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Teacher Quotes

Aug 28th, 2010
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We have collected and curated this huge collection of quotes and sayings about teachers. Feel free to add your own in the comments below.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~Edith Ann

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
~ Cicero

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~Swami Vivekananda

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
~Alexander the Great

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
~Newton D. Baker

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
~Philip Wylie

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
~Bob Talbert

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
~John C. Dana

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~Confucius

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~Author Unknown

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
~Author Unknown

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
~ Socrates

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
~Chinese Proverb

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~H.G. Wells

Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.
~Theresa Grimm

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
~Author Unknown

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~Amos Alcott

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~Benjamin Franklin

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
~Bill Gates

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
~Helen Keller

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~Gail Godwin

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~George Bernard Shaw

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
~The Talmud

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
~Author Unknown

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~Thomas Szaz

To teach is to learn twice.
~Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice over.
~Joseph Joubert

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~Hector Berlioz

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
~Bill Gates

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
~The Talmud

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
~Louis Berman

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
~Helen Peters

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~ Cynthia Ozick

There are two good reasons to be a teacher – July, and August!
~Author Unknown

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.
~Khalil Gibran

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~Gail Godwin

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
~Tryon Edwards

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland

Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures;
astronomy teaches us to know the stars.
~Latin Maxim

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

We learn by teaching.
~James Howell

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
~Anonymous

A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~Anonymous

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
~Anonymous

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~Anonymous

By viewing the old we learn the new
~Chinese Proverb

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Adams

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
~Josef Albers

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences…
~Amos Alcott

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Tennyson

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
~Robert Frost

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
~ Horace Mann

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~ Confucius

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
~Alvin Toffler

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~Horace Mann

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Driving Quotes

Aug 27th, 2010
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
~George Carlin

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
~Erma Bombeck

A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.
~Andrew H. Malcolm

A quote on reckless driving:
Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
~Marlen E. Pew

Here is a Funny Driving Quote:
I can’t swim. I can’t drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?
~ Dylan Moran

A quotes on self reliance using driving as a metaphor:
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t like being in the passenger seat when a crazy woman’s driving, that’s for sure!
~Mark Wahlberg, Movie Actor

Something you will see often in India. This is a funny quote on Traffic rules or the lack of it.
A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.
~Henry Morgan

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.
~ Dan Rather

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~Mac McCleary

Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.
~Tommy Lasorda

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
~Jean Baudrillard

On Drunk Driving:
The only safe amount of alcohol when you are mixing driving and drinking is zero — double zeros, no alcohol.
~Tina Pascoe

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~Albert Einstein

A proverb on driving:
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~American Proverb

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
~Funny driving quote from a movie by Robin Williams

Driving quote on going green:
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.
~A Highway safety billboard message

Who says that driving is only an industrial era phenomena:
On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park.
~Curtis McDougall

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
~Stirling Moss

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
~Will Rogers .. Won’t do much for the economy, but would help avert the credit crisis that often comes every few years.

Another funny quote on safe driving:
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ~Dudley Moore

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.
-A quote about safety for children when driving

Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.
~Grey Livingston.. Another funny quote on driving I like.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.
~Tommy Cooper

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key
~Edward Abbey

Another Highway billboard for safety driving, in the interest of the public:
Drive carefully! Remember, it’s not only a car that can be recalled by it’s maker.

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Diplomacy Quotes

Aug 25th, 2010
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Here is a collection of our favorite quotes and sayings on DIplomacy.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~Bisaac Goldberg

A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion.
~Harold MacMillan

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
~Will Rogers

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
~ Andrew Young

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~Daniel Pipes

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
~Trygve Lie

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.”
~Charles De Gaulle

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
~Sir Winston Churchill

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
~David Lloyd George

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
~Randolph Bourne

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
~Yassir Arafat

Diplomacy – The art of letting other people achieve your ends
~ Unknown

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
~ Will Smith

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.
~James Reston

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
~Will Durant

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
~ Otto von Bismarck

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
~Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
~John Bolton

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
~Ambrose Bierce

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
~Will Durant

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
~ Joseph Stalin

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.
~Author Unknown

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
~ Caskie Stinnett

DIPLOMACY is the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
~Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
~ Kofi Busia

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
~Di Cavour

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
~Will Rogers

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten
~Mark Twain

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
~ Daniele Vare

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Duty Quotes

Aug 24th, 2010
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Here is my personal Favorite quote on Duty:

“Anytime you give up pleasure for duty, you’re a stronger person.”

