Book of Quotes

 

• Go with good companions and do not be idle – Don Bosco vol 9.p.25.
  
• It takes comfort in hoping for sunshine to return after the storm – Don Bosco vol 8.p.87.
  
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Chinese proverb.
  
• Give yourself to the practice of virtues while you are young, for to put it off until later is to run the risk of being eternally lost. The virtues you should cultivate most are modesty, humility, obedience and charity – Don Bosco.
  
• Thanks to God, hard work is for me more of a delight and relaxation than a burden – Don Bosco.
  
• Let nothing trouble you - Don Bosco.
  
• Prayers is necessary, but along with it, work. He who does not work should neither eat Don Bosco.
  
• Plays should be amusing and relaxing, but always constructive, moral and short - Don Bosco vol.6.p.647.
  
• Yo9u cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself – Galileo.
  
• To help our neighbour is work of charity and works of charity are always worthy of praise
  
• The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist"- Maria Montessori.
  
• We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, professional, or institutional – Raul G. Hawken.
  
• Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning – John Henry Cardinal.
  
• Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves – Alexander Clark.
  
• A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others – Buddha.
  
• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness – Faith Baldwin.
  
• Good character is more to be praised than out standing talent. Most talents are to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage and determination. – H. Jackson Brown.
  
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  
• Everyone tries to define this thing called character. It's not hard. Character is dong what's right when nobody's looking – J.C Watts.
  
• Don't worry so much about self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. – Laura Schiessinger.
  
• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning – Horace.
  
• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning – Ivy Baker.
  
• In my beginning, is my end – T.S. Eliot.
  
• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning – Louis L'Amour.
  
• You will never win if you never begin.
  
• There is no education like adversity – Benjamin Disraeli.
  
• Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word – Brian Cracey.
  
• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher – John W. Gardner.
  
• Start a boy on the right road, and even in old age he will not leave it – Proverbs22:6.
  
• Remember that knowledge without morals is but the soul's ruination - Don Bosco vol.8.p.90.
  
• A good beginning makes a good end – English Proverb.
  
• The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished – Barbara Colorose.
  
• You manage things; you lead people – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.
  
• Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their colour. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their colour is unthinkable.
  
• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in nation where they will not be judged by their colour of their skin but the content of their character – Marti Luther King, Jr.
  
• Life is a mirror! It will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks unto it – Earnest Holmes.
  
• Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity – Frances Watkins Harper.
  
• The man who removes mountains begins by carrying away small stones – Chinese Proverb.
  
• I am not discouraged, because very wrong attempt discarded is another step forward – Thomas A Edison.
  
• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure – Jack Lemmon.
  
• Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success – Robert Orben.
  
• Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself – Robin Cook.
  
• CRAZY ABOUT YOU if God had a refrigerator, YOUR picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, YOUR photo would be in it. He sends YOU flowers every spring and sunshine every morning. Whenever YOU want to talk, He'll listen, He could live anywhere in the universe and He could choose YOUR heart. What about the Christmas gift he sends YOU in Bethlehem; not mentioning that Friday at Calvary. Face it HE'S CRAZY ABOUT YOU.
  
• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent – Marilyn vos Savant.
  
• When we are no longer able to change a situation… we are challenged to change ourselves – Victor frankl.
  
• Students should particularly cultivate humility. A proud student is stupid and ignorant.
  
• Hasten to do good work because time may run out and leave you defrauded - Don Bosco.
  
• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears – Edgar Allan Poe.
  
• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain – Alan Watts.
  
• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back – Chinese Saying.
  
• Here is a test to find a whether your mission on earth is finished; if you're alive it isn't – Richard Bach.
  
• Be willing to be a beginner every single morning – Meister Eckhart.
  
• Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing – Abraham Lincon.
  
• Today a reader tomorrow a leader – W Fusselman.
  
• More powerful the will to win is the courage to begin.
  
• Peace is made at the council table, or by treatise, but in the hearts of men – Herbert Hoover.
  
• It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through ones own sensitivity worth the suffering of one's fellow human beings – Rollo May.
  
