THE PROGRADE SYSTEM THE FAST, COMPLETE, EASY TO USE GRADING PROGRAM FOR EDUCATORS P.O. Box 627, South Dennis, MASSACHUSETTS 02660 A quote "for the day" can be good motivation and thought provoking for many students and for their teachers as well. Don't be surprised to see the quotes on your student's notebook covers! And please -- we'd be delighted to hear from you if you have some favorite quotes yourself, particularly quotes that have had some influence on you or your students. Enjoy your teaching! Enjoy your learning! Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. Improvement begins with "I". The more options you have, the healthier you are. To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time. To believe is to care. To care is to do. It's okay to be wrong if your intent is right. The person who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the person who believes that he can't. All things are difficult before they are easy. The number one motivator is opportunity for success. There is no try- there is only do. (Yoda, ET) The day before Christmas is really a wrap race. The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. Arch Ward It is better to aim at a star than to shoot down a well; you'll hit higher. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Dale Carnegie Test tube babies are in a glass by themselves. Temper is so good a thing that you should never lose it. There are two kinds of people: those who realize what's the matter with them, and those who don't. The whole idea of New Year is: TRY AGAIN. The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. The door to the heart can only be opened from the inside. To be popular yourself, you must first learn to like others. The only way to be happy when you're successful is to be happy before you're successful. Those who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled by nothing. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert Schuller Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. The trouble with people who talk too fast is that they often say something that they haven't thought of yet. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. Herbert V. Prochnow It matters not how long we live, but how. If things are going real easy, watch out. You could be going downhill. If a geologist can't identify a particular rock, he can always take it for granite. Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. If you lead long enough, then the leaders will begin to follow. Termites never die. They just go on living happily ever rafter. Two wrongs might make a riot. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it. J. Jenkins Work is love made visible. Kahil Gibran Show me a thoroughly satisfied person, and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. There are three ways to teach a child. The first is by example. The second is by example. The third is by example. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. A vacation is what you take when you can't take anymore of what you've been taking. When you don't know what to do, scream. Why is there never enough time to do something right, but always enough time to do it over? When someone says that they're laying all the cards on the table, count them. Wish not so much to live long, as to live well. Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it. You are always right if you are willing to admit that you might have been wrong. You can lead a horse to water, but if you can make it float on its back, you've really got something. If you cannot enjoy your own company, how can you expect others to enjoy it? George Weinberg You should keep on learning as long as there is something to know. Seneca One way of changing the course of history is to take a history exam. To be good is not enough when you dream of being great. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but dream; not only plan, but believe. A person who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Charles Schwab Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. St. Francis de Sales Important principles must be flexible. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. The person who follows the crowd will never be followed by the crowd. James Donnell As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry D. Thoreau A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G. K. Chesterton Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. Old FBI agents never die-- they just get fed up. One day is worth two tomorrows. Once a cat has been burned, it won't sit on a hot stove again. It won't sit on a cold stove, either. People cannot change the truth, but the truth can change people. People who go on camping trips are usually intense people. We judge ourselves by that we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The person who thinks he has arrived is already slipping. William Feather It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human. Will Rogers Smile! It makes people wonder what you've been up to. The superior person rises high by bending down to help someone else. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. School is a classy place. Simple solutions seldom are. Only a mediocre person is always at his best. Somerset Maugham A man is rich in proportion the number of things which he can afford to leave alone. Henry D. Thoreau Babies often wake up in the wee-wee hours of the morning. A blizzard is a storm that winterupts traffic. People who drive big cars are fuelish. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet. Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes. It is not half as important to burn the midnight oil as it is to be awake in the daytime. E. W. Elmore The person who says "it can't be done" is generally interrupted by someone doing it. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Bixton First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to. Epictetus Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers It is no disgrace to start over. George M. Adams Failures are divided into two classes-- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. J. Salak If at first you don't succeed, you have plenty of company. Eldon Pederson Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off until the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain Courage is the art of being the only one who knows that you're scared to death. Don't be afraid of moving slowly; only be afraid of standing still. He that riseth late must trot all day. He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise. Happy people produce. Bored people consume. A clam's life is an open and shut case. Learning is the only thing that the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. Nothing is all wrong. Even a clock that is stopped is right twice a day. If you can tell good advice from bad advice, then maybe you don't need advice anymore. If you can't play a sport, at least be one. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. Don't expect anything original from an echo. Energy and persistence conquer all things. Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. Friendship is making yourself necessary to someone. Following the crowd can lead nowhere. Some never hear opportunity knock because they're too busy knocking opportunity. Hal Chadwick It is better to undertake a large task and get it half done that to undertake nothing and get it all done. W. Marshall Craig To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. Gottfried von Liebnitz Of all knowledge, the wise and the good seek most to know themselves. Shakespeare Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Cervantes You grow up the day that you have the first real laugh- at yourself. Ethel Barrymore In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel A bore is someone who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. Henry Ford If we did all the things that we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William Hazlitt Be what nature intended for you, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Martin Vanbee People wrapped up in themselves never unfold. P. K. Thomajan Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack. Spanish proverb Forgive others often, yourself never. Fear always springs from ignorance. Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Jean Jaques Rousseau A problem stated is a problem half solved. A dog's life is ruff. A once in a lifetime chance only comes once or twice in a lifetime. Archie Bunker Genius is the capacity of taking trouble. Good, better, best -- never let it rest Until your good is better and your better best. Great people are real people -- in them, nature has succeeded. A farmer is a person outstanding in his field. A hen is just an egg's way of making another hen. Gossip seems to travel fastest over the sour grapevine. Apologies only account for that which they cannot alter. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. Hard work never killed anyone, but it sure has scared a lot of people. Hard work is just all the easy things that you didn't do when you should have. A critic is a person who knows the way but who can't drive the car. A smile costs nothing, yet its value is priceless. An elephant is a mouse drawn to government specifications. A guilty conscience needs no accuser. A cat has nine lives, but a frog croaks every night. An astronaut is a whirled traveler. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Before giving someone a piece of your mind, be sure that you have enough to spare. It is easy to be critical. The real test is to come up with constructive alternatives. The future is that time when you'll wish that you'd done what you aren't doing now. A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others. He that cannot obey, cannot command. Benjamin Franklin If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb The most sensible diet plan begins before you get fat. A hungry person longs to eat; a glutton eats too long. One of the hardest lessons to learn is that the person who differs from you, not only in opinions but in principles, may be as honest and sincere as yourself. The optimist feels that we live in the best of possible worlds. The pessimist fears that this is true. Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard Baruch Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw The harder you work, the luckier you get. Work is more fun than fun. There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. To err is human, but to really mess things up requires a computer. It is never to late to be what you might have been. Cars, not drivers, should be well oiled. The chances of a piece of bread falling buttered-side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. Santayana The helping hand that many look for is right at the end of their own arm. An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. Don Marquis Very simple ideas are within the reach of only very complicated minds. Remy de Gourmont Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing that he is doing is too big for him. Lord Chesterfield The only thing that we learn from history is that we don't learn. Earl Warren A hero is one who does what he can. When one is helping another, both are strong. German Proverb Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct. E. Roosevelt We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John F. Kennedy He who talks of others should expect talk of himself. Four eyes see more that two. Good laws often come from bad manners. Great ships require deep waters. Keeping from falling is better than helping up. Big talkers are often little doers. Benjamin Franklin To win, you have to risk loss. Jean-Claude Killy We have the right to be wrong, but not the right to do wrong. John Diefenbacker Better one word before than two after. Welsh Proverb We should be concerned about the future because we have to spend the rest of our lives there. Gambling is one sure way of getting nothing for something. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within is. Ralph Waldo Emerson You can if you think you can. Norman V. Peale It is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. Nobody is a total failure if he dares to try to do something worthwhile. When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't. Today's decisions are tomorrows realities. A man is also known by the company he keeps clear of. Happiness is doing, not having. Don't knock the weather. Nine tenths of people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Blessed are those who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it. James Russell Lowell Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. It doesn't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again. A genius is a person who aims at something that no one else can see -- and hits it. THE PROGRADE SYSTEM THE FAST, COMPLETE, EASY TO USE GRADING PROGRAM FOR EDUCATORS P.O. 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