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ADVERSITY
AMBITION One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide, French author ANGER
ATTITUDE
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BROTHERHOOD BURDENS
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CHARACTER
CHOICES Make it a great day or not - the choice is yours! - Anonymous
COURAGE
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with
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DIRECTION
DREAMS Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy head. - Langston Hughes |
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EDUCATION
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FAILURE
FRIENDSHIP Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. - Proverbs 27:6
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther
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LEADERSHIP
LEGACY When I was young, I said to God, God, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size. - George Washington Carver If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr. You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done. -W.E.B. DuBois
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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." - Helen Keller We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - John W. Gardner
OVERCOMING Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. - Jackie Robinson |
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POWER PROBLEMS If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick
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SACRIFICE Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest strength is often also our greatest weakness. - Anonymous
SUCCESS None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. - Thurgood Marshall If at first you don't succeed ... welcome to the club. - Israel Harold Asper I don't know what's the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
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TEACHING Give a man to fish and you feed him
for a day. Education...beyond all other
devices of human origin, is a great equalizer Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb The mediocre teacher tells.
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. - Alice Wellington Rollins The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Kahlil Gibran The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. - K. Patricia Cross A teacher who is attempting to
teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on
cold iron. - Horace Mann Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. - Bob Talbert Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. - John F. Kennedy Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana Teaching is the profession
that teaches all the other professions. - Author Unknown If you promise not to believe
everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe
everything he says happens at home. - Anonymous Teacher If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. - Barbara Colorose We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. - John Sculley If a doctor, lawyer, or
dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different
needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble,
and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them
all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some
conception of the classroom teacher's job. - Donald D. Quinn In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. - Elbert Hubbard What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl Menninger Teaching is leaving a vestige
of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank
where you can deposit your most precious treasures. - Eugene P. Bertin |
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WORDS Even a fool is thought to be wise if he keeps silent. He is considered intelligent if he keeps his lips sealed. - Proverbs 17:28 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. - Proverbs 27:6 A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. - Proverbs 25:11 |
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