The last article summary of this school year is 37
Wise Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed in Life.
I like to end the school year with something that we can all
reflect on in the summer.
My entire career has been in education and consequently summer
break has always been a part of my life.
If you’re like me, as I have aged summer seems much shorter. I
guess as our responsibilities and duties grow, we have less time to laze idly.
Yet even as we all age, I hope summer continues to have a special
pace and feel for you.
Our students literally do grow over the summer. With more time to
sleep, their bodies have more time to grow in June, July, and early August than
during the rest of the year.
I like to use the more relaxed pace of summer for both personal
and professional reflection. I always make sure to capture times to think about
what I’ve done over the past year, what went right, what went wrong, and what
perhaps I can do differently to be better next year.
Sometimes a quote like the ones below can be the springboard for
introspective thought.
We need summer as an opportunity to recharge our batteries and
recommit to our profession. Yet we also need time to think and assess and to
challenge ourselves to be even better next year than this year. As I discussed
in our end-of-year faculty/staff meeting, a strength of Trinity is its
commitment to continuous improvement.
While we all hope the next year is better, this year has been
great! I thank each and every one of you for your creativity, dedication, and
passion for making the 2017-18 school year so memorable and meaningful for your
students.
Close your eyes and think about the teachers who made a difference
in your life. I see Mrs. Scott in 4th grade, Mr. Podmore in 6th
grade, Mr. Coe in 7th grade, Mr. Barrett in 9th grade,
Mrs. Vuillet in 12th grade, and Dr. Athey, my college advisor and
history teacher. Each one had a slightly different style but all provided me
what I needed (encouragement, inspiration, confidence, etc.) when I needed it.
Our legacy as educators is in the memories of our students—and
sometimes the ones we impact the most are the ones we doubted we were reaching.
Thank you again for all you have done and will continue to do for
Trinity and for your students!
Joe
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In these crazy times, there's nothing we
seek more than a bit of soothing wisdom in our lives. Words that inspire us to
success—while still brimming with sage advice—are the best cure for any
difficulties we may find ourselves in.
Let these 37
wise quotes fill you with new found encouragement and motivate you to achieving
even greater things.
1. In three
words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on-- Robert
Frost
2. Life is
ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it--Lou
Holtz
3. Our prime
purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least
don't hurt them--Dalai Lama
4. When life
is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor--Eleanor Roosevelt
5. There is
more to life than increasing its speed--Mahatma Gandhi
6. Many of
life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up--Thomas A. Edison
7. I've
failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I
succeed--Michael Jordan
8. The most
difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears
are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change
and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward--Amelia
Earhart
9. Today is
life--the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in
something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm
sweep through you. Live today with gusto--Dale Carnegie
10. Life is
not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced--Soren Kierkegaard
11. In the
end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your
years--Abraham Lincoln
12. We make a
living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give--Winston Churchill
13. Remember
your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is
just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of
failure--Paulo Coelho
14. My
mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some
passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style--Maya Angelou
15. Change
is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain
to miss the future--John F. Kennedy
16. There is
no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living-- Nelson Mandela
17. Our
greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has
placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health,
occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits--Thomas Jefferson
18. We have
always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better
life, a better world, beyond the horizon--Franklin D. Roosevelt
19. Don't
take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive--Elbert Hubbard
20. Each
person must live their life as a model for others--Rosa Parks
21. Life is
a daring adventure or nothing at all--Helen Keller
22. My
philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of
our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose--somehow we win
out--Ronald Reagan
23. Life
takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in
an unstoppable manner--Les Brown
24. Life is
not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you
bounce--Vivian Komori
25. Each
life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing
patience and being persistent--Billy Graham
26. The
ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation
rather than upon mere survival--Aristotle
27. Anyone
who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind
young--Henry Ford
28. Life
isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself--George Bernard
Shaw
29. All life
is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better--Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. If you
don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's
plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much--Jim Rohn
31.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the
necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this
respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become--C. S.
Lewis
32. The
quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor--Vince Lombardi
33. Life is
a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only
creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in
whatever way they like--Lao Tzu
34. Life's
most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others--Martin
Luther King, Jr.
35. People
grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built--Eleanor Roosevelt
36. The
secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having
pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If
you don't, life controls you--Tony Robbins
37. The
biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams--Oprah
Winfrey
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