Powerful+Quotes

We may want to use some of these in staff dev.:

media type="custom" key="2017416" media type="custom" key="2081257" – //Jalaluddin Rumi//
 * Out beyond the idea of right thinking and wrong thinking is a field. . . . I will meet you there. . ..

In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists. – //Eric Hoffer//

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. – //Marian Wright Edelman//

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. – //Abraham Lincoln//

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. – //Benjamin Mays//

To create real change in this world, you have to have a vision, and you have to have enormous perseverance. It's the same principle that applies in any entrepreneurial adventure: You've got to be too stupid to quit. – //Marguerite Sallee (CEO, Frontline Group)//

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – //Johann Wolfgang von Goethe//

The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness. – //Orison Swett Marden//

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – //Sir William Bragg//

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – //Alvin Toffler//

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything...or nothing. – //Lady Nancy Astor//

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. – //Albert Einstein//

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – //Robert F. Kennedy//

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. – //Ralph Marston//

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – //Chinese proverb//

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. – //Bob Perelman//

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. – //Tom Landry//

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. – //Thomas Edison//

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this. You haven't. – //Thomas Edison//

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. – //Albert Einstein//

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – //Seneca// It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races. – //Mark Twain//

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. – //Gen. George S. Patton//

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. – //Wayne Gretzky//

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. – //W.B. Yeats//

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead. – //Phillip Schlechty//

Students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control. – //Phillip Schlechty//

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – //Charles Kettering//

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened? – //Ann Landers//

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – //George Bernard Shaw//

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. – //Richard Hooker//

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. – //G.K. Chesterton//

There is no way to make people like change. You can only make them feel less threatened by it. – //Frederick Hayes//

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. – //George Kettering//

There is nothing permanent except change. – //Greek proverb//

Times change and we change with them. – //Latin proverb//

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – //Leo Tolstoy//

If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we are headed. – //Chinese proverb//

Self-initiated learning, once begun, develops its own momentum. – //Ray Hartjen//

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. – //Pema Chodron, from her book, When Things Fall Apart//

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – //John Dewey//

A mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. – //Oliver Wendell Holmes//

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. – //Theodore Roosevelt//

Even when I was young I suspected that much might be done in a better way. – //Henry Ford, Sr.//

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. – //Margaret Mead//

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. – //Turkish proverb//

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. – //Peter F. Drucker//

Reform must come from within, not from without. – //James Gibbons// The time is always right to do what is right. – //Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.//

Actually, the good news is that great minds don't always think alike. – //Goldman Sachs advertisement in the Wall St. Journal, January 2000//

In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing. – //Will Rogers//

We can talk or dream about the glorious schools of the future or we can create them. – //Marilyn Ferguson//

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. – //Will Rogers//

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – //Albert Einstein//

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. – //Edward R. Murrow//

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – //John A. Shedd//

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. – //Charles F. Kettering//

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – //Lyndon B. Johnson//

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. – //Conrad Hilton// Discoveries are ofte n made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. – //Frank Tyger//

When one teaches, two learn. – //Robert Half//

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. – //Benjamin Franklin// ||