Quotes for Educators

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A month of inspirational quotes for educators, gathered by Barb S. and posted as “Apple Seeds” every morning on the main chatboard at Teachers.Net

In the dark times when stuff isn’t going right, if you have something to hold on to, like yourself, you’ll survive it.   ~ Whoopi Goldberg

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, so powerful, as hope. Without hope, people are only half alive. With hope, they dream and think and work.   ~ Charles Sawyer

You are not helpless and you’re not heartless, and you have time.   ~ Toni Morrison

Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in self-geography.   ~ Henry David Thoreau

Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked of them.   ~ W. H. Auden

If you value the world for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value by what it can get out of you.   ~ Arthur Twining Hadley

Watch what they do, not what they say.   ~ Randy Pausch

We find what we search for — or, if we don’t find it, we become it.   ~ Jessamyn West

As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.   ~ Walt Whitman

All of us should feel very proud of ourselves — and just a little bit silly.   ~ Kermit the Frog

If you knew you could not fail, what would you attempt?   ~ Kobi Yamada

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and, sheltered so, may thrive and grow.   ~ Louise Driscoll

If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.   ~ Arthur Twining Hadley

The reason clichés are repeated so often is because they’re so often right on the money. ~ Randy Pausch

In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story.   ~ Walter Cronkite

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.   ~ Dennis A. Peer

Forever be a dreamer. When your memories outnumber your dreams, the end is near.   ~ Kobi Yamada

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.   ~ Diane Ackerman

Longing performs all things.   ~ Mary Renault

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually nothing is impossible — that nothing  is too good to be true.   ~ Kobi Yamada

“Dance with the one who brung you” is a reminder about loyalty and appreciation.   ~ Randy Pausch

Never agree to surrender your aspirations. Your dreams must be free to fly and fly high. ~ Jesse Jackson

Cherish your visions, your ideals, the music that stirs in your heart. If you remain true to  them, your world will at last be built.   ~ James Allen

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.   ~ Jiminy Cricket

The thing always happens that you believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Your aspirations are your possibilities. ~ Samuel Johnson

If you have a dream, you have everything. If you have everything and no dream, then everything means nothing.   ~ Keynote

Don’t focus in little issues while ignoring the major ones.   ~ Randy Pausch

Careful what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.   ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.   ~ Diane Arbus

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.   ~ Erma Bombeck