Newburgh Enlarged City School District
"Quotations "

Mini-Lesson

1."When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." Walter Lippmann

2. "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." Lord Thomas Dewar

3. "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try." Beverly Sills

4. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."Maya Angelou

5. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein

6. "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." Austin Phelps

7. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain

8. "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." Flora Whittemore

9. "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them." Anne Landers

10. "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

11. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Richard Bach

12. "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." Joan Borysenko

13. "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb

14. "When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character." W. Somerset Maugham

15. "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Ziggy

16. "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." Albert Camus

17. "He is able who thinks he is able." Buddha