| quote | author | category |
|---|---|---|
| 4 eyes see more than 2 | motivation | |
| A baby is god s opinion that the world should go on. | Carl Sandburg | motivation |
| A bone to a dog is not a charity, charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog. | Jack Londom | character motivation |
| A book is a mirror: if an Ass peers into it you can t expect an apostle to look out. | G. C. Lichtenberg | education |
| A book is a mirror: if an Ass peers into it you can t expect an apostle to look out. | G.C. Lichtenberg | |
| A child eduated only at school is an uneducated child. | George Santayana | |
| A child mis-educated is a child lost. | John F. Kennedy | education |
| A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. | Henrik Ibsen | politics education |
| A dollar invested in a bank will earn five cents each year. A dollar invested in a good book will completely change a life. | H. Ford | economics education |
| A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. | J. D. Rockefeller | economics character |
| A girl was born the summer, but now has her birthday in the winter. How can this be? | riddle | |
| A good dog deserves a good bone | motivation | |
| A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. | Samuel Butler | motivation education |
| A horse must be broke before he ll work. So must some people. | character economics | |
| A little neglect may bread mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse rider was lost. | Ben Franklin | motivation character |
| A man can bring a horse to water, but he can not make him drink. | motivation | |
| A man only learns in 2 ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. | Will Rogers | education |
| A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry, and by a common hate of its neighbors. | Dana William Inge | politics philosophy |
| A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. | Torquato Tason | character |
| A person could get along just fine without money if other people weren t so crazy about it. | economics humor | |
| A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter. | character | |
| A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter. | ||
| A smart aleck is a fellow who thinks he knows as much as you know you do. | education conflict | |
| A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. | Proverbs 15:1 | conflict |
| A student can understand only what he has been prepared to understand; a teacher can teach only what he knows; and the meeting of the prepared student with the artful teacher is as unforgettable encounter for both. | R. D. Sweetland | education |
| A student can understand only what he has been prepared to understand; a teacher can teach only what he knows; and the meeting of the prepared student with the artful teacher is as unforgettable encounter for both. | RDS | |
| A thinking person is guided by the facts no matter how unreal they may be. | education | |
| A thinking person learns from the mistakes of others with out rejoicing in their mistakes. | education humane | |
| A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest are not always the same. | motivation education | |
| A thinking person realizes that the right way and the easiest are not always the same. | ||
| A truth told with a bad intent beats all he lies you can invent. | Wm. Blake | character |
| A wise son maketh a glad father. | Proverbs 10:1 | character education |
| A word to the wise is sufficient. | education | |
| Ability is of little account with out opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte | education |
| Ability is the arto of getting credit for all the homeruns somebody else hits. | Casey Stengel | humor sports |
| Accept me as I am so I may learn what I can become. | humane education | |
| Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. | Adlal E. Steveson | character |
| Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. | Fred Allen | education media |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. | Stephan B. Leacock | education media |
| Advertising promotes that discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. | Ralph Butler | eduation media motivation |
| Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most like it the least. | Lord Chesterfield | conflict motivation |
| After the event the fool is wise. | Homer | education |
| Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever thinking, all in mail, never clinking. | riddle | |
| All change is not growth; all movement is not forward | Ellen Glasgow | education |
| All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. | education | |
| All the experiences is an arch to build upon. | Henry B. Adams | education |
| All the modern inconveniences | Mark Twain | education |
| Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest. | Mark Twain | character education |
| Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. | Eruipides | character |
| An idea is salvation by imagination. | Frank Lloyd Wright | Education |
| An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | Ben Franklin | education economics |
| Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. | Robert G. Ingersoll | conflict |
| Anger is a stone cast into a wasp nest. | Malabar Proverb | conflict |
| Anticipation is the greatest joy | motivation education | |
| Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere. | Gilbert Chesterton | character |
| Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere. | Gilbert Chesterton | |
| As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. | A. Einstein | politics conflict |
| As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. | Vicot Hugo | character motivation |
| Be strong and quiet yourself like a man. | Samuel 4:9 | conflict |
| Beauty is but skin deep. | Phillip James Bailey | motivation |
| Beauty is only skin deep, but it s a valuable asset if you re poor or haven t any sense. | Kin Hubbard | humor |
