Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan,
professional basketball player, businessperson
February is Black History Month
“If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I’ve accomplished something.”
John Glenn
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
Eric Thomas – Motivational Speaker-Author-Minister
“Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.”
Steve Irwin
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge
“This is the world you have made yourself; now you have to live in it.”
Nina Simone
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
Johnny Cash
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Socrates
“I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.”
Phil Knight
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
St. Francis de Sales
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve.
Unknown
Tag: Learning
Quotes February 26, 2024
Quotes June 14, 2022
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
James Baldwin,
writer
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” – John Stuart Mill
“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”
Thurgood Marshall
(I disagree. It depends on the situation, especially the death of a loved one.)
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from “The Pearl of Orr’s Island”
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886 – American Lyric-Poet
Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
Anderson Cooper,
broadcast journalist, anchor
June is Pride Month
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Unknown
Quotes September 09, 2018
All I’m ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
O Tillett Wright
Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Frank McKinney
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Leo Tolstoy
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver
It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.
Danish
You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
Anne Lamott
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau
An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him.
ELIZA COOK
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
Emily Brontë
The establishment of any relationship, both individual and expert is honesty.
Alexander Mejia
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
Honesty is one of the most important parts of any marriage.
Amanda Thompson
It’s difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.
Carlos Wallace
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
Susan Cain
I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky – I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.
Ben Silbermann
Honesty doesn’t always pay, but dishonesty always costs.
Michael Josephson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Teresa
The first step is to be honest, and then to be noble.
Winston Churchill
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Mary Browne
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
True honesty is hard. Throughout my career, I’ve faced moments where I’ve needed to take an honest look at myself and face some very uncomfortable realities.
Les Brown
I admire honesty more than any other trait.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Honesty and loyalty are key.
Taylor Lautner

