Quotes scattered on my classroom walls

You are who you will yourself to be
-Sartre

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do
– Eleanor Roosevelt


WHAT WE DO FOR OURSELVES DIES WITH US.
WHAT WE DO FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS ETERNAL.
-ALBERT PINE

The only dream worth having: To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
-Arundhati Roy

U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in leather, a radio network, a chain of movie theaters, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers and dog-eared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil. U.S.A. is the world’s greatest river valley fringed with mountains and hills. U.S.A. is a set of big mouthed officials with two many bank accounts. U.S.A. is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery. U.S.A is the letters at the end of an address when you are away from home. But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
-John Dos Passos

Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
-Thomas Paine

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
-Eddie Rickenbacker
World War I hero

Time does not change things. Leaders change things.
-Jessie Jackson

Ability without honor is useless.
-Cicero

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
-John Quincy Adams

The consciousness of having done that duty which we owe our country is superior to all other considerations.
George Washington