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EDUCATIONAL QUOTES

Acceptance	Confidence	Future	Knowledge	Praise	Silence
Action	Cooperation	Greatness	Laughter	Privileges	Success
Adversity	Courage	Habit	Leadership	Problem Solving	Teaching
Advice	Creativity	Happiness	Learning	Purpose	Thinking
Assessment	Cynicism	High Expectations	Learning Community	Questioning	Time
Attitude	Decision Making	Hiring	Life	Raising Children	Trust
Beliefs	Dreaming	Honesty	Listening	Research	Values
Bravery	Education	Hope	Measurement	Respect	Very Best
Challenge	Effort	Idealism	Opportunity	Responsibility	Virtue
Change	Enemies	Imagination	Optimism	Risk taking	Vision
Character	EQ	Initiative	Patience	Role Model	Wisdom
Choice	Experience	Inspiration	Perseverance	Self Esteem	Work Ethic
Commitment	Facts	Integrity	Personality	Self Reflection	7 Habits
Communication	Failure	Intelligence	Potential	Self Worth
Competence	Friendship	Kindness	Power	Service

Author	Topic	Quote
William James	Acceptance	"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortunes."
Johann Van Goethe	Action	"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do!!"
Benjamin Disraeli	Action	"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Horace	Adversity	"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
Walt Disney	Adversity	"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Mason Cooley	Advice	"Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear."
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield	Advice	"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
Turkish Proverb	Assessment	"Measure a thousand times and cut once."
Dolly Parton	Attitude	"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Herm Albright	Attitude	"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Norman Vincent Peale	Attitude	"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
Vince Lombardi	Attitude	“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.”
William James	Attitude	"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which more than anything else, will determine its outcome."
Kenneth Tynan	Attitude	"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."
Alex Hamilton	Beliefs	"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Bravery	"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Franklin P. Jones	Bravery	"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
Anonymous	Challenge	"Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks, It's just a matter of how you view them."
Michael F.  Stately	Challenge	"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."
Stephen Hall	Challenge	"Life at its best is a series of challenges. A big enough challenge will bring out strengths and abilities you never knew you had. Take on your challenges and you will bring yourself to life."
Henry Ford	Chance	"There is no such things as no chance."
Albert Einstein	Change	"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein	Change	"Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over, but expecting different results."
Anonymous	Change	"Nothing is ever achieved that stays in a dream. Take Action Now!"
Charles Baudelaire	Change	"There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself."
Confucius	Change	"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Eugene V. Debs	Change	"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization."
Frank Herbert	Change	"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Harold Wilson	Change	"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
Henry Ward Beecher	Change	"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands."
Herman Hupfeld	Change	"The fundamental things apply/As time goes by."
Isaac Newton	Change	"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
James Belasco and Ralph Stayer	Change	"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."
John F. Kennedy	Change	"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
Katharine Fullerton Gerould	Change	"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
Leo Tolstoy	Change	“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing him/herself.”
Lesley Poles Hartley	Change	"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Lowell	Change	"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin."
Mahatma Ghandi	Change	Be the change you want to see happen.
Marcel Proust	Change	"The real voyage in discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Margaret Mead	Change	"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Mark Twain	Change	"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."
Michael Fullan	Change	"It is so easy to underestimate the complexities of the change process…Change is difficult because it is riddled with dilemmas, ambivalences, and paradoxes. It combines steps that do not seem to go together: to have a clear vision and be open-minded; to take the imitative and empower others; to provide support and pressure; to start small and think big; to expect results and be patient and persistent; to have a plan and be flexible; to use top-down and bottom-up strategies; to experience uncertainty and satisfaction."
Niccolo Machiavelli	Change	"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
Peter Senge	Change	"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"
Pope John XXIII	Change	"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."
Samuel Johnson	Change	"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson	Change	"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Shakespeare	Change	"Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things."
Thich Nhat Hanh	Change	"...if we do not change our daily lives, we cannot change the world."
Thomas Henry Huxley	Change	"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Unknown	Change	“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Vincent Van Gogh	Change	"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
William Blake	Change	"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
William James	Change	“The greatest discovery of this generation:  Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”
Steven Stein	Change	For change to happen  Px(C+A)>R  Purpose x (Commitment + Accountability) > Resistance
Steven Stein	Change	For effective change DxDxM>S Discontent X Direction x Movement > Status Quo (Current state of affairs x vision x steps to get you there > Staying the same
Heraclitus	Change	"There is nothing permanent except change."
Fridtjof Nansen	Change, Fear	"Never stop because you are afraid -- you are never so likely to be wrong."
Abraham Lincoln	Character	"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
James A. Michener	Character	"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
John Locke	Character	"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
Martin Luther King JR	Character	"The true measure of a person is not how they behave in moments of comfort and convenience, but how they stand at times of controversy and challenge."
Samuel Johnson	Character	"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
Viscount Morley John	Character	"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant	Character	"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself."
Abraham Lincoln	Choice	"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
John Wooden	Choice	"Don't let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can."
Pat Riley	Choice	"Look for your choices, Pick the best one, and then go with it."
Ralph Waldo Trine	Choice	"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... Is to set our own condition to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
Shakespeare	Choice	"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Confucius	Choice	"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Josh Billings	Choice	"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Choice	"Always do what you are afraid to do."
Seneca	Choice	"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Napoleon Hill	Choice	"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit."
Dale Carnegie	Choice	"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
William Jennings Bryant	Choice	"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved."
Dr. Joseph M. Juran	Commitment	"Commitment is the daily triumph of integrity over scepticism."
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Commitment	“You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.”
Alexandre Dumas	Communication	"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
Andre Maurois	Communication	"The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Communication	"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Edward de Bono	Communication	"Useful communication must always be in the language of the receiver."
James Thurber	Communication	"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense."
Rudyard Kipling	Communication	"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Walter Lippmann	Communication	"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
John Powell S.J.	Communication	"You can't walk a mile in someone else's shoes until you take off your own shoes . Communication works for those who work at it. A good listener truly wants to know the speaker."
Turkish Proverb	Communication	"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
Laurence J. Peter	Competence	"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
Vince Lombardi	Confidence	"Confidence is contagious...So is lack of confidence."
William Adams	Confidence	"You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
Brooker T. Washington	Cooperation	"A sure way to lift oneself up is by helping to lift someone else."
J. Martin Kohe	Cooperation	"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."
Andrew Jackson	Courage	"One man with courage makes a majority."
Eleanor Roosevelt	Courage	"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
Maxwell Maltz	Courage	“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk—and to act.”
Walt Disney	Courage	"All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them."
Winston Churchill	Courage	Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Earl Nightingale	Courage	"Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped."
Carl. R. Rogers	Creativity	"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
Norman H. Mackworth	Creativity	"The real mark of the creative person is that the unforeseen problem is a joy and not a curse."
Alfred Adler	Credibility	"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
H.L. Mencken	Cynicism	"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Theodore Roosevelt	Decision Making	"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Benjamin Franklin	Decision Making	"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Cinderella	Dreaming	"Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing The dream that you wish will come true."
Amos Bronson Alcott	Education	"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
Marian Wright Edelman	Education	"It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone."
Pablo Veruda	Education	"All paths lead to the same goal, to convey to others what we are."
Peter Ustinov	Education	"Parents [teachers] are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth."
Publilius Syrus	Education	"It is only the ignorant who despise education."
Mahatma Gandhi	Effort	"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
Graham Greene,	Enemies	"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."
Antoine de Saint-Expuery	EQ	"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Confucius	EQ	"Wherever you go, Go with all of your heart."
Dale Carnegie	EQ	"You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself."
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	EQ	"To measure the man, measure his heart."
