Teacher Quotes

“Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.”

“Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.”

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

“Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.”

“The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.”

“I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.”

“He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.”

“The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.”

“When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.”

“History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.”

“If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.”

“Be happy. Talk happiness.”

“So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”

“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”

“My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.”

“How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.”

“The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.”

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”

“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”

“When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.”