Bulletin Board "Hang Ups"
Looking for something to hang on your wall that will catch the mind as well as the eye? These Hang Ups should be just the ticket. We've collected dozens of quotations, grouped them by topic, and created colorful, printable, 8.5" x 11" Adobe Acrobat files that are ready to use. All you do is print 'em out and hang 'em up. Four sets are complete:
"Lines to Learning" - musings on education and knowledge
"Horizon Lines" - thoughts on greatness and achievement
"Goal Lines" - inspirations from sports
"Writer's Blocks" - quotations about writing and poetry
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| Click to View | Author | Quotation |
| Chinese proverb | "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." | |
| James Truslow Adams | "There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living. The other should teach us how to live." |
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| Muhammad Ali | "A man who has no imagination has no wings." | |
| Hans Christian Andersen | "To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness." | |
| Aristotle | "Life is doing things, not making things." | |
| Albert Einstein | "The only rational way of educating is to be an example." | |
| Albert Einstein | "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." | |
| Maurice Sendak | "There must be more to life than having everything." | |
| Haim Baruch | "People, like candles, dispel darkness; one can illumine a corner; many can enlighten the world." | |
| Erma Bombeck | "I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, and your blinding love." | |
| Bruno Bettelheim | "The most important thing is for the child to be respected." | |
| Malcolm Stevenson Forbes | "To measure the man, measure his heart." | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | "The price of greatness is responsibility." | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." | |
| Herodotus | "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." | |
| George Chapman | "They're only truly great who are truly good." | |
| William Shakespeare | "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | |
| Mother Theresa | "There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those." | |
| C. G. Jung | "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." | |
| André Gide | "Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else." | |
| Abraham Lincoln | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." | |
| Adlai Stevenson | "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world." | |
| Albert Camus | "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." | |
| Thomas Jefferson | "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." | |
| Michael Jordan | "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." | |
| John Wooden | "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." | |
| Joe Paterno | "The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." | |
| Satchel Paige | "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." | |
| Ray Knight | "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." | |
| William A. Ward | "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." | |
| General George Patton | "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." | |
| George Shultz | "The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." | |
| John Keats | "There is no fiercer hell than the failure in a great object." | |
| Herschel Walker | "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." | |
| Rollo May | "Creativity is a yearning for immortality." | |
| E. B. White | "Be obscure clearly." | |
| Bernard Malamud | "The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly" | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | "The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend." | |
| Philip Roth | "Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art." | |
| John McPhee | "Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life." | |
| John Steinbeck | "A writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." | |
| Clifton Fadiman | "When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." | |
| S.I. Hayakawa | "It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds as we wish." | |
| John F. Kennedy | "When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." | |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote." | |
| Stanley Kunitz | "Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning." | |