educator Quotes

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin on Love

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• love

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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• Growth

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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• love

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

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• come

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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• change

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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• experience

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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• Change

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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• Change

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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• Education

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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• inspirational

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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• Service

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.

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• careful

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

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• Success

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

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• Sin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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• Children

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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• success

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

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• Self

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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• Ability

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

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• actively

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

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• Problems

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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• Fellowship

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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• strength

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

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• Dreams

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

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• Self

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

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• Racism

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

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• bullet

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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• poverty

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

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• Career

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

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• certain

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

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• christmas

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

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• teacher

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

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• Identity

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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• become

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

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• Anger

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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• Hate

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

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• Personality

The less routine the more life.

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• Life

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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• Habits

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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• Habits

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

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• Change

It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation.

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• Attitude

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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• Teaching

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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• Quotations

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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• Leadership

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

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• God

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.

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• Character

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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• books

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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• Risk

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

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• Reading

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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• Excellence