INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
Charles Swindoll
PARENTING
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”
Pete Seeger
EDUCATION
“True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.”
David O. McKay
EDUCATION
“Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
APPRECIATING NATURE
“I have never been a millionaire. But I have enjoyed a great meal, a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend, a hug from a child, a cup of soup, a kiss behind the ear. There are plenty of life’s tiny delights for all of us.”
Jack Anthony
APPRECIATION
“Appreciation...acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”
Alan Cohen
APPRECIATION
“The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder.”
Abraham Maslow
APPRECIATION
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Benjamin Disraeli
APPRECIATION
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
Elizabeth Bibesco
HUMILITY
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
Sir William Osler
HUMILITY
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
Bill Bradley
PERSISTENCE
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Hal Borland
PERSISTENCE
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Abigail Adams
LEARNING
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
Richard Branson
LEARNING
“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery.”
Robin Sharma
LEARNING
“It is your response to winning and losing that makes you a winner or a loser. ”
Harry Sheehy
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Victory is in the quality of the competition, not just the final score.”
Mike Marshall
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.”
Mia Hamm
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
Mike Singletary
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.
SPORTSMANSHIP
“Don't be satisfied with stories of how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
CONFIDENCE
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother Teresa
