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Time can heal a broken heart, but time can also break a waiting heart. – Unknown
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Back to School Quotes
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~Margaret Laurence
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle
A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~W.H. Auden
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author Unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne
You can get all A’s and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
Creativity & Life Quotes
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Adam Lyons
Any intelligent fool can make things better, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift. That’s why this moment is called the present. Enjoy it. – Allan Johnson
If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – African proverb
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. – Jim Rohn
The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants. – My Big Fat Greek Wedding
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – William Shakespeare
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Anonymous
Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese proverb
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift
When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. – Unknown
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. – Johnny Depp
In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. – Laozi
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. – Laozi
Neil Gaiman Quotes
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
Also, I’ve already won all the awards. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I’m sure there are words that are simply in there ’cause I like them. I know I couldn’t justify each and every one of them. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I don’t know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it’s very, very classical, and in some ways I’m breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can’t do. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I think of myself as a very lazy author. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I’ve written. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I’ll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you’re trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I’m a fairly undisciplined writer. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman Quotes
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? – Neil Gaiman Quotes
25 Change Quotes
1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire
2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown
3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda
4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer
5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy
6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow
7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey
10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts
11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward
13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great
14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis
15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown
16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg
17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch
19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge
20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin
24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer
25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin
10 Life Lessons
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.” ~ Albert Einstein
Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don’t have the answers. And if you don’t have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else’s solutions will seem appropriate. You’ll have to come up with your own.” ~ Chuck Close
You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.” ~ Philip Glass
A big part of life is realizing what you’re good at.” ~ Alyssa Milano
Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That’s the secret to life, really — never stop learning. It’s the secret to career. I’m still working because I learn something new all the time. It’s the secret to relationships. Never think you’ve got it all.” ~ Clint Eastwood
You can’t just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.” ~ J. Craig Venter
A friend is someone who will tell you when you’re bullshitting, when you’ve overstepped a mark, or when you’re being an idiot.” ~ Sting
I think we will make it. Because one quality people have — certainly Americans have it — is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.”~ E. O. Wilson
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.” ~ Julia Child
In the end, winning is sleeping better.” ~ Jodie Foster
Brian Tracy Short Quotes
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. –Brian Tracy
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. –Brian Tracy
Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers. –Brian Tracy
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. –Brian Tracy
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. –Brian Tracy
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. –Brian Tracy
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. –Brian Tracy
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. –Brian Tracy
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. –Brian Tracy
Hayley Williams Quotes
“We’re so fortunate, we just don’t get it. We’ve been really blessed, and we’re trying to not to take it for granted.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove we’re as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldn’t say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they’re going home to and what they’re dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we’re their escape.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
“Be Unforgettable.” – Hayley Williams Quotes
25 Motivational Quotes
1. Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk. ~J.C. Penny
2. Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~Conrad Hilton
3. Intolerance of your present creates your future. ~Mike Murdock
4. When they back the ‘hearse’ up to the front door, they are not making a practice run. ~Van Crouch
5. I can, therefore I am. ~Simone Weil
6. I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~Ken Venturi
7. I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. ~Mia Hamm
8. If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney
9. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~Jim Rohn
10. It’s always too early to quit. ~Norman Vincent Peale
11. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. ~Denis Waitley
12. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. ~Jessica Savitch
13. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ~Peter Marshall
14. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~Kyle Chandler
15. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~Walter Elliot
16. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ~Jimmy Dean
17. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert H. Schuller
18. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~Aristotle
19. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ~Eileen Caddy
20. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~Tony Robbins
21. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
22. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
23. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ~Thomas Paine
24. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~Confucius
25. The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ~Baltasar Gracian
Life Quotes
There are a lot of people who wrote things about life. Let me show you what some of them tell us. Some wonderful life quotes just for you. Enjoy!
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch
Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner
Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James
Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker
Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten
Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn