Aim for success, not perfection.
Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. David M. Burns A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry B Adams Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant The difference between school and life? In school, youre taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, youre given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and Ill understand. Chinese proverb If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesnt need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Jim Rohn People learn something every day, and a lot of times its that what they learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. Claus Moser What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. Joseph Addison
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Peter Brougham Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time for we are bound by that but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T.S. Eliot If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B. King
Thomas Edison The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stickto-it-iveness, and third, common sense. Martin Luther King Jr. The time is always right to do what is right. Norman Vincent Peale The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Jon Holt The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. Michelangelo The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. The Bible, John 8:32 The truth shall make you free. Robert J. Havighurst The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. Anonymous The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy. Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living.
Robert H. Schuller It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. Vince Lombardi It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up. Special Olympics Motto Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. Ronald Reagan My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. Doug Williams Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. Norman Vincent Peale Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. Al Gore No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. Dwight Eisenhower No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. William Penn No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. Napoleon Hill Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.