Albert Einstein

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Robert Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-- Robert Kennedy

Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Mark Twain

Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- Chanakya

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. 
— Harper Lee

Anon.

If you give in today, you will be twice as likely to give in tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anon.

He who waits to do a great deal of good all at once, will never do anything.”

Anonymous

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of it.

Anonymous

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

-- Plutarch

Charlotte Bronte

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.  The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.”

--Charlotte Bronte

Gordon B. Hinckley

“A truly educated man never ceases to learn.”

--Gordon B. Hinckley

Jane Austen

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

--Jane Austen

Jeanne DuPrau

“...look at all the remarkable things [they] had done! It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”

--Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau

“I don’t think there’s such a thing as an easy life.There’s always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can’t control lurking out at the edges --- storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life, and I think we have one here.”

-- Jeanne DuPrau

Anonymous

“Life is a song... and you get to make up the melody.”

Thomas S. Monson

"We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude."

—Thomas S. Monson

Wayne Dyer

“True nobility is not about being better than anyone else-- it’s about being better than you used to be.” 
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

Anonymous

“Learning from success is important, but learning from failure is vital to succeeding.”

Jim Rohn

“Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.” 

– Jim Rohn

Anonymous

“Create your own destiny. If you don’t, someone else will.”

Anonymous

“Success is the worst teacher.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Anonymous

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…. One step at a time.”

--Anon.

Anonymous

“It’s not the cards you’re dealt-- it’s how you play the game.”

--Anon.

Colin R. Davis

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” 
--Colin R. Davis

Benjamin Franklin

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” 
--Benjamin Franklin

Ralph Nader

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

-- Ralph Nader

Winston Churchill

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” 
--Winston Churchill

Maya Angelou

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”  

--Maya Angelou

Napoleon Hill

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” 
--Napoleon Hill

Les Brown

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” 

--Les Brown

Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
-- Robert T. Kiyosaki

Lloyd Alexander

“Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"

"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be”

― Lloyd Alexander

Anonymous

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. a pessimist fears that's true.
--Anon.

Publius Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus

Lloyd Alexander

“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

—Ralph Nader

Lloyd Alexander

“You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Peter Drucker

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. 

—Peter Drucker

Lloyd Alexander

“Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Warren Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
—Warren Bennis

Lloyd Alexander

“For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Anonymous

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
--Anonymous

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. 

 ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Italian Proverb

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. 

 ~Italian proverb

John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~John Locke

Mary Anne Radmacher

“Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” 
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Thomas S. Monson

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey and share our love with friends and family. One day, each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is most important. 
--President Thomas S. Monson

Gary Ryan Blair

My observation over time is that success is 10% vision — or what some might call “goal clarity” — and 90% execution.
--Gary Ryan Blair

Alison Moore Smith

Unless you execute properly and remain focused until completion, the goal — and that means any goal — is absolutely irrelevant.
--Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith

People hate to say no to your face, but have no problem at all saying no behind your back.
--Alison Moore Smith

Betty Pearson

[Children] don't need to be entertained by [their parents]. In fact, it is harmful for their development to be constantly spoon-fed and entertained. In order to discover their talents and interests, they must search within themselves, and they can't do this if they are constantly being bombarded with stimuli. Avoid the temptation to plug in an electronic game or video to entertain them. There are times when watching videos are helpful and educational, but don't use the TV to eliminate boredom.

--Betty Pearson

Joyce Kinmont

Most parents who home school do so because they want something better for their children than what is usually meant by the real world. Actually, the real world encompasses a lot of places and a lot of lifestyles. None of us can be comfortable in all places. The skid row alcoholic, for example, would be just as uncomfortable in a temple as a prophet would be in a bar. Some people consider it a mark of maturity for their children to slip easily into jr. high; other parents do not want their children to fit into that atmosphere, ever. Parents must decide which corner of the real world they want their children to be comfortable in and then prepare them for that life. If they are to be most comfortable in sacred homes and temples, they need to grow up in holy places.
--Joyce Kinmont