::When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough: I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
~Henry Fielding

:: Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
~Robert E. Lee

:: Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
~Mohandas Gandhi

:: Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde

:: Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Sir Francis Bacon

:: A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell

::To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~ Buddha

:: Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

:: Duty is ours; results are God’s
~ John Quincy Adams

:: The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
~Paul Ricoeur

:: Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
~John Ruskin

:: Duty is not collective; it is personal
~ Calvin Coolidge

:: Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

:: The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
~Herbert Spencer

:: You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
~Joseph Conrad

::Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
~Lord Alfred Tennyson

:: Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
~Mencius

:: The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.
~ George Eliot

:: Simply duty hath no place for fear.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

:: No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
~Edwin Hubbel Chapin

:: Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
~ Immanuel Kant

:: Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
~ Ambrose Bierce

:: Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
~Joseph Joubert

:: Love can do much, but duty more.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

:: Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
~Mark Twain

:: Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

::A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell

:: The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
~Alexis Carrel

:: There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

:: I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
~Helen Keller

:: But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
~Oliver Goldsmith

:: Duty cannot exist without faith.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

:: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
~ George Bernard Shaw

:: No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
~Saint Augustine

:: We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

:: Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.
~Pierre Corneille

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Dreams Quotes

Aug 23rd, 2010
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“I have a Dream”
This simple words moved a Million people. These simple words, from an ordinary man, gave hopes and dreams to a few million African Americans, few decades back and to millions of other people all over the world. These words still give us Hope even today.

We cannot stop dreaming, because without it, we cease to live. Not dying is not equal to living, but do you just want to survive? To Dream, and to chase Dreams, to wake up and fulfill dreams is what makes a men or woman succeed. Here are some inspirational quotes about dreams.

Lets dream some!

:: You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.
~ John Lennon

:: The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

:: The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
~ Tom Bradley

:: You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
~ George Bernard Shaw

:: I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~ Thomas Jefferson

:: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C.S. Lewis

:: The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
~ Heywood Broun

:: The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

:: Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
~ Henry David Thoreau

:: When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
~ Dom Helder Camara

:: Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
~ Epicurus

:: The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
~ Will Duran

::We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~John F. Kennedy

:: Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~ Gloria Steinem

:: I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
~Aeschylus

:: Hope is a waking dream.
~Aristotle

:: Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t.
~Brett Butler

::A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~John Barrymore

:: If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~ Marcel Proust

:: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Anatole France

:: The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
~ Kahlil Gibran

:: Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~Ashley Smith

:: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde

:: Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~ Carl Jung

:: There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
~ Victor Hugo

:: Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
~Michel de Montaigne

:: No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
~ Marian Wright Edelman

:: Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
~ Anais Nin

:: Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
~Henri Amiel

:: Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

:: A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
~The Talmud

:: Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Most Interesting Man in the World Quotes

Aug 22nd, 2010
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OK, this is a Fun page. You have all seen the the Most interesting man in the World commercial. If you haven’t, it is a Beer commercial for Dos Equis. If you haven’t, then take a moment to see the compilation of the videos below. I have embedded it from youtube. [ Not my creation] Then you will find the quotations below hopefully very funny. I found them to be some of the funniest quotes..

So, here are the quotes from the world’s most interesting Man.

“He once beat Gary Kasparov at Chess, with his left hand”

“He once traveled to and explored the Virgin Islands, when he left they were just “The Islands.”

“His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser mans body.”

“He is the only person Chuck Norris has apologized to. ”

“He went to watch a Tennis Match once and that was only one Match where John Mc Enroe didn’t swear or throw his Racket”

“He counts his chickens before they hatch…and they always hatch. ”

“He once asked a woman to say ‘NO’ to him, so he could understand rejection. ”

“He considers the practicing of any skill to be a form of cheating. ” He only need to do it once to be an expert.

” The pheromones he secretes effect people miles away… in a slight, but measurable way.”

“He was the featured man at a bachelorette auction he brought in over 13 million euro, under the table.”

“He can make orange juice, out of apples. ”

“His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards”

“He speaks fluent French, in Russian.”

“His charm is so contagious, vaccines we’re created for it.”

“Years ago, he created a city out of blocks. Today over 600,000 people live and work there.”

“He is so gentle with women, yet some faint at his touch”

“He is always on the right side of the tracks, even if he crossed to the other side, he’d still be on the right side. ”

“Even the deaf can hear him Speak.”

