On this page, you will find a selection of inspiriational quotes or stories that I like, and may they apply to the deaf and education. The page will be updated as I come across new ones that provoke thoughts or warm my heart — making me think, smile, laugh, or cry. The newest quotes or stories will be at the top.
Quotes by Who?
Blue: Deaf
Pinkish Purple: Hearing
You are welcome to contribute to this page if you have a story, an article, or an insight that you think would fit.
My very OWN quote:
"Pregnancy is much like an athletic event. Giving birth is the finish line. " -Teri Sentelle
Last Update: 10/07/07
Quotes:
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear." -Glenn Clark
"Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." - Horace (My Fav!)
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed." -Bernard M. Baruch from Big Wisdom (Little Book)
"Let's do it or die!" -Unknown (one of my favorite quotes)
"The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -Helen Keller
"Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand." - C.N. Bovee
"What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful." -Unknown
"Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" -Thich Nhat Hanh
"I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson
“We learn not in the school, but in life”. ~Seneca~ (Contributed by LMS)
"The Light Within can only be heard in silence." –Quaker philosophy (Contributed by Dianrez)
"Today is tomorrow's yesterday. Make it count." -Dustin Williams (one of my former CSDR students)
"Care to dare, and dare to care." -Roz Rosen
“Let us not be stopped by that which divides us but look for that which unites us." -Unknown (Contributed by Barb DiGi)
“Life ain’t easy, but ain’t hard too!” -Amy Cohen Efron
“Live, laugh, and learn to let it go…” -Amy Cohen Efron
"If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!" - Helen Keller
“People don’t think for themselves anymore- They just Google it up” -Robert F. Walker
"As long as there are deaf people on earth there will be signing." -George Veditz
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming." -Goethe
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." -Epicurus
"Deaf people can do anything, but hear." -I. Jordan King (Do not start any flaming war, thanks)
"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." -Charles M. Schultz
"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it." -Jonathan Winters (My Fav!)
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