Quotes to Ponder

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -Maya Angelou Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. -Marva Collins Child, give me your hand That I may walk in the light Of your faith in me. -Hannah Kahn Those who are humble do not think less of themselves, they simply think of themselves less. -Ken Blanchard If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it. -Chila If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. -James Freeman Clarke You have to think anyway, so why not think big? -Donald Trump We must teach our children to dream with open eyes. -Harry Edwards Two roads diverge in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost If you don't execute your ideas...they'll die. -Robert Percival Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people to catch yours? -Bob Moawad If you're too busy to help the people around you succeed, you're too busy. -Bob Moawad Character is what you are in the dark. -Dwight Moody Inches make champions. -Vince Lombardi I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible. -Henry Ford Be gentle and patient with people. Everyone's bruised. -Katie Lambert The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. -Hazrat Inayat Khan Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln Children Learn What They Live -Dorothy Law Nolte If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn, If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves. If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy. If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy. If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty. If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence. If children live with tolerance, they learn patience. If children live with praise, they learn appreciation. If children live with acceptance, they learn to love. If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves. If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal. If children live with sharing, they learn generosity. If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness. If children live with fairness, they learn justice. If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect. If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them. If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live. Trust yourself.You know more than you think you do. -Dr. Spock Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. -Anne Herbert I am made of all that I have seen. -Henri Matisse What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! – Emerson No act of love, however small, is ever wasted. -Aesop When death finds you, hope that it finds you alive. - Japanese proverb If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. -Booker T. Washington Talent is God-given; be thankful Praise is man-given; be humble. Conceit is self-given; be careful. -Dave Driscoll Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us. -Rabbi David Wolpe Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -Charles R. Swindoll Children have more need of models than of critics. -Joseph Joubert

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