QUOTES
& STORIES
"You
are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if
you forget the errand." -- Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US.
"Dream
as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die tomorrow!"
"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was
the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
-John F. Kennedy
"In
evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and
energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill
you". Warren Buffett
Social justice for educational administrators means
pursuing policies, practices, and politics (educational, social, and economic)
that enhance the lifetime opportunities for all children, particularly those
children who have been historically marginalized.” (p. 279)
Karpinski
& Lugg (2006). Social
Justice and Educational Administration: Mutually Exclusive? Journal of
Educational Administration, 44(3), 278-292.
Two
Wolves
An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his
grandchildren about life. He said to them... A fight is going on inside
me... it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents
fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt,
resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The
other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and
faith. This same fight is going on inside you and every other person,
too. They thought about this for a minute, and then one child asked
his grandfather...Which wolf will win? The old
Cherokee simply replied... The one you feed.
"The ultimate measure of a person is not where
they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times
of challenge."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Cowardice
asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks, is it polite?
Vanity asks, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it
right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, nor polite, nor popular -- but one must take it because it's
right." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is to high and we miss it, but that it is
too low and we reach it."
-Michelangelo
Moral
cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country
as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy
way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral
character.
Margaret Chase Smith
Try
not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The
best index of a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him
any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail van Buren
It's
kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney
Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln
Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
"Thou shalt not be a
victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all,
thou shalt not be a bystander."
-
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
Contemplate yourself being surrounded by the
circumstances you wish to produce.
Breault (2003) “when a nation sets a higher
standard of freedom for the world, it must also live by a stricter definition
of oppression”
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you
think you're not.
-Unknown
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were
beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn
later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing
, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress
while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD66 (attributed
to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later
committed suicide)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance
even less. -
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he
already knows. -Epictetus
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the
foot? -Gloria Steinem
If you have always done it that way, it is probably
wrong. -Charles Kettering
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while
the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no
longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer
The important thing is this: To be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -Charles Dubois
The best way to predict the future is to invent
it. -Alan King
Leadership is a combination of strategy and
character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Everything is possible! The impossible only
takes longer!"
"People are just as happy as they make up their
minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln