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Maya Angelou Quotes

An internationally known and respected writer, poet and educator, Maya Angelou has authored such well-known titles as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Gather Together in My Name.” She has produced and starred in several plays and authored the musical score and screenplay for the film Georgia, Georgia. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Golden Eagle Award. Here are some of her famous motivational quotes to inspire you today.

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Maya Angelou Quotes

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I can be changed by what happens to me. but I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

Motivational Quotes From Dalai Lama

Motivational and inspirational quotes from wise man Dalai Lama, He simply amazes me with his wisdom and his teaching about peace and contentedness. Dalai Lama is one of wisest leader who inspires many of us to live better.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama

We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are “news”; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored. – Dalai Lama

I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.
There is not much hurry. -Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- Dalai Lama

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana. – Dalai Lama

If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. – Dalai Lama

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. – Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.~ Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
~ Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
~ Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~ Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
~ Dalai Lama

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. – Dalai Lama

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of “I,” and we´re all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering. -Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people’s affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.
~ Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
~ Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling. The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness. -Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
~ Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~ Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~ Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~ Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. -Dalai Lama

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Wisdom Quotes From Mother Teresa

Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by very inspirational Lady herself, Mother Teresa!

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
~ Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~ Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
~ Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
~ Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~ Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
~ Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
~ Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
~ Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~ Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~ Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
~ Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
~ Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
~ Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
~ Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
~ Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~ Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
~ Mother Teresa

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Teacher Quotes: Motivational Quotes about Educators

Teaching is one of noblest profession and once upon a time, teacher were looked upon as a second to god for some students. While our generation have changed that outlook but there are great teachers who still can make a huge difference in a child’s life.

Treat the students the way you would want to be treated.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child. – Kathy Davis –

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure- Emma Golmam

Don’t set your wit against a child- Johnathan Swift

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand- Author unknown

A A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. – Author unknown

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. – Horace Mann

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. – Confucius

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. – Vernon Law

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – Anonymous

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. – M. Russell Ballard

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. – Carl Rogers

All learning begins with the simple phrase, “I don’t know”. -Unknown

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel. – Unknow

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. ~ Mother Teresa

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.- -Patricia Clafford

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. — George Orwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.–Alvin Toffler

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.’ — Robert Hutchins

It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted that really counts. – Unknown

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
– Anonymous

One father is worth 100 schoolmasters. – George Herbert

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.- Latin Proverb

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. -Unknown

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Unknown

To teach is to learn twice.- Joseph Joubert

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. ~Donald D. Quinn

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy

Challenge of the day : Find something good in everyone. – Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.- Sidney Sugarman

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble – Mark Twain

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

Teacher : The child’s third parent. – Hyman Berston

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Ward

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” ~Dan Rather

I touch the future. I teach. – Christa McAuliffe.

To teach is to touch lives forever. – Anonymous

Good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

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Knowledge Quotes: Wisdom Quotes About Knowledge

Without knowledge we can achieve anything, everything can be lost such as money, career, house but what you have learned in your mind, always stays with you! Knowledge is power.

Lack of knowledge… that is the problem. –W. Edwards Deming

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -David Hume

You should not ask questions without knowledge. –W. Edwards Deming

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. -Oswald Chambers

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
–Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. -Abigail Adams

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -Thomas Sowell

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. -Bertolt Brecht

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
-Hippocrates

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. –Wilbur Wright;

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learning. –Scott Adams

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.-Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.-Kofi Annan

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. –Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. -Zhuangzi

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. –William Penn

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.-William Penn

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I’m looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. -Talib Kweli

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
-Arthur Conan Doyle

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. -Herschel Walker

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. –Orison Swett Marden

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. -Chanakya

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.-James A. Baldwin

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. -Hubert H. Humphrey

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. -Robert Mugabe

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. -Keanu Reeves

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. -Josh Billings

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