Quotes by Educators - Page 6

A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot Fringed pool Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Thomas Edward Brown
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.
George E. Woodberry
My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
Robert J. Havighurst
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared in whatever situation he is therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.
Timothy Dwight
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William A. Ward
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Nicholas Murray Butler
There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Harry A. Overstreet
The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
Increase Mather
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
Richard Armour
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic W. Farrar
Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.
William A. Ward
If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.
James Burgh
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
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
Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.
Thomas Arnold
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Whatever you attempt go at it with spirit. Put some in!
David Starr Jordan
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Horace Mann
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Huxley
The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.
A. Lawrence Lowell
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.
Derek Bok
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot
Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.
John Erskine
Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.
Robert C. Edwards
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John H. Finley
I'm from Missouri you must show me.
Colonel Willard D. Vandiver
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
James Bryant Conant
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.
Julia F. Carney
Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
Sir Richard Livingstone
There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton
Decisions determine destiny.
Frederick Speakman
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier