inspiring quotes for students

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni


Property is the pivot of civilization. ~Leon Samson


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown


We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ~Vince Lombardi


It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. ~George Bernard Shaw, 1931


Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~Margaret Mead


Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps


My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. ~From the movie Ed TV


The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates


The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. ~Will Smith


Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda


Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano


Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Benjamin Franklin: "I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight, to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both."


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988


A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White


Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934