Since last August, we’ve been using the TIF Facebook page as a place to share some of our favorite words of wisdom. We’ve borrowed quotations from Maya Angelou, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Suess, and plenty more. Here is a collection of 20 quotations that have appeared on our Facebook page. Soak them in, become inspired, and then share this post with some friends so they can be inspired, too.
”Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” — Abigail Adams
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” — Maya Angelou
“A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has.” — Anonymous
”Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” — G. K. Chesterton
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein
”Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they’re given the opportunity to pursue that…[then] their abilities will be reinforced and…we’ll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have….” — Bill Gates
”Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” — Aldous Huxley
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” — Nelson Mandela
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life isn’t what you want it to be, it’s what you make it become.” — Anthony Ryan
“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.” — Patricia Sampson
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.” — John Wooden
