If winning isn’t important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards? TweetShareSharePin ~ Chuck CoonradtTweetShareSharePin
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. ~ Winston ChurchillTweetShareSharePin
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. ~ Mark TwainTweetShareSharePin
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often comes apparent and temporary failure and discouragement just before the big achievement. ~ Florence ShinnTweetShareSharePin
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ~ Warren G. BennisTweetShareSharePin
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~ Henry David ThoreauTweetShareSharePin
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ~ Virginia Crocheron GildersleeveTweetShareSharePin
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupid. Banning books shows you don’t trust your kids to think and you don’t trust yourself to be able to talk to them. ~ Anna QuindlenTweetShareSharePin
A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name. ~ Evan EsarTweetShareSharePin