Inspirational Quotes
"There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options."
-- Rod Paige, Secretary of Education
"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"When you are wrestling with a gorilla, you don’t stop when you are tired; you stop when the gorilla is tired."
-- Robert Strauss
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for (good) people to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world of full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-- Calvin Coolidge
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-- Maya Angelou
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute."
-- Proverbs 31:8
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen Keller
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
-- Anonymous
“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”
-- Doris Lessing
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us, there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
--John F. Kennedy
The only people who don’t make mistakes are the ones who aren’t doing anything.
--Anonymous
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
-- Lord Acton to Bishop Creighton, 1887
“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
-- Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights leader, 1820-1906
“Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.”
-- Marian Wright Edelman, children’s advocate
"Regardless of how good of a swim instructor you are, you can't teach a person to swim in the parking lot of a swimming pool."
-- Norman Kunc
“Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.”
-- Judge Richard A. Posner, Kijonka v. Seitzinger, et al., 363 F.3d 645, 646 (7th Cir. 2004).
“He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.”
-- Friedrich Nietzche
“There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”
-- U.S. Supreme Court
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