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A Select Collection of Teacher Quotes

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I really like the simple and direct messages in these quotes. In fact, these quotes have taught me a great deal and helped me resolve my problems. Maybe they can help you too.

Robert Schuller
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Joshua J. Marine
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Sir Winston Churchill
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Arthur Koestler
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Will Durant
Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

George E. Woodberry
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Ellery Channing
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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