Food for Thought for Students

I have a section of the bulletin board in my study aids library where I post a quote for the students to consider.  Having collected quotes for several years now, I thought some of them might be of use in your work with students.  Here are the ones that I use most often:

• If you study to remember, you will forget; but, if you study to understand, you will remember.  Unknown
• You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.  Irish Proverb
• Borrowed brains have no value.  Yiddish Proverb
• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought with ardor and attended to with diligence.  Abigail Adams
• Every step you take is a step away from where you used to be.  Brian Chargualaf
• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving...and that's your own self.  Aldous Huxley
• You will never find time for anything.  If you want time, you must make it.  Charles Buxton
• It's not the time you put in, but what you put in the time.  Burg's Philosophy
• Dost thou love life?  Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.  Benjamin Franklin
• Yesterday is a cancelled check.  Tomorrow is a promissory note.  Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.  Kim Lyons
• The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.  Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.  Abraham Lincoln
• If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand.  You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.  Brian Koslow
• Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You can eat an elephant one bite at a time.  Chinese Proverb
• To succeed, we must first believe that we can.  Michael Korda
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  Thomas A. Edison
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.  Confucius
• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.  George Soros
• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.  John Burroughs
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  Thomas A. Edison
• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  Eleanor Roosevelt
• Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.  Langston Hughes
• Stress is an untransformed opportunity for empowerment.  Doc Childre and Howard Martin
• It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.  Hans Selye
• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.  John Wanamaker
• Laugh every day.  It is like inner jogging.  Unknown

If you have favorite quotes that you use with your students, please share them with me!  (Amy Jarmon)