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Quotes for Educators – Apple Seeds of Inspiration
By Barb Stutesman
Following are the Apple Seed quotes posted by Barb on the Teacher Chatboard each morning during March.
03-01: I would rather fail in a cause that someday will triumph than win in a cause that I know will someday fail. ~ Woodrow Wilson
03-02: To-Do lists help us break life into small steps. ~ Randy Pausch
03-03: Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world. ~ Malcolm X
03-04: I always have choices, and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. ~ Judith M. Knowlton
03-05: Treat a person as s/he is, and s/he will remain as s/he is. Treat a person as s/he can and should be, and s/he will become as s/he can and should be. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03-06: A great teacher never strives to explain her/his vision. S/He simply invites you to stand beside her/him and see for yourself. ~ R. Inman
03-07: We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03-08: Life is what happens while you are making other plans. ~ John Lennon
03-09: Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? ~ Randy Pausch
03-10: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle
03-11: Social justice and freedom both now increasingly depend on how each society deals with three issues: education, information technology (including the media), and freedom of expression. ~ Alvin Toffler
03-12: There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. ~ John F. Kennedy
03-13: The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier. ~ Edward Markey
03-14: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
03-15: Beware the Ides of March. ~ William Shakespeare
03-16: Develop a good filing system. ~ Randy Pausch
03-17: Put silk on a goat, and it’s still a goat. ~ Irish proverb
03-18: Do, or do not. There is no “try”. ~ Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
03-19: Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results. ~ George S. Patton
03-20: No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~ Hal Borland
03-21: Perfection itself is imperfection. ~ Vladimir Horowitz
03-22: Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. ~ Walt Whitman
03-23: Rethink the telephone. ~ Randy Pausch
03-24: It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s how you carry it. ~ Lena Horne
03-25: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
03-26: A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. ~ Anonymous
03-27: Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a person a more clever devil. ~ C. S. Lewis
03-28: Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ~ Nathaniel Emmons
03-29: Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~ John Wooden
03-30: It’s better to stand when you’re on the phone. You’re more apt to speed things along. ~ Randy Pausch
03-31: The mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
