Please find listed below an ever growing list of my favourite quotes, that I hope you will enjoy browsing through and using them on your creative projects too!
A kind and compassionate act is often it's own reward - William John Bennett
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face - Edward P. Morgan
Growth is the only evidence of life - John Henry
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live - John Berry
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them - Aristotle
The beautiful things about learning is that no one can take it away from you - B.B. King
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre - Gail Godwin
The course of life is unpredictable . . . no one can write his autobiography in advance - Abraham Joshua Heschel
All I really need to know . . . I learned at Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themeselves throughout their lives - Robert Maynard Hutchins
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave - Calvin Coolidge
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every adult needs a child to teach, it's the way adults learn - Frank Clark
All me by nature desire knowledge - Aristotle
Imagination is the beginning of creation - George Bernard Shaw
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success - Swami Sivandanda
In teaching others we teach ourselves - Proverb
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the striggle to become what we want to be - Anne Byrhe
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire - William Butler Yeats
Laughter is the best medicine
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say - Sholem Asch
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble - Plautus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes
Wonder implies the desire to learn - Aristotle
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen - Hugh Prather
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence - Unknown
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well - John W. Gardner
Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence - Abigail Adams
Added November 12th, 2007
The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development - Jim Rohn
You cannot speak that which you do not know.
You cannot share that which you do not feel.
You cannot translate that which you do not have.
And you cannot give that which you do not possess.
To give it and share it, and for it to be effective you first need to have it.
Good communication starts with good preparation.
- Jim Rohn