Wanda's Favorite Quotes


These are some of my favorite sayings... as an elementary teacher, I like these sayings made into posters or banners and posted in the classroom. I collected these over the years from different sources — mostly other teachers, magazines, and educational catalogues.

You are not finished when you lose; you are finished when you quit!

No one is a failure who keeps trying!

Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation.

What is popular is not always right; what is right is not always popular.

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Let the choices you make be the choices you can live with tomorrow.

You are responsible for YOU!

Be yourself. You're the only one who can do it right!

LEARN from the past, LIVE in the present, PLAN for the future.

Stand up for what is right, even if you're standing alone.

Listen up! You never know what you might learn.

The difference between ordinary and EXTRAordinary is that little EXTRA.

Don't just do enough to get by...do enough to GET AHEAD!

The things you DON'T DO are as IMPORTANT as the things you DO!

Don't make excuses. Make improvements!

Winners make the grade. Whiners make excuses.

You can't choose your circumstances, but you can choose to overcome them.

You EARN respect by how you live, NOT by what you demand.

The greatest things in the world were accomplished by ordinary people with some EXTRAordinary ideas.

The best time to study is between yesterday and tomorrow.

If you expect respect, be the first to SHOW IT!

Friendship is free, and the rewards are priceless!

Respect starts with how you treat yourself.

The most important person to honest with is yourself.

Your teacher's goal is simple...to help you reach yours!

Courage is doing right when everyone around you is doing wrong.

A good education is like a savings account; the more you put into it, the richer you become.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher.

It's okay to make a MISTAKE when you've tried. It's a MISTAKE not to try.

We are what we repeatedly do. EXCELLENCE, then, is not an act but a habit.

Take time to do your BEST. It may be the only chance you get!

A teacher's challenge: To develop young minds without losing your own!

If you say, "I can't", you won't. If you say, "I quit", you lose. If you say, "I'll try", you might just win. It's your choice.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

CHARACTER is made by what you stand for; REPUTATION by what you fall for.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

An error doesn't make a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Don't tell me what I'm doing wrong. Tell me what I'm doing right.

People may doubt what you say; but they will always believe what you do.

I don't GIVE out grades. You EARN them.

A mistake is a chance to TRY HARDER.

I try to take one day at a time...but lately several days have attacked me at once.

To settle an argument, think about WHAT is right, not WHO is right!

This room is a magic place. We're making tomorrow!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.


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