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.
Thomas Henry Huxley
To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier