Inspiration Quotes - Page 18

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.