This page is an old list of favorite quotes. Since creating this page about 5 years ago, I have since begun including a weekly "quote of the week" in my classroom newsletter. To see the online archive of all of the quotes I have used, visit the quotes archive from my class website.
To make a friend, you must be a friend.
"While you are in school, make sure you get the information. What you think about it, that’s up to you. What you are going to do with it that will soon be up to you. But while you are there, make sure you get it. In fact, my advice is—Don’t leave school without it!" --John Rohn
"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels." --Hebrews 13:2
"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are." --Herb Cohen
"Maybe Lucy's right. Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest." --Linus, A Charlie Brown Christmas
If you aren't motivated, be disciplined!
"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get what you've
always gotten." --John Maxwell
"Everyone must row with the oars he has." --English proverb
"You are only an attitude away from success." --John Maxwell
When you want something you've never had, you've gotta do something you've
never done!
"If you're going to think anyway, you might as well think BIG!!!" --Donald Trump
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!
"I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness
I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now,
and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." --William Penn
"Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you
expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment."
--Maxwell's Law
Daily affirmation: In everything I do, I stay focused on my purpose.
"Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things
that failures disliked doing and will not do." --John Maxwell
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