Educational Quotes - Page 29

• The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

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• Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Aesop

  Sheep, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

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• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thousand, Findings, Havens

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• We must be authors of the history of our age.

  Madeleine Albright

  Diversity, Age

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• You can't unscramble eggs.

  J. P. Morgan

  Eggs

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• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Genius, Percent

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• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Keys, Sloth, Rust

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

  Andre Previn

  Scare, Good Work, Ifs

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• For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Persistence, Hands, Battle

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

  Zhuangzi

  Contentment, Finding Happiness, Opinion

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• It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Healthy, Given, Humbling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The more he cast away, the more he had.

  John Bunyan

  Giving, Generosity, Cast Away

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

  Elizabeth I

  Eye, Sight, Age

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.386, University of Chicago Press

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• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

  Nancy Astor

  Time, Drinking, Food

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• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

  Alex Haley

  Hands, Fists

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

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• Appearances may be deceiving.

  Aesop

  May, Appearance, Deceiving

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• What its children become, that will the community become.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Children, Community

  ConcerningWomen "Woman and Marriage" (1926)

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Kissing, Two

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Men, Earth

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• Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

  William Penn

  Thieves, Flattery, Disguise

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.124

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• No man is hurt but by himself.

  Diogenes

  Hurt, Men, Conflict

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• Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Moving On, Strong

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• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

  Henry Fielding

  Enough

  'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 3

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• To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inheritance, Born, Stills

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