Workshop Quotes

  • “Goals are dreams with deadlines”: Diana Hunt
  • “Without discipline, there is no life at all”: Katherine Hepburn
  • “It is only with the heart that one can see what is invisible to the eye”: Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • “The best vision is insight”: Malcolm Forbes
  • “The soul would have no rainbow has the eyes no tears”: John Vance Cheney
  • “Imagination is the true magic carpet”: Norman Vincent Peale
  • “The man who has no imagination has no wings”: Muhammad Ali
  • “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past”: Thomas Jefferson
  • “Establishing goals is alright if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours”: Doug Larson
  • “We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship”: General Omar Bradley
  • “There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience”: French Proverb
  • “The more a man knows, the more he forgives”: Catherine the Great
  • “The day a child realizes that adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise”: Alden Nowlan
  • “Maturity means re-acquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play”: Frederick Nietzsche
  • “Adults are obsolete children”: Dr. Seuss
  • “A grownup is a child with layers on”: Woody Harrelson
  • “A baby is born with a need to be loved and never grows out of it”: Frank Clark
  • “The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child”: John Houldsworth
  • “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up”: Pablo Picasso
  • “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher awakens your own expectations”: Patricia Neal
  • “An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions”: Louis Dudeck
  • “A great teacher never strives to explain his vision; he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself”: Reverend Inman
  • “To teach is to learn twice”: Joseph Joubert
  • “A good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy”: Barbara Bush
  • “Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes itself”: Robin Cook
  • “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”: William Butler Yates
  • “Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated”: Robert Savage
  • “What we learn with pleasure we never forget”: Alfred Mercier
  • “Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other”: Laurence Peter
  • “Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest”: Karen Savage
  • “Few things are more satisfying than seeing our children have teenagers of their own”: Doug Larson
  • “I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline”: Vince Lombardi
  • “We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves”: Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability”: Roy L. Smith
  • “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”: Anthony Brandt
  • “Character is much better kept than recovered”: Thomas Paine
  • “Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If he is loved, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child”: Bette Davis
  • “The giving of love is an education itself”: Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves”: Barnard Baruch
  • “The only way to have a friend is to be one”: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The only discipline that lasts is self discipline”: Bum Phillips
  • “The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children”: Danny Kaye
  • “Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline”: Edwin Whipple
  • “If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders”: Abigail Van Buren
  • “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty”: Frank Herbert
  • “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find what they like and then advise them to do it”: Harry Truman
  • “He who lives without discipline dies without honor”: Icelandic Proverb
  • “The time is always right to do what is right”: Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all”: George Washington
  • “You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late”: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty”: John Steinbeck
  • “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read”: Mark Twain
  • “Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly”: Julie Andrews
  • “If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble”: Bob Hope
  • “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen”: Lee Iacocca
  • “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues”: Abraham Lincoln
  • “The way I see it, you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”: Dolly Parton
  • “There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work”: Robert De Niro
  • “We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failing of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children”: John Sculley
  • “Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back”: W. K. Hope
  • “The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where one grew before”: Elbert Hubbard
  • “It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives”: Clint Eastwood
  • “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one”: Malcolm Forbes
  • “If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself...self discipline”: Harry S. Truman
  • “Education is what happens to the other person, not what comes out of the mouth of the educator”: Miles Horton
  • “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through”: Zig Ziglar
  • “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery”: Pablo Casals
  • “With self-discipline, most anything is possible”: Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another”: G. K. Chesterton