Motivational Quotes - Page 174

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

Failure is often the line of least persistence.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

All the world's a stage.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than the breaking.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.