classroom quotes

Quotations That Focus On Relationships

• In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless - Mother Teresa

• I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody. -Benjamin Franklin

• Don't mind criticism. If it's untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair, keep from irritation; if it's ignorant, smile; if it's justified, learn from it.

• Patting a fellow on his back is the best way to get a chip off his shoulder.

• He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

• Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

• Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

• If you are not afraid to face the music, you may someday be the leader of the band.

• One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer

• Life is like a jewel - the number of facets determines its sparkle.

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do in inconceivabe. -Joseph Addison

• One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.

• It is easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend a heart those words have broken.

• For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -Rainer Maria Rilke

• Anger does as much damage to the vessel it is poured from as it does to anything it is poured upon.

• The ones you should try to get even with are the ones who have helped you.

• Have in your mind a word of cheer for all who come your way, and they will bless you, too, in turn, and wish you "Happy day!" -Frank B. Whitney

• He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Abraham Lincoln

• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. -Margaret Fuller

• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson

• Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold

• To thine ownself to be true and it must follow as the night the day, you cannot then be false to any man. -Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Men's faces are easy to know, not their hearts. -Shakespeare's Macbeth

• Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. -Socrates

• Men attract not that which they want, but that which they are. -James Allen

• Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. -Voltaire

• Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it: Never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say. "I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day." - Charles Kingsley

• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. -Robert Browning

• Every pot must sit on its own bottom. -Benjamin Franklin

• We must all live together as brothers or perish alone as fools. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• If you live with a lame man, you learn to limp. -Plutarch

• Never judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins. -Native American proverb

• Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. -Mark Twain

• We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves. -Henry David Thoreau

• I don't agree with a word you way, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire

• Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right. Bible

• He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin

• Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. -Abraham Lincoln

• Go put your creed into your deed. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• To be or not to be, that is the question. -Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Waste not fresh tears over old grief. -Euripides

• The real fault is to have faults and not try to mend them. -Confucius

• I am the captain of my fate; I am the master of my soul. -William Earnest Henley

• Life maroons the hesitant, but inspires the brave. -Thomas Dooley

• If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm. -African proverb

• Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger end up inside. -John F. Kennedy

• No man can use his brain to think for another. -Ayn Rand

• If you can't hold children in your arms, at least hold them in your heart. -Mother Clara Hale

• You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from behind.

• Men should be judged, not by the tint of their skin, the gods the serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, love or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. -Adela Florence Cory Nicolson

• If one will not, two cannot quarrel. -Thomas Fuller

• Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. -Lady Mary Montague

• Tart words make no friends, a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -Benjamin Franklin

• I will strive to live With love and care, Upon the level, By the square. - on Baal Bridge, Limerick, Ireland, 1517

• There are no rules to friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. -William Hazlitt

• To preserve a friend, three things are necessary: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. -Italian proverb

• Being all fashioned to the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just. -Henry Wadwsworth Longfellow