Before class starts each day, while
the kids are coming in, I write one of these down on the
overhead. You'll find that many students will look forward
to them and will write them down. If I ever forget, they
remind me! Just remember,
math is not the only thing we can teach our students!
- The most powerful
weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch
- Make your mistakes work
for you by learning from them. -- Donald Trump
- If one advances
confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
- Don't worry about
things you can't control.
- Everybody needs some
inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with
some imagination, and use your natural gifts. -- The Kinks
- Most of us have lives
too small for our spirits. -- Studs Terkel
- Don't worry about
moving slowly, worry about standing still. -- Chinese proverb
- Be careful with whom
you associate. Loser's rub off! -- Donald Trump
- I hope to die young at
a very old age.
- The real secret of
success is enthusiasm. -- Walter Chrysler, entrepreneur
- Always give more than
what's expected. -- Donald Trump
- If we did all the
things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves. -- Thomas Edison
- We act as though
comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when
all that we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley, poet
- I'll never reach my
destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til
the river runs dry. -- Garth Brooks
- Bloom where you are
planted.
- For the most part I do the thing
which my own nature drives me to do. -- Albert Einstein
- An activity becomes
creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or
better. – John Updike, writer
- Regret for things we did can be
tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that
is inconsolable. -- Sydney J. Harris, writer
- Do not follow where the path may
lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Money is an article
which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere
except heaven, and as a universal provider for everything
except happiness. -- Wall Street Journal
- Work like you don't need
money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no
one's watching. -- U2
- Listen. Don't just wait
to talk. --
Donald Trump
- Keep away form people
who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great. -- Mark Twain
- Never stop striving,
never stop learning, never stop teaching.
- Do what's right.
- Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage. -- Anaïs Nin
- The greatest mistake you
can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make
one. -- Elbert Hubbard
- Neither you nor the
world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
- The most difficult thing
is to just start the ball rolling. Once it starts,
it's actually more difficult to stop it. -- Butch Lovelace
- Opportunity is missed by most
people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --
Thomas Edison
- Work hard. Someone's
always watching.
-- Donald Trump
- So many times people end up
fixated on doing things rights, that they end up doing nothing
at all. -- The Wright Brothers
- Your imagination is a
preview to life's coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein
- The secret of getting ahead is
getting started.
- I know of nothing more
despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours
of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. --
John D. Rockefeller
- The next time you feel
the urge to procrastinate -- just put it off.
- The only person who is
educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
-- Carl Rogers and Jerome Freiberg, authors of Freedom to
Learn
- I'm a great believer in
luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. --
Thomas Jefferson
- It's not what we do once
in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do
consistently. -- Anthony Robbins, best-selling author
- A professional writer is
an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach
- I've missed 3000 shots.
Twenty-six times the game-winning shot has been trusted to
me, and I've missed. I've lost over 300 games.
I've failed over and over and over again, and that is why
I've succeeded. -- Michael Jordan
- Fall seven times, stand up
eight. -- Japanese proverb
- Don't compromise your
principles.
-- Donald Trump
- Many of life's failures
are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
- Never give in.
Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston
Churchill
- Great people create
great acts of kindness. -- Cervantes
- Many of the things you
can count don't count. Many of the things you can't
count, really count. -- Albert Einstein
- You have not lived a
perfect day, unless you've done something for someone who
will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer
- We make a living by what
we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston
Churchill
- Without deviation,
progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa
- If you don't have a
positive attitude in business and in life, you will never,
ever be successful. -- Donald Trump
- There's nothing in your
life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right
attitude. -- Rick Warren
- Life is it's most
exciting when it's full of possibilities -- Coolmath Karen
- The clearer your vision
of what you seek, the closer you are to finding it.
- If you're not lighting any
candles, don't complain about being in the dark.
- I will never give in
until the day that I die. I'll get myself some
independence, carve out a future with my two bare hands. --
The Alarm
- It ain't what
you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for
sure that ain't so. -- Mark Twain
- If at first you don't
succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness.
-- Patrick Combs
- Apply yourself. Get all
the education you can, but then, by God, do something.
Don't just stand there, make it happen. -- Lee Iacocca, Chairman
Chrysler Motors
- Don't play for safety --
it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole,
writer
- Treat people how you want to be
treated.
-- Donald Trump
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