| Beauty isn t its own reward, being a form of peace. | Robert Nichols | character |
| Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them & it annoys one not to give to them. | Fredrick W. Nietzseh | economics humane |
| Behold the turtle only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. | motivation | |
| Being intelligent is not having some magic formula which one can apply to every problem. It is, rather, having a number of ideas and not being as much in love with one that it cannot be dropped for another. | wisdom | |
| Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. | William James | motivation |
| Beware of those who fall at your feet they maybe reaching for the corner of the rug. | conflict education | |
| Beware the fury of the patient man | John Dryden | education |
| Books are windows through which our souls look out. | Beecheer | education |
| Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. | Sam Paterson | character |
| Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies | Honore de Balzac | politics |
| Business is a combination of war and sports. | Andre Maurois | economics |
| Business is like riding a bicycle: either you keep moving or you fall down. | economics | |
| Business will be better or worse. | Calvin Coolidge | business politics humor |
| Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. | Austikn O Malley | character |
| Caution human beings here handle with care. | humane | |
| Censorship reflects a society s lact of confidence in itself. | Potter Stewart | character politics |
| Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. | Elizabeth Clarke Dunn | character |
| Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. | Robert Friedman | character |
| Character is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. | Henri Amriel | character |
| Character is simply habit long continued | Plutarch | character |
| Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. | Philander Johnson | motivation |
| Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Some people go through life creaking. | H. W. Byles | character motivation |
| Children are our most valuable natural resource. | Herbert Hoover | education |
| Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. | Marcelence Cox | education |
| Children learn to creep before they learn to go. | J. Heywood | education |
| Christmas would mean nothing if it were not shared with someone. | Charles Towne | holidays |
| Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. | Mark Twain | politics |
| Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point is all response is the desire to control environment. | John Dewey | conflict |
| Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. | Josh Billings | motivation |
| Courtesy: Good manners may in seven words be found: Forget yourself and think of those around. | humane character | |
| Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. | Charles Hole | character |
| Development is programmable; discovery is not. | Buckminster Fuller | |
| Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way | Isaac Goldberg | politics conflict |
| Disregard for human beings is the 1st qualification of a dictator | Milton S. Eisenhower | politics humane |
| Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. | motivation | |
| Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. | St. Francis De Sales | character |
| Do you know why lighting never strikes twice in the same place? It doesn t have to. | motivation | |
| Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but know one else does. | Steuart Britt | education media |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. | H. F. Amiel | education |
| Don't ever look back something might be gaining on you. | Satchel Page | wisdom |
| Don't let schooling interfere with your education. | Mark Twain | |
| Don t worry about getting old. When you stop getting old you re dead. | motivation | |
| Each dawn is a new beginning. | motivation | |
| Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. | Daniel J. Boorstin | |
| Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. | William Butler Yeats | |
| Even a clock is right twice a day | conflict education | |
| Every nation has a government it deserves. | Joseph De. Marstre | politics |
| Everyman has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. | Alphonse Karr | character |
| Everyman has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. | Alphonse Karr | |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy | character |
| Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. | education | |
| Everything in the world can be borne except a series of beautiful days. | motivation | |
| Experience is the fool s best teacher; the wise do not need it. | education | |
| Fair exchange is no robbery. | John Heywood | character economics |
| For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. | Isaih 55:8 | education conflict |
| Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. | Jim Rohn | |
| Four eyes see more than two. | ||
| Freedom is not enough. | Lyndon B. Johnson | politics multicultural poverty |
| Geniuses 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. | Tom Edison | education inspiration work |
| Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. | Giuseppe Garibaldi | conflict character |
| Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores | politics |
| Gossip is telling more then you heard. | character | |
| Greater love havth no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. | John 15:13 | character humane |
| Haste makes waste | J. Heywood | economics character motivation education |
| Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. | Henry Burton | motivation humane |
| He that is not with me is against me | Luke 11:23 | conflict |
| He that waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. | Samuel Johnson | character motivation |
| He who has done his best for his own time has done his best for all time. | Johann von Schiller | character |
| History is a race between education and catastrophe. | H. G. Wells | |
| Home is where the heart is | humane | |
| Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. | motivation | |
| I am enough of an artist to draw freely upoon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. | Albert Einstein | education |
| I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. | Wm Allen White | motivation |
| I am not young enough to know everything. | James Barrie | wisdom |
| I don t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong never do anything. | Henry Ward Beecher | character |
| I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. | Jonas Salk | motivation character |
| I have but one lamp by which to guide my feet, and that is the lamp of experience. | Patrick Henry | education |
| I haven t any time to make money, and I don t want any anyhow. Money is more trouble than it s worth. | Horace Greenley | economics |
| I like to be able to win without bragging and loose without crying | Julius Irving | character |
| I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. | Tre Cool - Green Day Band member | |
| I never could any luster see in eyes that would never look on me. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | motivation |
| I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. | Harry Truman | politics philosophy |
| I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. | Zsa Zsa Ganor | humor conflict resolution |
| I never met a man I didn t like. | Will Rogers | character humane |
| I occur once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet not once in a hundred thousand years. | riddle | |
| I often murmur, but never weep. Lie in bed but never sleep; My mouth is larger than my head, In spite of the fact I m seldom feed; I have no feet, yet swiftly run; shimmering, Saying dancing in the sun. | riddle | |
| I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall here after inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. From a letter of John Adams and inscribed on the mental of the white house dining room. Nov. MDCCC | John Adams Nov. MDCCC | character motivation education |
| I sometimes talk when I should not. So before I do I ll try to stop. | character conflict | |
| I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | politics peace philosophy |
| I we open a quarrel between the past and the present; we shall find that we have lost the future. | Winston Churchill | conflict education |
| I would rather be right then be president | Henry Clay | character conflict |
| I ll give you my first letter, my second letter and my third letter. In fact I ll give you all my letters, yet I ll always be the same. What am I? | riddle | |
| I m as round as the moon, people crush me, drink my blood and throw my skin away. | riddle | |
| I m only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. | Theodore Roosevelt | motivation |
| I ve never met a person, I don t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire , he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lives within. | Preston Bradley | motivation |
| If a child annoys you quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn t work, use the other side of the brush on the other side of the child. | motivation | |
| If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. | Mark 3:25 | conflict character humane |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. | Tom Jefferson | politics education |
| If I am not for myself who will be. But if I am only for myself, what am I. | Hillel | character |
| If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. | West osterlichen Diwan | education |
| If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. | Mrs. Pablo Picasso | humor |
| If only the people who say they feel fine would let their faces know. | motivation | |
| If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every phone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. Why wait until the last five minutes. | Christopher Morley | motivation character |
| If you haven t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. | Bob Hope | character |
| If you haven t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. | Bob Hope | |
| If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, the same as everywhere. | Werthers | education |
| If you only try to be as good as the next guy, you ll never be better than anyone. | R. D. Sweetland | motivation |
| If you run after two hares you will catch neither | motivation | |
| If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | education conflict motivation |
| If you win brag little, show well, crow gently,- if loose pay up, own up. These are virtues of a sporting man | Oliver Wendell Holmes | humane conflict |
| Imagination rules the world. | Naboleon I | education |
| In sleep we are all equal. | humane character | |
| In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. | Pliny the Elder | politics character education |
| In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. | Pliny the Elder | |
| In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. | John Lubbock | motivation |
| Indeed, a friend is ne-er known till a man have need. | J. Heywood | character humane |
| Information is not knowledge. | Albert Einstein | |
| Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. | Eugene Debs | history politics human |
| Is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants | Isaac Newton | education character |
| Isn t it strange how much we ve got to know before we know how little we know? | education | |
| It can t be seen, can t be felt, can t be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. | riddle | |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. | Albert Einstein | |
| It is better to learn late than never. | Publius Syrus | education |
| It is more blessed to give than to receive. | Acts 21:35 | character humane |
| It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. | Benjamin Disraeli | conflict character |
| It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are you busy about? | Henry David Thoreau | education |
| It is not how long we live but how well we live. | John Hay | character motivation |
| It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy. | education | |
| It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes us happy. | ||
| It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one s lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. | Percy Johnson | motivation character |
| It never matters how a man dies, but how he lives. | Sam Johnson | motivation character |
| Justice is incidental to law and order. | J. Edgar Hoover | politics philosophy |
| 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. | M. Twain | character education conflict motivation |
| Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. it is automatic, it is thoughtless. | Duckworth | |
| Knowledge brings the responsibility of choice. | education | |
| Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | education |
| Knowledge is a power. | Thomas Hoffes | education |
| Knowledge is a power. | Thomas Hoffes | |
| Knowledge is ruin to my young men. | Adolf Hitler | politics education |
| Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. | Ben Franklin | character economics |
| Leap out of the frying pan into the fire | J. Heywood | economics character motivation |
| Learning grows out of child's direct actions on materials. | Homann & Weikart, 1992 p. 38 | |
| Let us not say that every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character. | G. D. Boardman | character |
| Life affords no higher pleasure then that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. | Samuel Johnson | motivation |
| Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse. | Edna St. Vincent Millay | motivation |
| Life is a theater in which the worst people often have the best seats. | Aristonymus | conflict motivation character |
| Life is before you; not an earthly life alone, but an endless life; a thread running interminably through the work of eternity. | J.G. Holland | education |
| Life is like a fire; it begins in smoke, and ends in ashes. | ||
| Life is one long process of getting tired. | Sam Butler | motivation |
| Life is real! Life is earnest! And they grave is not the goal; Dust thou art, to dust returneth, Was not spoken of the soul. | Henery W Longfellow | education |
| Live your own life, for you will die your own death. | character | |
| Look before you leap | J. Heywood | education character motivation |
| Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you. - Make yourself necessary to somebody. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | motivation |
| Make yourself necessary to somebody. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | motivation humane |
| Man is of ordinary things and habit is his nurse. | Johann von Schiller | character |
| Man s inhumanity to can makes countless thousands morn. | Robert Burns | humane |
| Many hands make work light | J. Heywood | humane education |
| Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. | John H. Payne | humane |
| Misery aqquaints a man with strange bedfellows. | Wm Shakespeare | education motivation |
| Misery aqquaints a man with strange bedfellows. | Wm Shakespeare | |
| Mrs. Woodrow Wilson boasted that Woodrow spent more money for books than the family spent on clothes. | education | |
| My education was interrupted only by my schooling. | Winston Churchill | |
| My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington. | motivation economics |
| Myths can be dispelled when a critical mass of people see it as false. | ||
| Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. | Epicurus | character motivation |
| Nothing is so good as it seems before hand. | George Eliot | character motivation |
| Now that the old lion is dead, every ass thinks he may kick at him. | Boswell | character |
| Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive. | Sir Walter Scott | conflict character motivation |
| Old age is not for sissies. | motivation | |
| One good turn deserves another. | J. Heywood | character humane |
| One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows | Torquato Tassc | character |
| One who finds fault but does not learn is likely to repeat others errors. | education | |
| One who is merely clever feels he has nothing to learn from others. | education character | |
| One who is ruled by emotions often stumbles before reaching the goal. | conflict education character | |
| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. | John F. Kennedy | |
| Out of the strain of the doing, into the strain of the done. | Julia Woodruff | motivation |
| Pain is short and joy is eternal | Johann von Schiller | motivation |
| People believe only what they want to believe. | character education | |
| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. | Gilbert Chesterton | character conflict |
| Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. | Ben Lindsay | character politics |
| Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the U.S. | Porferio Diaz | politics |
| Positive anything is better than negative nothing. | Elbert Whitehead | character |
| Praise makes good men better and bad men worse | Thomas Fuller | motivation |
| Repetition is the mother of education | Jean Paul Richter | education |
| Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas. | character | |
| Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. | Mark Twain | education |
| Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. | Francis Bacon | education |
| Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they look indispensable | Kin Hubbard | character |
| Success has ruined many a man | Ben Franklin | character education |
| Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. | Chinese Proverb | |
| The absent are always in the wrong. | English proverb | character |
| The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. | Charles Reade | conflict |
| The best way I know of winning an argument is to start by being in the right. | Lord Hailsham | conflict |
| The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. | Mark Twain | motivation humane |
| The better part of valour is discretion. | WM. Shakespeare | conflict humane character |
| The early bird catches the worm | motivation | |
| The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | |
| The first requisite of a good citizen is this republic of ours is that he should be able to pull his own weight. | T. Roosevelt | politics |
| The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that ppicture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit, but steadily building, steadily building. | Robert Coller | education |
| The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving | O Wendell Holmes | education motivation |
| The greatest kindness we can offer each other is the truth. | humane character motivation | |
| The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. | W. R. Wallace | humane |
| The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. | Henry Ford | economics |
| The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the man who borrow, and the men who lend. | Charles Lamb | economics |
| The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. | Winston Churchill | politics humane |
| The lord prefers common looking people. That is reason he makes so many of them. | Abe Lincoln | motivation humane |
| The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can t read | Mark Twain | education |
| The man who has no imagination has no wings. | Muhammad Ali | education |
| The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. | Samuel Butler | character motivation |
| The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. | Wilhelm Stekel | character |
| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires | William A. Ward | |
| The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. | Plutarch | |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | Albert Einstein | education |
| The mouth is 1% teeth and 99% bad breath | Ted Hoffman | humor |
| The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured | Konrad Ademauer | education conflict |
| The only way to have a friend is be one. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | humane character |
| The physician can buy his mistakes but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. | Frank Loyd Wright | errors |
| The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. | Jean Piaget | |
| The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. | A. Lincoln | humane character |
| The question Who ought to be boss is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. | Henry Ford | education |
| The responsibilities of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. | Harry S Truman | politics |
| The sweetest of all sounds is praise | Zenophon | motivation |
| The trust of life is to know the life that never ends. | Penn | education |
| The weather cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. | Heinrich Heine | conflict |
| ... the word education has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force. | Hannah Arendt | |
| The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. | Laurence Lee | education motivation |
| The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. | Charles F. Kettering | education character |
| The worst thing that can happen is that a person doesn t count. | Sidney Jourard | humane |
| There are three faithful friends- an old wife, an old dog and ready money. | Ben Franklin | economy politics character |
| There are three faithful friends- an old wife, and old dog and ready money. | Ben Franklin | economics humor |
| There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. | Phyllis Bottome | conflict motivation education character |
| There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. | education character | |
| There is many a slip (between) twixt the cup and the lip | Wm. Hazlitt | education |
| There is no such thing as a self made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. | George M. Adams | motivation character |
| There is nothing permanent except change. | Heraclitus | education character |
| There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. | character | |
| There s none so blind as they that won t see | Jonathan Swift | education |
| These three soon pass away: the echo, the rainbow, and the beauty of a woman. | character motivation | |
| They can because they think they can. | motivation | |
| Thinking is hard work. | education | |
| Thirty days hath November, April, June and September; February hath twenty-eight alone and all the rest have thirty-one. | holidays | |
| This thing all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, and flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel: grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down. | riddle | |
| Those who don t read have no advantage over those who can t. | education | |
| Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. | Mark Twain | conflict |
| To be able to listen to others in a sympathetic and understanding way is perhaps the most effective mechanism in the world for getting along with people and tying up their friendship for good. | Olover Wendell Holmes | education conflict |
| To forget the good that others do us is not good. To forget that ever day the evil done to us is good indeed. | Kural XI | character motivation humane |
| To teach is to learn twice. | Joseph Jaubert | education |
