Anne Sullivan > Quotes

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.”
― Anne Sullivan

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ”
― Anne Sullivan

“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.”
― Anne Sullivan

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
― Anne Sullivan

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
― Anne Sullivan

“Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.”
― Anne Sullivan

“The misfortunes of the disinherited of the world rouse in me not only compassion but a fierce indignation.”
― Anne Sullivan

“Unexpected good has filled the chinks of frustration in my life.”
― Anne Sullivan

“Fellow-graduates: Duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.”
― Anne Sullivan

“I have lost my patience and courage many, many times; but I have found that one difficult task accomplished makes the next easier.”
― Anne Sullivan