Martin Luther King, Jr.	EQ	"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove,  a tough mind and a tender heart."
Mother Teresa	EQ	"The most important medicine is tender love and care."
Pope John Paul II	EQ	"We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us."
Zelda Fitzgerald	EQ	"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."
George Carlin	Experience	"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
Josh Billings	Experience	"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
Aldous Huxley	Experience	"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
Sigmund Freud	Experience	"Experience includes experiencing what we do not want to experience."
Aaron Levenstein	Facts	"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
Mort Crim	Facts	"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . .We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts."
Howard Gardner	Failure of Education	"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways.
H.L. Mencken	Failure, Success	"Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time."
Michael Jordan	Failure, Success	Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be…It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart.  I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something.  But I can't accept not trying.
Truman Capote	Failure, Success	"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Eric Hoffer	Failure	"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."
Charles Caleb Colton	Friendship	"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Samuel Butler	Friendship	"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
William Ewart Gladstone	Future	"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on your side."
Mencius	Greatness	"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
Aristotle	Habit	"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Thomas A Kempis	Habit	"Habit is overcome by habit."
Helen Keller	Happiness	"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
William Saroyan	Happiness	"Happiness is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
Anonymous	Happiness	"For every sixty seconds of anger, You lose one minute of happiness."
Anonymous	High Expectations	"The difference between ordinary & extraordinary is that little Extra!"
Anonymous	High Expectations	"Learn how to achieve the impossible."
W. Somerset Maughbam	High Expectations	"It's funny thing about life; If you refuse to accept anything but the best (including from your self) You will often get it."
Advises Hock	Hiring	Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous, without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with the other qualities.
Francis Bacon	Honesty	"Be true to thyself as thou be not false to others."
William Shakespeare	Honesty	"This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Honesty	'Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."
Benedict Spinoza	Hope	"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."
Anonymous	Hope	"Hope works in these ways: It looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; It discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; It regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; It pushes ahead when it would be easiest to quit; It lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness."
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D	Hope	"Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it."
George Weinberg	Hope	"Hope never abandons you, you abandon hope."
H.L. Mencken	Idealism	"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup."
Albert Einstein	Imagination	"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
George Bernard Shaw	Initiative	"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Edward Gibbon	Inspiration	"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Stephen Leacock	Inspiration	"It may be those who do most, dream most."
Quintilian	Integrity	"A liar needs a good memory."
Robert Cooper	Integrity	Integrity in business means accepting full responsibility, communicating clearly and openly, keeping promises, avoiding hidden agendas, and having the courage to lead yourself and your team or enterprise with honor, which includes knowing and being consistently honest with yourself, not only in mind but heart.
Carl Sagan	Intelligence	"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure."
Don Herold	Intelligence	"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
Dalai Lama	Kindness	"My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness."
Mark Twain	Kindness	"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
George Bernard Shaw	Knowledge	"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
Henry Ford Sr.	Knowledge	"None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."
James Northcote	Knowledge	"Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountain-heads."
John Ruskin	Knowledge	"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Leonardo da Vinci	Knowledge	"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
Robert S. Lynd	Knowledge	"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Lord Chesterfield	Knowledge	"Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired out in the world, and cannot be attained in a closet."
Arnold Glasow	Laughter	"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
Victor Borge	Laughter	"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Anatole France	Leadership	"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
Ancient Chinese Proverb	Leadership	“The wicked leader is he who the people despise.  The great leader is he whose people say ‘We did it ourselves.’”
Benjamin Franklin	Leadership	"Necessity never made a good bargain."
Bill Lowe	Leadership	The real emphasis of jazz is that you don't really need a leader. And you do. The best leader disappears when the music is happening because he or she has demonstrated to the group that the leadership can take place anywhere. For example, the fourth trombone might have to be the leader in a particular part of the tune. Later on it'll be the lead trumpet…It goes from person to person. The good conductor understands that's happening and encourages that to happen . . .
