“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart."
- Horace Mann
Compassion
"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."
- Horace Mann
Compassion
"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field."
- Horace Mann
Vision
"Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."
- Horace Mann
Time Management
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
- Horace Mann
Education
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination