Quotes - some of my favorites

I have had some requests for a list of the different quotes I use in class, presentations and PPT. Here is a list of some of my favorites:

(If you have any you like, I would love to see them)

On Learning:

• “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
• “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.” ― Parker J. Palmer
• "The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer."

On Living:

• Thoughts become words. Words become action. Actions become character.  The mindset you choose will dictate the life you lead.
• Thoughts become words. Words become action. Actions become character.  The mindset you choose will dictate the life you lead.
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
• when the student is able to transfer what you shared into their world, and build upon it on their own initiative; then you have taught!
• “Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.” Psalm 144:1
• “Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves” Bear Grylls
• “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” Churchill
• “Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action” Bear Grylls
• “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and preserved body, but rather to skid in broad-side, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming. ‘Wow… what a ride.’”

On being a Warrior:

• “…the warrior who has trained and practiced, pushing his muscles and his mind to the limit over and over again, preparing for jus this moment in time, this Warrior has never been so alive. Of all the places in the world, at this exact moment in time, he is precisely where he belongs – facing evil in battle. He IS a Warrior in battle, and at that moment his sole purpose for existing is to close with evil and crush it.”  Gary Stoney
• “To be a Warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.” Albert Einstein
• “Know thyself, know thy enemy.” Sun Tzu
• “You either perform under pressure or you fail, and we are not in the business of failing”
• “A warrior is one who possesses high moral standards and holds to high principles. He is willing to live by them, stand for them. Spend himself in them, and, if necessary, die for them”
• “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” Sun Tzu
• “The mental is to the physical, as three is to one.”
        
• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910
• ”…down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.  He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and yet an unusual man, He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of Honor – by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.” Raymond Chandler
• “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” Sir Winston Churchill
• “If ya stay ready, ya ain’t got to get ready.” Suga Free
• “True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.” Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
• “This is the law: The only purpose of fighting is to win; there is no possible victory in defense; the sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either; the next weapon is the brain.  All else is supplemental.” From The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck
• “Survival is the byproduct of winning
• “To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in the exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves one or the other.” Carlos Castandea
• “One mind, any weapon.” Hunter Armstrong
• “Only a predator can hunt a predator. We however, are predators under the authority of the law.” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
• "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - General George Washington

·         "I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me." - Archilocus, 650 B.C

·         "Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. - Deng Ming-Dao

     

• "The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle." - Motto of Navy Seals
• “It's basic dog psychology. If you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. Yet if you project weakness, you draw aggression. That's how people get hurt. You see... Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears... To come true.”
• “You live your life by a code, it’s your shoreline, it’s what guides you home.  And trust me, you’re always trying to get home.”
• “No one’s stronger than a man who can harness his emotions and his past.Use it as motivation to write the most important letter of your life.”

Tecumseh

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

 When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home”