| To wonder is to begin to understand. | education | |
| To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, where as if we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent and silently steals away. | William James | conflict motivation |
| Truth generally is kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. | Samuel Butler | character humane |
| Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. | Albert Schweitzer | character |
| Turth generally is kindness, but where the tow diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. | Samuel Butler | |
| Two head are better the one. | J. Heywood | education |
| Two roads diverged into the woods, and I-I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. | R. Frost | education |
| Un-American is simply something that somebody else does not agree to. | Maury Maverick | politics philosophy |
| Up sluggard and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. | Ben Franklin | motivation |
| Virtue has always been conceived as victorious resistance to one's vital desire. | James Branch Cabell | morals |
| Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters toothless bites, mouthless mutters. | riddle | |
| We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. | L.L. Bryson | education character |
| We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law but we do want them for our brothers. | Booker T. Washington | humane conflict |
| We don t know one millionth of one per cent about anything. | T. Edison | education |
| We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the grain. | Wm. Alger | character education |
| We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. | L. B. Johnson | politics humane |
| We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall hand separately. | Ben Franklin | conflict education motivation |
| We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. | Martin Luther King | humane |
| We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not sured by another running mad also. | Antisthenes | conflict education |
| We should reshape our society so that we all would be trained from birth to do what society wants us to do. | James V. McConnell | politics |
| What ever begins in anger ends in shame. | Ben Franklin | conflict |
| What experience and history teach is this - that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. | G. Hegal | politics |
| What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. | Sappho | character |
| What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. | George Heged | education |
| What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. | Wm H. Davies | motivation education |
| What was valid yesterday is obsolete tomorrow. | education | |
| What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. | Benjamin Disraeli | education |
| When a critical mass of people believe a myth of inevitability true, it becomes reality. When existing beliefs are challenged a critical mass must be reached to achieve change. | R. D. Sweetland | |
| When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. | Oscar Wilde | humane |
| When a man is wrong and won t admit it, he always gets angry. | Haliburtion | conflict |
| When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, 100 | Tom Jefferson | conflict |
| When life hands you a lemon make lemonade. | motivation | |
| When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. | E. G. Stakman | conflict |
| When right, keep right, when wrong, put right. | Carl Schurz | character conflict |
| When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. | Wm. Wrigley Jr. | economics conflict |
| When you dream dream big. | education motivation | |
| When you start to sling mud you re loosing ground. | character | |
| Where there is no struggle there is no progress | Frederick Douglass | |
| Where there is no vision the people perish. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | education |
| Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life. | Samuel Ullman | education motivation |
| While there s life there s hope | motivation | |
| Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. | Johann von Schiller | motivation |
| Whoever seeks to see one race against another seeks to enslave all races. | F. D. Roosevelt | conflict politics |
| Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | motivation |
| Women s faults are many, Men have only two; everything they say and everything they do. | humor | |
| World history is the world s court. | Johann von Schilleer | politics |
| Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - Would ye both eat your cake and have cake? | J. Heywood | education motivation |
| You are only what you are when no one is looking. | Robert C. Edwards | character |
| You can t hold a man down with out staying down with him. | Booker T Washington | conflict character |
| You don t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. | A. Schweitzer | humane |
| You have not convinced a man, you have silenced him. | John Morley | conflict |
| You have to learn more to remember less. | R. D. Sweetland | education |
| You have two voices, Your outdoor voice is fine, I d say, For shouting out of doors, at play; but in the house we d all rejoice if you would use your indoor voice. Your outdoor voice is big and gruff and loudest when your games are rough. You indoor voice is soft and low when you re indoors, please keep it so. | Lillian Eichler Watson | motivation |
| You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue agree with him. | Ed. Howe | conflict |
| You must look into people as well as at them. | Lord Chesterfield | humane character |
| You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. | motivation | |
| You saw me where I never was and where I can t be; and yet within that very place, my face you often see. | riddle | |
| You stand in your own light | J. Heywood | character motivation |