Joyce Kinmont

The idea that children must spend great quantities of time in same-age groups is a theory of man and has no basis in fact or scripture. Actually, large groups of undirected children tend to become trivia-oriented, mean-spirited and competitive. Home schooled children are not isolated; they merely have their socializing within the family and within the social groups chosen by the family.
--Joyce Kinmont

Joyce Kinmont

What is school? At best it is life itself. At worst, it is an institutionalized imitation of life. The more closely the institution comes to duplicating life outside the institution, the better the school. So home school includes all of life, and in everyone's life, young or old, time should be set aside every day for scripture study, academic pursuits, developing talents, and for recreation. 
--Joyce Kinmont

William Butler Yeats

"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats

Norma Luce

A man will the price if he wants the prize.
--Norma Luce

Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin

Ken Parker

It is important to understand that it is religion that bring relevancy to education. How we interpret knowledge founded upon our religious beliefs. Children, as well as adults, want to know WHY things are the way they are. "Why" questions surface all the time in teaching and learning settings. Public and even private schools are limited in how they can answer fundamental "why" questions that will surface from every subject, from mathematics to history, from English to geography. How can children ever understand truth without the basis of religion?

Of all the wonderful aspects of home schooling. I feel that the greatest blessing lies in our opportunity to fully answer "why" questions. When a child asks a "why" question, entirely new areas of learning open to view, and new dimensions of knowledge are explored. since these new dimensions relate to the original subject, "relevancy" occurs (it makes sense, it fits, it's interesting, it's understood), or, in other words, learning takes place, correct knowledge is transferred.

But the home school opportunity of answering "why" questions goes much deeper. "Why" questions eventually lead to discussions about our basic beliefs, our value system, our religious convictions. Ultimately, it is religion that brings relevancy to education. Since education influences what we do and think, and doing and thinking is what life is made of, it follows that religion is what brings relevancy to life.

--Ken Parker

Joyce Kinmont

"I see our children as young tender plants put into a hot house, given expert attention and care by a florist, until the plant is ready to be exposed to the wind, rain, and hail."
--Joyce Kinmont

Anonymous

"We rise to the level of our coaches."
--Anonymous

Og Mandino

If I have no other qualities I can succeed with love alone. Without it I will fail though I posess all the knowledge and skills of the world. I will greet this day with love in my heart.
--Og Mandino

Lloyd Alexander

“Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Kevin Hall

The pain is soon forgotten, but the memory of the victory lives on forever.
--Kevin Hall

Lloyd Alexander

“Life's a forge -

Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll

be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and

you'll scarce know what's happening to

you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's

worthless till it is shaped and

tempered. More labor than luck. Face

the pounding, don't fear the proving;

and you'll stand well against any

hammer and anvil.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a common farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.”

-- Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.” 

--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee.”

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“There's no great loss without some small gain.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ezra Taft Benson

“Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps, and through his atonement, we can gain the greatest gift of all—eternal life—which is that kind of life lived by the great Eternal One—our Father in heaven.”

-- President Ezra Taft Benson

William Shakespeare

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.”

--William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Jeff Olson

“Whether we’re aware of it or not, relationships are reduced to transactions where we use the currency of meeting expectations to buy acceptance and approval.”

-- Jeff Olson

Maria Olson

“History is made one story at a time. What will your story be?”

--Maria Olson

Albert Schweitzer

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

--Albert Schweitzer

George Macdonald

It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved.

-- George Macdonald

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

--Dwight David Eisenhower

Gandhi

We must become the change we seek in the world.

--Gandhi

Victor Hugo

“There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

--Victor Hugo

Helen Keller

''When one door of happiness closes another opens, but often we look so long  at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.''

-Helen Keller

Anonymous

“Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their back.

-- Anonymous

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."                      

--  F. Scott Fitzgerald

L.M. Montgomery

“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“True friends are always together in spirit.”

-- L. M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

― L.M. Montgomery

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett