<p>What is your favorite quote?</p>
<p>Here is mine:</p>
<p>“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by
fools.”</p>
<p>-Thucydides</p>
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<p>~Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>The quote I use most often with my AP students is “We aren’t where we want to be, and we aren’t where we’re going to be, but thank God we aren’t where we used to be.”</p>
<p>Don’t remember where I heard it</p>
<p>Two quotes which have inspired me:</p>
<p>“Your past does not equal your future”</p>
<p>“Whatever the mind can believe and conceive, it can achieve”</p>
<p>There is one Marxist philosopher I like…Groucho:</p>
<p>“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”</p>
<p>“What gets measured, gets done”. </p>
<p>Don’t remember the source…</p>
<p>“Learn from yesterday, Live today, Hope for tomorrow.” Anon</p>
<p>Sorry. Can’t pick just one. </p>
<p>“Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.”
–“Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”</p>
<p>“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
–Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”</p>
<p>“Experience is a harsh teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson after.”<br>
(Saw it in a Bell Telephone print ad back in the sixties)</p>
<p>“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
(source unknown)</p>
<p>“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
(I’m bad at remembering sources…)</p>
<p>“Thanks for what we have…more would be better.” ;)</p>
<p>-my Irish grandmother, said after grace at meals</p>
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<p>If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.</p>
<p>Henry David Thoreau</p>
<p>“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
–Andre Maurois</p>
<p>“Thou may not attain perfection, but neither are Thee excused from making the attempt.” --Quaker proverb</p>
<p>“I will not cheat thee, but I may outsmart thee.”
–Quaker proverb (true–they were sharp businessmen in the day)</p>