INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS
PSYCHIATRIST, AUTHOR
LEARNING

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
LEARNING

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

BUDDHA
GRATITUDE

“Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.”

RODNEY WILLIAMS
HELPING OTHERS

“When we serve we experience, when we experience we teach, when we teach we learn, when we learn our lives are permanently changed, and as our lives are changed we are enriched beyond our wildest dreams.”

JAREN L. DAVIS
MOTIVATION

“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.”

WILL DURANT
WRITER AND HISTORIAN
REACHING OUT

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.”

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL
PHILOSOPHER, POET, CRITIC
CLASS AND GRACE

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”

SAMUEL BUTLER
AUTHOR
LEARNING

“We were taught to respect everyone, especially those who were older and wiser than we were from whom we could learn.”

BENECA WARD
AUTHOR OF "3RD GENERATION COUNTRY, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RAISING CHILDREN WITH GREAT VALUES"
RESPECT

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”

ETHEL BARRYMORE
ACADEMY-AWARD WINNING ACTRESS
LOVE

“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. ”

MARY CATHERINE BATESON
WRITER, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
LEARNING

“When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being “better,” and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”

LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
EDITOR, WRITER
TRUST

“When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've detected that is threatening your current model of the world...pay attention. You are about to learn something.”

WILLIAM H. DRURY, JR.
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR
LEARNING

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

MAHATMA GANDHI
INDIAN POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL LEADER
LEARNING

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
POET, ESSAYIST, LEXICOGRAPHER
HARD WORK

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
MINISTER, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
UNITY

“Life's a Dance You Learn As You Go!”

JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY
SINGER, SONGWRITER
LEARNING

“By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.”

LATIN PROVERB
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

“They learn tolerance for others' faults through our tolerance of their own.”

CATHY RIDNER TEMPELSMAN
US JOURNALIST
FORGIVENESS

“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
U.S. FIRST LADY, DIPLOMAT, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
COMPROMISE

“Even the wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

GEORGE SANTAYANA
PHILOSOPHER, POET, ESSAYIST, NOVELIST
LEARNING

“You have two ears and two eyes and only one mouth. Because you will learn twice as much as what you will ever have to say.”

JEFFREY SHULTZ
SCIENCE TEACHER
LEARNING

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.”

DENNIS WAITLEY
WRITER
LEARNING

“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ”

EUGENE S. WILSON
DEAN OF ADMISSIONS AT AMHERST COLLEGE
PERSISTENCE

“Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.”

DOGEN ZENJI
BUDDHIST MONK, PHILOSOPHER
CONFIDENCE

“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

ARISTOPHANES
DRAMATIST
LEARNING

“We cannot wait for the storm to pass over - we must learn to dance in the rain.”

UNKNOWN
LIVE LIFE

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ”

MALCOLM GLADWELL
AUTHOR
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
PREACHER, AUTHOR
PEACE

“The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be...Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”

WILFERD A. PETERSON
AUTHOR, BUSINESSMAN
STRENGTH