Tea Quotes - Page 2

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

We must teach more by example than by word.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.