“Mike Tyson refused to fight with him”

Here is the Man:

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Effort Quotes

Aug 15th, 2010
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This is our collection of Effort Quotes and sayings..
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~Proverb

Effort doesn’t just mean physical or mental labor. It is about anything that you put yourself into.
eg: Checkout this quote by Tom Robbins
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
~Edward H. Harriman

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Edison

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~ Napoleon Hill

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
~Winston Churchill

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
~Garth Henrichs

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
~Mark Burnett

If you can’t excell with talent, triumph with effort.
~Dave Weinbaum

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
~Mohandas Gandhi

Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
~James A. Garfield

It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
~ Henry David Thoreau

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
~Sam Ewing

The footprint of the owner is the best manure.
~English Proverb

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
~Mark Twain

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
~Will Rogers

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.
~Albert Einstein

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~George Santayana

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result
~James Allen

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
~Sarah Brown

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
~Publilius Syrus

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Publilius Syrus

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
~José Ortega y Gassett

People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.
~Author Unknown

If you can walk, you can run.
~Publilius Syrus

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.
~Chinese Saying

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
~T.S. Eliot

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
~Publilius Syrus

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
~Benjamin Franklin

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
~Vince Lombardi

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things
~ Theodore Roosevelt

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph de Maistre

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
~Heywood Hale Broun

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
~J.G. Holland

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
~Ulysses S. Grant

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
~Joseph Heller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
~Helen Keller

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
~American Proverb

God gave us two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose.
~Author Unknown

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~Napoleon Hill

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~Plutarch

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb

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Labor Day Quotes

Aug 10th, 2010
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A very Happy Labor Day to everyone, if you happen to visit this site on the Labor day.

This collection of famous quotes on labor day was inspired by this saying:

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up
another.
~Anatole France

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
~ Horace

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
~ Horace

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~Aristotle

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
~John Locke

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ~Doug Larson

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor
~ Bertrand Russell

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
~ Henry van Dyke

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity – Posterity has done nothing for us.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
~ H.L. Mencken

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
~ H.M. Tomlinson

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle

A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
~ Scott Johnson

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
~H.L. Mencken

There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That’s a power, that’s a power that must rule in every land.
~ Joe Hill

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~ Adam Smith

The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert Hubbard

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
~Bill Dodds

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Hitler is famous for the wrong reasons, but he was indeed a great thinker as well.
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.
~ Adolf Hitler

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th’ unlearned, and make the learned smile.
~ Alexander Pope

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity – Posterity has done nothing for us.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson

The highest pleasure to be gout out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
~Mark Twain

If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators
~ Bertrand Russell

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Education Quotes

Aug 8th, 2010
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On the present state of Education:
Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
~ G. M. Trevelyan

But again:
Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
~ William Allin

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
~ Laurence J. Peter

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Brooks Adams

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
~ Perelman

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~John Maynard Keynes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~Robert Frost

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
~Will Rogers

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
~ Vernon Law (More Experience Quotes)

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~Aristotle

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~Robert Frost

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~William Butler Yeats

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett

The highest result of education is tolerance.
~ Helen Keller

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~Gail Godwin

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
~Carl Rogers

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
~ Herbert Spencer

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
~Cornelius Vanderbilt

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~Ambrose Bierce

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
~Henry David Thoreau

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
~Peter Drucker

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
~Chinese Proverbs

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~ Mark Twain

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
~ Albert Einstein

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
~ Plato

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~G.K. Chesterton

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~Albert Einstein

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
~Martin H. Fischer

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others
~ Grayson Kirk

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
~Sir Claus Moser

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
~Martin H. Fischer

An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.
~Source Unknown

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
~Robert Maynard Hutchins

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
~Walt Disney

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
~ Henry Peter Broughan

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
~Heinrich Heine

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
~Anatole France

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~ Malcolm Forbes

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
~Mark Twain

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
~C. S. Lewis

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Debt Quotes

Aug 6th, 2010
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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No man’s credit is as good as his money.
~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
~Kin Hubbard

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
~ Italian Proverb

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
~Bill Balance

‘Tis against some men’s principle to pay interest, and seems against others’ interest to pay the principle.
~Benjamin Franklin

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.
~Joyce Brothers

It is possible to pay another man’s debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.
~Carl Lofmark

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
~ Austin O’malley

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
~Author Unknown

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Benjamin Franklin

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

A man in debt is so far a slave.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt is the slavery of the free
~Publilius Syrus

Debts and lies are generally mixed together
~Francois Rabelais

He that dies pays all debts
~ William Shakespeare

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
~American Proverb

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
~American Saying

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~Benjamin Franklin

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
~Dutch Proverb

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
~Will Rogers

Debt is the worst poverty.
~Thomas Fuller

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
~Sir Philip Sidney

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
~Samuel Johnson

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
~Oscar Wilde

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
~Earl Wilson

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
~George D. Prentice

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
~ Publilius Syrus

Never spend your money before you have it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
~Robert Service

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
~Herbert Hoover

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
~Euripides

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
~Wendell Phillips

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
~Moliere

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
~Henry Wheeler Shaw

Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow
~Seneca

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
~Ogden Nash

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime
~Benjamin Disraeli

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