Character penmanship quote April 13- 17

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

Ernest Hemingway

Character penmanship quote April 6 - 10

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

~Thomas Jefferson

Character penmanship quote March 30- April 3, 2009

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

~Tao Te Ching



I also found a nice quote by Confucius for myself.

"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

LOVE IT! I *will* remember that quote the next time I debate homeschooling. :) Seems to me it is an answer to the naysayer complaint (normally from teachers themselves) that they could never teach their own children.

Character penmanship quote March 2- 6, 2009

"Love... doesn't allow any room for pettiness or narrow outlook."
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Indian spiritual leader)

Character penmanship quote Feb. 23 - 27, 2009

"Do unto others as you would have done unto you." ~ The Golden Rule

Discuss some of the many different religions and philosophies that recommend the same.


Ancient Egyptian:
"Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do." The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, 109 - 110 Translated by R.B. Parkinson. The original dates to 1970 to 1640 BCE and may be the earliest version ever written. 3

Christianity:
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12, King James Version.

Islam:
"None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself." Number 13 of Imam "Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths." 5

Taoism:
"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien.

Wicca:
"An it harm no one, do what thou wilt" (i.e. do what ever you will, as long as it harms nobody, including yourself). One's will is to be carefully thought out in advance of action. This is called the Wiccan Rede

Plato: "May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me." (Greece; 4th century BCE)

Socrates: "Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you." (Greece; 5th century BCE)

Character penmanship quote Feb. 17 - 20, 2009

"Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going."

~ Jim Ryun (Long distance runner)

Character penmanship quote Feb. 9 - 13

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

~ Oliver Holmes
physician and poet

Character penmanship quote February 2- 6

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”

~ H. G. Wells

Character penmanship quote January 26 - 30

What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.

~Ancient Egyptian proverb from an outer temple wall

Character penmanship quote January 20 - 23

Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion

~ Egyptian proverb found in the temples of Luxor

Character penmanship quote January 12 - 16

You can reach your goal, your best dreams can come true, you can get where you want to go only if you know what your goal is.
-Vincent Peale

Character penmanship quote January 8

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

- Mark Twain

A few quotes for Halloween

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

~George Carlin

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...

~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

~Erma Bombeck

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

~Chris Rock

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

~J.M. Barrie

Penmanship Character Quote May 5

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. ~Cesar Chavez

penmanship character quote April 28

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~Robert H. Schuller

I believe Mr. Schuller is on to something.

Penmanship Character Quote April 21, 2008

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Albert Einstein

Penmanship Character Quote ~April 15

Procrastination is a thief of time.

penmanship character quote March 24

(Whoops! I'm late getting this one listed. Sorry.)

“It's spring fever.... You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

~Mark Twain

penmanship character quote March 10

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

Paul Bryant

penmanship character quote March 3 - 9

It is a mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle