quotes for teachers

When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams



A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard



Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. ~Aldous Huxley



Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington



Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man. ~Author Unknown



It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb



Thomas Jefferson: "Yes, yes of course, we go to war and protest going to war at the same time...."



People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



Worry bankrupts the spirit. ~Berri Clove



There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000



The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981



Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Depression is rage spread thin. ~George Santayana



Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863



Quote A: �Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.� ~Terri Guillemets



There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin



You own a dog but you feed a cat. ~Jenny de Vries



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. ~Karl Friedrich Gauss