If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
~ Welsh proverb

Being ignorant is not as shameful as being unwilling to learn.
~ Unknown

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~ William Shakespeare

Character my be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
~ Phillips Brooks

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~ B. F. Skinner

Climb as though you were to live forever. Live as though you were to die tomorrow.
~ Unknown

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
~ Helen Keller

What we choose to learn will remain the most significant part of the learning process.
~ Unknown

While one person hesitates because s/he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
~ Henry Link

Unless we can keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.
~ Unknown

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
~ Francis de Sales

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
~ Unknown

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~ Mother Teresa

One of the greatest – and simplest – tools for learning more is doing more.
~ Unknown

Philosophy teaches a person that s/he can’t take it with her/him; taxes teach her/him that s/he can’t leave it behind, either.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

We don’t just receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
~ Unknown

Teaching is one of the few professions that permit love.
~ Theodore Roethke

I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do, any kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
~ Unknown

People will believe anything if you whisper it.
~ The Farmer’s Almanac

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller

Reading furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge; thinking makes what we read ours.
~ John Locke

We make our living by what we do. We make our life by what we give.
~ Danny Glover

Success comes not as much by changing the circumstances of our lives as by changing our attitude toward them.
~ Unknown

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
~ Rene Descartes

Now every field is clothes with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its joyful attire.
~ Virgil

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
~ Joseph Addison

The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The things that matter the most in this world can never be held in our hand.
~ Gloria Gaither

As light is pleasant to the eye, so truth is to the understanding.
~ Richard Pelham

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