Horace Mann Famous Quotes
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
Horace Mann Quotations
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C Maxwell
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts."
Sir Arthur Keith
"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."
Edward BulwerLytton
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
Plutarch
One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.
Rabbi David Wolpe
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
W S Gilbert
"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth."
Peter McWilliams
"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."
Homer
"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
John Holt
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates