Explore more quotes by Horace Mann

"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

Desire, Inspiring

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart."

Heart, Fear, Grief, Needs

"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."

Money, Time, Act, Dishonesty

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."

Compassion, Pity

"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

Truth, Greatness, Will

"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."

Truth, Paradise, Light

"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

Life, Death, Fear, Benevolence

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

Education, Quality, Enjoyment, Infinite

"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."

Time, Reward, Sunset

"Evil and good are God's right hand and left."

God, Evil, Right

Exlpore more Victory quotes

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Victory, Lies

"I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Victory, Deep, Ending

"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Victory, Defeat

"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."

Sarah Brady, American Activist

Victory, Commonsense

"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."

Carol Moseley Braun, American Politician

Victory, Civilrights, Racism

"Defeat has its lessons as well as victory."

Pat Buchanan, American Journalist

Victory, Defeat

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Victory, Angels, Heaven, Hell

"No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible."

James P. Cannon, American Activist

Victory,

"Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq."

Andrew Card, American Politician

Victory, Iraq, Will

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Victory,