Bronson Alcott	Leadership	"The true leader inspires in others self trust, guiding their eyes to the spirit, the goal."
David Seabury	Leadership	"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
Elizabeth Charles	Leadership	"To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers—or both."
Franklin P. Adams	Leadership	"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
Fullan and Hargreaves	Leadership	"Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for."
Harry S Truman	Leadership	“I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.”
Henri Bergson	Leadership	"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
Henry Ford	Leadership	"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
J. K. Galbraith	Leadership	"The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved."
James Russell Lowell	Leadership	"A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."
James Russell Lowell	Leadership	"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient."
Johann W. von Goethe	Leadership	"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel."
Lao Tzu	Leadership	If you keep to one corner and neglect the myriad of the totality, if you take one thing and discard the rest, then what you attain will be little and what you master will be shallow.
Lise Hand	Leadership	"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."
Lord Chandos	Leadership	"Flattery is the infantry of negotiation."
Louis Nizer	Leadership	"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
Mary Kay Ash	Leadership	“Help other people get what they want, and you’ll get what you want.”
Michel Eyquem	Leadership	"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
Mother Maribel	Leadership	"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
Peter Marshall	Leadership	“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
Ralph Nader	Leadership	“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Richard Fuller	Leadership	"Don't fight forces; use them."
Robert Kennedy	Leadership	"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
Sir Winston Churchill	Leadership	"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Stephen Covey	Leadership	“Management…. is clearly different from leadership.  Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brained activity.  It’s more of an art; it’s based on a philosophy.  You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.  But once you have dealt with those issues, once you have resolved them, you then have to manage yourself effectively to create a life congruent with your answers.”
Stephen R. Covey	Leadership	“People who are truly effective have the humility and reverence to recognize their own personal limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.”
Thomas Jefferson	Leadership	"When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."
Unknown	Leadership	“Leaders know what they don’t know.”
Unknown	Leadership	“Leading is simply getting to the future before someone else.  It is also connected to when you get there and who followed you.”
William James	Leadership	"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William Penn	Leadership	"Sense shines with a double lustre when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
Unknown	Leadership	"Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."
Mark Twain	Leadership	"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."
Edward S. Finkelstein	Leadership	"Bigness comes from doing many small things well.. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up!"
Homer	Leadership	"Leadership is to be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds."
Lord Acton	Leadership	"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Ashleigh Brilliant	Leadership	"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."
Old Chinese Proverb	Leadership	"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."
Anonymous	Learning	"With willing hearts and skilful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer."
Bernard M. Baruch	Learning	"Millions say the apple fell, but Newton was the first to ask why."
Don Herold	Learning	"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Dr. W. Edwards Deming	Learning	"You don't just learn knowledge; you have to create it. Get in the driver's seat, don't just be a passenger. You have to contribute to it or you don't understand it."
Dr. W. Edwards Deming	Learning	"Experience by itself teaches nothing. You must have a theory and you must take action."
Gayle L. Freidson	Learning	"Learn not only from your mistakes, but learn from your success."
Grace Yohannan	Learning	"We change what students do by changing what students know."
Henry David Thoreau	Learning	"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated."
John F. Kennedy	Learning	"A child miseducated is a child lost."
John Wooden	Learning	"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
Joseph Joubert	Learning	"Children need models rather than critics."
Milton Erikson	Learning	"Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never become wider, bigger or deeper."
Socrates	Learning	"One man's knowledge does not lend wings to another's learning."
Theodore Sizer	Learning	"Students at work create various kinds of noise. They talk and measure and puzzle out and make the audible messes that an assistant principal is supposed to abhor. Their activity also exposes the inconvenient truth that some kids do the work faster than others. The neat march over material that is possible when only the teacher sets the pace of the journey is no longer possible."
