Teacher Quotes

“I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.”

“Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.”

“The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.”

“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”

“While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.”

“I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.”

“What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?”

“This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.”

“I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.”

“Literature is my Utopia”

“Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.”

“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”

“Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.”

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidentsof life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service.Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall forman invincible host against difficulty.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.”

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“Words are the mind's wings, are they not?”

“Ideas without action are useless.”

“The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.”