Horace Mann Quotes about Inspirational

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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Education, School

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Success, Reading

Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Happiness, Color

Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.49

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Horace Mann

Inspirational, Night, Sky

Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.72