Quotes by Educators - Page 7

Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson
This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Necessity does the work of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter F Drucker
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
Ordway Tead
If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Quintilian
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
Charles Swindoll
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but 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 for himself.
James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.
John Holt
There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
Odell Shepard
All things must change To something new to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If folks can learn to be racist then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic then dad gum people can learn about gender equality.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.
Betty Shabazz
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
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F Drucker
Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.
Erwin H. Schell
To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas M. Butler
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer J. Adler
In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Laurence J. Peter
The government is concerned about the population explosion and the population is concerned about the government explosion.
Ruth Rankin
Every story has three sides to it - yours mine and the facts.
Foster Meharny Russell
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Walter Gropius
Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Walter Gropius
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Nicholas Murray Butler
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is 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
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Edward Howard Griggs
How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Whitney Griswold
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
William A. Ward
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark