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"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
172 people liked it

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

tags: education
396 people liked it

"Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats."
— Ron Paul

tags: education, politics
57 people liked it

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. "
— Abigail Adams

tags: education, learning
31 people liked it

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."
— Martin Luther

tags: education, faith, religion, religion-in-schools, scripture, teaching
25 people liked it

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: education
68 people liked it

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
— James Madison

tags: education, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, liberty, media
11 people liked it

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: education, liberty, vanity
20 people liked it

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

tags: physics, science
621 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,048 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,786 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,151 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
3,026 people liked it

"Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him."
— Kenneth Roberts

tags: chapter, oliver, wiswell, xii
2 people liked it

"Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

12 people liked it

"Remembering is a great invention of the mind."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

8 people liked it

"If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up. --Alex Rider"
— Anthony Horowitz

30 people liked it

"The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd"
— Anthony Horowitz (Point Blank)

69 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,406 people liked it

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
666 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,224 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,829 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational
1,103 people liked it

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique
520 people liked it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

775 people liked it

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational
468 people liked it

"...my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."
— Abraham Lincoln

198 people liked it

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"
— Abraham Lincoln

123 people liked it

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
— Abraham Lincoln

143 people liked it

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

103 people liked it

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work."
— Abraham Lincoln

99 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

407 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
3,150 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,883 people liked it

"I love you because I choose to, Not because I have to!"
— Andrea M. Kulman

20 people liked it

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