• Deep down we have the qualities of clarity, awareness, sensitivity, warmth and love, but, we have little idea at the outset just how deep and vast those qualities can be.
  
• The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art – Max Beerbohm.
  
• Light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn – Peter Thomson.
  
• The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethnical paths in the maze of possible behavior – Earl Warren.
  
• A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes – Oscar Wilde.
  
• We're sensitive in so many ways. Not only emotionally and spiritually but creatively. The way we play together, it's very sensitive – Dave Navarro.
  
• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? – Cicero.
  
• No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education – John Carolns S.J.
  
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires – William Arthur Ward.
  
• What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? – Bharti Mukhejee.
  
• A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard – Eliphas Levi.
  
• If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss – Bill Gates.
  
• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
  
• The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall – Vince Lombard.
  
• To thy own self be true.
  
• A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
  
• An un examined life is not worth living – Socrates.
  
• Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
  
• Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great & important question, everyone should be serene, slow – pulsed and calm.
  
• The important thing is how much we do with what we know.
  
• All glory comes from daring to begin – Eugine F Ware.
  
• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary – Vidal Sassoon.
  
• There is a little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative - W. Clement Stone.
  
• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference – Tom Brokaw.
  
• Two roads diverge in the wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference – Robert Frost.
  
• To teach is to learn twice – Joseph Joubert.
  
• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching – George Benard Shaw.
  
• Work bread and heaven - Don Bosco.
  
• I say yes to my life, I say yes to my love, I say yes to a one-world-family, I say ayes to a planet at peace, I say yes to all the children… everywhere, I say yes to us, I want my next act to increase the yes in the world – Danaan Jouh Parry.
  
• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. he treats his failures simply as practice shots – Charles Kettering.
  
• The ultimate of the educational goal is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education – John W. Gardener.
  
• God loves the cheerful giver – Bible.
  
• Your education is worth what you are worth.
  
• Any man may make mistakes; none but a fool will persist in it.
  
• Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks – Dottie Walters.
  
• Do good to all and evil to none.
  
• Life offers tow great gifts—time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us – Richard I. WinWord.
  
• Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end – Semisonic.
  
• My country is the world and my religion is to do good – Thomas Paine.
  
• That day is lost on which one has not laughed.
  
• If each of us sweeps in front of our own steps, the whole world would be clean – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  
• Peace is not a product of terror or fear. Peace is not the result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty – Bsp. Oscar Romero.
  
• Non- violence means avoiding not only external physical violence of spirit. You not only refuse t shoot a man, bur you refuse to hate him – Marin Luther King. Jr.
  
• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon – E.M. Forster.
  
• If everyone does his duty certain disorders would not take place - Don Bosco.
  
• Success is a science; if you have the conditions you get the result.
  
• It's not what you've got, it's what you use to make the difference – Zig Ziglar.
  
• Education is the process of the individual mind, getting to it's fullest possible development… it is a long school, which lasts a lifetime – Dr.Zakhir Hussain.
  
• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars – Henry van Dyke.
  
• Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today – Martial.
  
• If you give what you do not need, it isn't giving – Mother Theresa.
  
• He that has pity on the poor lends to the lord.
  
• His happiness lies in your hands.
  
• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time—for we are bound by that—but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time – T.S. Eliot.
  
• Poverty is the worst form of violence – M.K. Gandhi.
  
• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight of the dog – Archie Griffen.
  
• I do not ask how the wounded person fells. I simply become that wounded person – Winston Churchill.
  
• Life is not a spectator spo0rt.
  
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues, but the parent of all others – Cicero Marcus.
  
• Ask not what your team mates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates – Magic Jhonson.
  
• He does not consciously put himself in someone's place. He cannot help finding himself in it – such is his developed sensitivity – Paul Brunton.
  
• It is a wise father that knows his own child – William Shakespeare.
  
• Healthy families are our greatest national resource – Dorothy Curran.
  
• As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live – Pope John Paul II.
  
• Life is gift…accept it, life is an adventure…dare it, life is a mystery …unfold it, life is a game…play it, life is struggle…face it, life is beauty…praise it, life is a puzzle…solve it, life is opportunity…take it, life is sorrowful…experience it, life is song…sing it, life is a goal…achieve it, life is a mission…fulfill it – David McNally.
  
• The pessimistic complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails – John Maxwell.
  
• The beginning is the most important part of the work – Plato.
  
• If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things – Norman Douglas.
  
• The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  
• Hard work always pays great dividends.
  
• It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self- deception.
  
• The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it – Errol Morris.
  
• Do want to out wit the devil? Never let him catch you idle. Work, study and pray and you wait surely overcome your spiritual enemy - Don Bosco.
  
• Gratitude is the heart's memory – French Proverb.
  
• A little rough going is good for us. It makes us tougher - Don Bosco.
  
• For the most part, most people often choose comfort—the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are currently left with the life we currently have.—John –Roger and Peter McWilliams (do it let's get off our buts).
  
• We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here – Mildred D. Taylor.
  
• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Everyday, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals – Earnest Holmes.
  
• Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children – Elizabeth Kubler Ross.
  
• It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference – Paul 'Bear' Bryant.
  
• It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities – J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
  
• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be – Groucho Marx.
  
• We want that education, by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased and the intellect is expanded, by which one can stand on one's own feet – Swami Vivekananda.
  
• All for God and for his glory. In whatever you do, think of the glory of God as your main goal - Don Bosco.
  
• In every conceivable manner the family is a link to our past, a bridge to our future – Alex Haley.
  
• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children – G.K Chesterton.
  
• The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult – Marquise du Deffand.
  
• Each day the world is born a new for him who takes rightly – James Russell Lowell.
  
• In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors – Lyndon B. Jhonson.
  
• Peace is better than war because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons – Croesus.
  
• When you blame others, you give up your power to change – Dr. Robert Anthony.
  
• Children have never been good at listening to elders, but they have not failed to imitate them – James Baldwin.
  
• We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today – Stacia Tauscher.
  
• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? – Robert Anthony.
  
• A child learns what it sees. Teach him all the good you have ever seen.
  
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged with man – Rabindranath Tagore.
  
• A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way of others.
  
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited – Pultarach.
  
• A child can ask questions that a wild man cannot answer.
  
• Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything – Giacomo Leopardi.
  
• A child is a seed, you water it, you care for it the best you can. And then it grows all by itself into a beautiful flower – Suzane Cazin.
  
• A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark – Chinese Proverbs.
  
• Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded – Jess Lair.
  
• It is enough to know that you are young for me to love you - Don Bosco.
  
• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance – Franklin P. Jones.
  
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  
• All is flux; nothing stands still. Nothing endures but change… you could not step twice into the same river… - Heraclitus.
  
• The quieter you become, the more you can hear – Ram Dass.
  
• Live simply that others may simply live – St.Elizabeth Seton.
  
• One who associates with good will go to heaven with them - Don Bosco.
  
• It is better to go before God in patches, than shining in front of the devil - Don Bosco.
  
• As long as we are poor providence will never fail us - Don Bosco.
  
• Live so that when the children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  
• Children are the future handle them with care.
  
• No one is hurt by doing the right thing – Hawaiian Proverb.
  
• Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see – John Whitehead.
  
• Let us make a new rule of life; always try t be a little kinder than is necessary.
  
• The man who makes hard things easy is the educator – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  
• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is far away as one minute ago – Jim Bishop.
  
• For your boys the precious pearl is education that you have already received in abundance or still can receive, be it literary or religious. Not everybody is so fortunate to learn so many useful things that will last a life time - Don Bosco.
  
• It is not enough t begin; one must do one's best t preserve - Don Bosco.
  
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love time is not – Henry van Dyke.
  
• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit – Joe Paterno.
  
• The higher you aim the higher you get!
  
• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it – Stevie Wonders.
  
• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
  
• What nobler profession than to touch the next generation… to see children hold your understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands. In their success, you find your own and so to them you give your all.
  
• Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them – Benjamen Disraeli.