Author name: inspired

The scars of others should teach us caution.  St. Jerome

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.  Paul Weyrich

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.  Michelle Obama

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.  Charles Stanley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.  Christopher Morley

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.  Larry King

  Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. – Shahrukh Khan

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.  David McCullough

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven’t done my job.  Rick Riordan

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. Euripides

If there is no oil in the lamp the wick is wasted in vain.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau