People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned — it cannot be self-respect if it’s not earned — and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Charles Alan Murray
Tag: Quote of the Day
09OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles Alan Murray
08OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.
Charles Alan Murray
07OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities
John Lothrop Motley
06OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound,
Young voices sing;
Wreathe every door with snow-white garlands round,
For lo! ’tis Spring!
Winter has passed with its sad funeral train,
And hope revives again.
Sir Lewis Morris
05OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
The wind that sighs before the dawn
Chases the gloom of night,
The curtains of the East are drawn,
And suddenly—’tis light.
Sir Lewis Morris
04OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success.
Sir Lewis Morris
03OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I ‘ll protect it now.
George Pope Morris
02OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
01OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.
John Morley