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Educational Quotes

"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~Johann von Goethe

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~T.H. Huxley

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." ~David Burns

"Fall seven times; stand up eight." ~Asian proverb

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential." ~Winston Churchill

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." ~Mark Twain

"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever." ~Chinese Proverb

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." ~Pearl Buck

"Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done." ~Lewis Thomas

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." ~John Dewey

"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition." ~Terry Josephson

"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work." ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." ~Charles Dickens

"Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness." ~Jean De La Bruyere

"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself." ~Elie Wiesel

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." ~Bernard M. Baruch

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." ~Goethe

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet" ~Mohandas K. Gandhi