Unknown	Learning	"The child will never forget what he discovers for himself. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Learning	"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
Clifton Fadiman	Learning	"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Anonymous	Learning	"Life is learning - from our mistakes as well as our successes. The only real mistake in life one said, Is the mistake not learned from."
C.R. Lawton	Learning	"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, You will never grow."
Samuel Johnson	Learning	"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."
Henrik Ibsen	Learning Community	"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
Saint Francis of Assisi	Learning Community	"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation."
Thomas Jefferson	Learning Community	"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Alexis de Tocqueville	Life	"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
Anonymous	Life	"If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you have always gotten."
Confucius	Life	"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue .... [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."
Erma Bombeck	Life	"If you can laugh at it, you can live with it."
Frank Lloyd Wright	Life	"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
Friedrich Nietzsche	Life	"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; One cannot fly into flying."
Heroclitus	Life	"You can never step into the river of time twice."
J. R. R. Tolkien	Life	"Not all who wander are lost."
Jerry Gillies	Life	"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
John Lennon	Life	"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
John, Viscount Morley	Life	"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
Jon Kabat-Zinn	Life	"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."
Jules Renard	Life	"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more."
Miguel de Cervantes	Life	"When one door is shut, another one opens."
Orson Welles	Life	"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Life	"Life is a succession of lessons which we must lived to be understood."
Russell Lynes	Life	"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."
Seneca	Life	"It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
Sören Kierkegaard	Life	"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Srully D. Blotnick	Life	"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."
Tommy John	Life	"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Unknown	Life	My mother once remarked to me, "I'm getting older, and I can't walk so fast anymore. But you can walk more slowly."
Thomas Carlyle	Life	"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Unknown	Life	"A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight."
Voltair	Life	"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?"
Wallace Stevens	Life	"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
Walt Whitman	Life	"Not I - not anyone else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."
William Shedd	Life	"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
Mahatma Gandhi	Life	"There is a soul force in the universe which if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."
Martial	Life	"Tomorrow's life is too late... Live Today."
Saint Francis	Life	"Life is lived in the present. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet be. Today Is The Miracle Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Life	"Life Is A Challenge - Meet It! Life Is A Song - Sing It! Life Is A Dream - Realize It! Life Is A Game - Play It! Life Is Love - Enjoy It!"
Oprah Winfrey	Life	"If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough."
Will Rogers	Life	"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
Anonymous	Life	"The past is history, The future is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's why we call it the Present."
Grandmaster Wonik Yi	Life	"Life is like water. Cow drinks water and makes milk. Snake drinks water and makes poison."
Edward Hersey Richards	Listening	"A wise old owl sat upon an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?"
Ernest Hemingway	Listening	"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
Henry Ford	Listening	"If there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own."
Native American Proverb	Listening	"Listen, or your tongues will keep you deaf."
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Listening	"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Robert Frost	Listening	"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Wilson Mizner	Listening	"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
Epictetus	Listening	"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Ernest Hemingway	Listening	"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
Dean Rusk	Listening	"The best way to persuade people is with your ears — by listening to them."
Diane Sawyer	Listening	"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
Witch in Into the Woods (1990)	Listening	"Careful the things you say, children will listen. Careful the things you do, children will see. And learn. Children may not obey, but children will listen. Children will look to you for which way to turn, to learn what to be. Careful before you say, "Listen to me." Children will listen."
Mowgli in The Jungle Book (1994)	Listening	"The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen."
Henry David Thoreau	Listening	"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
Anonymous	Listening	"Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening."
Wilson Mizner	Listening	"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."
Albert Einstein	Measurement	"Everything that can be counted isn't worth counting, and everything that is worth counting isn't always countable."
Peter F. Drucker	Measurement	"We need to measure, not count."
General Douglas MacArthur	Opportunity	"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
Rick Irving, Texas	Opportunity	"Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits."
Helen Keller	Opportunity	"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Nicholas Murray Butler	Optimism	"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
Les Brown	Optimism	"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
William Arthur Ward	Optimism	"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi