“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

John F. Kennedy

“It’s easy to make a buck, but it is hard to make a difference.”

Tom Brokaw

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong

“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”

Malcom X

“By idolizing those we honor, we do a disservice to both them and to ourselves…We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise.”

Charles V. Willie

“Every passing day is one that is gone forever. Make sure it is one in which you have done something for others, especially those who cannot do for themselves.”

unknown author

“Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don’t be afraid to do something just because it’s impossible.”

Kobi Yamada

“Not to go out and do your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

Steve Prefontaine

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

Marianne Williamson

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

Rosa Parks

“Determine that the thing shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.”

Vine Deloria, Jr.

“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

Michael Jordan

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“I teach because I search.”

Paola Freire

“The wiser world has learned that in youth, even as in age, the Cost of Freedom is less than the Price of Repression.”

W.E.B. Du Bois

“There is no censorship so perfect, so complete as that imposed on the nonreader.”

Jonathan Kozol

“Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.”

Danny Thomas

“We know what we are, but know not

what we may be.”

William Shakespeare

“The mark of an educated mind is to be able to hold a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

Albert Pike

“Education must not just teach work—it must teach life.”

W. E. B. Du Bois

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”

Benjamin Mays

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

Albert Einstein

“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”

Richard Hooker

“The mind determines what’s possible. The heart surpasses it.”

Pilar Coolinta

“Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”

Septima Poinsette Clark

“We see things not as they are but as we are.”

Anais Nin

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”

Frederick Douglass

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington

“If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed downhill.”

unknown author

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”

Danial J. Boorstin

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

Malcolm Forbes

“We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.”

William Arthur Ward

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”

Bruce Barton

“Some people change because they see the light. Some people change because they feel the heat.”

David Thornburg

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

Rabbinical saying

“The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.”

Marian Wright Edelman

“Children may be 20 percent of the population, but they 100 percent of the future.”

David B. Tyack

“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”

Lady Bird Johnson

“Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.”

Swami Chinmayananda

“The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.”

Max Beerbohm

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t worry that the children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.”

Robert Fulghum

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

John Lubbock

“School is a place where students discover, and adults rediscover, the joys, the difficulties, and the satisfactions of learning.”

Roland Barth