The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- Topic: Example, Leadership
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
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When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.
