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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Teach Different with Anonymous Author

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Teach Different with Mark Twain

“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive” - Teach Different with Howard Thurman

“I never lose. I either win or learn.” - Teach Different with Attribute to Nelson Mandela

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” Teach Different with Eleanor Roosevelt

“My response to racism is anger.” - Teach Different with Audre Lorde

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” - Teach Different with a Greek Proverb

“My humanity is caught up in yours.” - Teach Different with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“You don't win a war by talking to the enemy.” - Teach Different with Margaret Thatcher

“When you run after a coward for too long, you meet its courage.” - Teach Different with Unknown Author

“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.” - Teach Different with Unknown Author

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Teach Different with Blaise Pascal

“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.” Teach Different with Rev. Jesse Jackson

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it very simply by the lives they lead." - Teach Different with James Baldwin

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone, but if someone puts his hand on you, send them to the cemetery.” - Teach Different with Malcom X

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” - Teach Different with Martin Luther King Jr.

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” - Teach Different with Aristotle

“Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” - Teach Different with Romans 12 verse 21

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - Teach Different with George Orwell

“Fear is the mind killer.” - Teach Different with Frank Herbert

“Courage is the most important of all virtues.” - Teach Different with Maya Angelou

“It's better to be alone than in bad company.” - Teach Different with George Washington

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” - Teach Different with Robert Louis Stevenson

“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Teach Different with Albert Einstein

“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” - Teach Different with Max De Pree - Change

“When there is love, you can live even without happiness.” - Teach Different with Fyodor Dostoevsky

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” - Teach Different with Rumi - Faith

“The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.” - Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi

“Never ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” - Teach Different with John Lewis

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Teach Different with Epictetus

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” - Teach Different with Aldous Huxley

'It hurts to be different, but I would rather hurt than be like my circumstance.” - Teach Different with Jarvis Funches

“Missing an opportunity because you lack the courage to jump hurts more than trying and failing.” Teach Different with Unknown Author, Courage and Failure

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” Teach Different with Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.

“It's not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong, but it is his duty at least to wash his hands of it.” - With Thoreau

“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.” - Teach Different with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” - Teach Different with William Fulbright

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Teach Different with Benjamin Franklin

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Teach Different with Booker T. Washington

“Imagination is the only key to the future. With it, all things are possible.” Teach Different with Ida Tarbell

“I don’t like that man, I must get to know him better.” - Teach Different with Unknown Author

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” - Teach Different with Anonymous Author

“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” Japanese Proverb

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Teach Different with Aristotle/Plato

“Pride must die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you.” Teach Different with Andrew Murray

“Acceptance is the key to peace.” Teach Different with Unknown Author

"We can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return." Teach Different with Muhammad Ali - Generosity

"Trust is built with consistency." Teach Different With Lincoln Chafee

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” Teach Different with Ernest Hemingway

“When you really want something, all the universe conspires to help achieve it.” - Teach Different with Paulo Coelho

“It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in war.” Teach Different with Bruce Lee

“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Teach Different with Lao Tzu

“He who feeds you, controls you.” - Teach Different with Thomas Sankara

“Even a sheep must learn to lead the flock someday.” - Teach Different with Unknown Author

“ If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” - Teach Different with Henry Ford

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Frederick Douglass with Teach Different

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Teach Different with Henry David Thoreau - Self-Discovery

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope." Teach Different with Epictetus

“Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” - Teach Different with Confucius - Self-Control and Boundaries

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Teach Different with Zora Neale Hurston - Self-expression

“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” - Teach Different with Confucius

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” Teach Different with Marcus Aurelius

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world,” - Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi

“Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you,” - Teach Different with Geronimo of the Apache Tribe

“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more” - Teach Different with Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Native American Tribe

“Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart,” - Teach Different with Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation - Living Without a Fearful Heart

“Each person is his own judge,” - Native American Proverb, Shawnee Nation - Balancing Self-reflection and External Feedback

“And to suppress any truth is to give it power beyond endurance,” - Teach Different with Audre Lorde. When is it okay to suppress the truth?

“He who has a why can bear almost any how” - Teach Different with Friedrich Nietzsche Finding Your Purpose Through Community

“The greatest glory in life lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” - Teach Different with Nelson Mandela

“You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed” - Teach Different with Jane Addams - Embrace Struggle or Seek Peace

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" - Teach different with Marie Curie-Overcoming Fear Through Understanding and Action

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." Teach Different with Malcolm X- Planned or not Planned

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." Teach Different with Stephen Covey - Growth Mindset

"Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth." Teach Different with Albert Einstein - Authority

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Teach Different with Franklin D. Roosevelt - Self-Doubt

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done, because they want to do it." Teach Different with Dwight D. Eisenhower - Leadership

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you." - Teach Different with Christian Morgenstern - Identity

“Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master.” Teach Different with Christian Lous Lange - Technology

"When somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Self Respect

"Loyalty to the country always, loyalty to the government when it deserves it." - Teach Different with Mark Twain - Loyalty

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Teach Different with Evelyn Beatrice Hall - Freedom of Expression

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." Teach Different with W.E.B. Dubois - Self Expression

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody." Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Forgiveness

"Power concedes nothing without a demand." Teach Different with Frederick Douglass

"To lose patience is to lose the battle." -- Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi - Patience

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." —Teach Different with Lao Tzu - Respect

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are." Teach Different with Kurt Cobain

"The true measure of life is memory." Teach Different with Walter Benjamin - Perspective

“It’s better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.” Teach Different with Apache Proverb - Self-Expression

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." Teach Different with Kahlil Gibran - Suffering

“Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Teach Different with Nelson Mandela - Resiliency

"It's better to be alone than in bad company." Teach Different with George Washington attribution - Character

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." Teach Different with Herbert Spencer - Education

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” Teach Different with James Clear - Success

“Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.” Teach Different with Simon Sinek - Leadership

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Teach Different with Unknown Author - Determination

“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better tomorrow.” Teach Different with Simon Sinek - Perfection

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Teach Different with Soren Kierkegaard - Mindfulness

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” Teach Different with John Maxwell - Leadership

"Try to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud." Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Happiness

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Teach Different with Ralph Waldo Emerson - Mindfulness

"I am because you are." Teach Different with Ubuntu Philosophy - Interdependence

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” Teach Different with William Shakespeare - Communication

"The first duty of society is justice." Teach Different with Wendell Phillips - Duty

"You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." Teach Different with Navajo saying - Education

"To handle yourself, use your head, to handle others, use your heart." Teach Different with Eleanor Roosevelt - Social Awareness

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." Teach Different with Booker T. Washington - Self-development

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Teach Different with Elbert Hubbard - Decision Making

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Teach Different with an African Proverb - Cooperation

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all." Teach Different with William Shakespeare - Decision Making

“It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” Teach Different with Ella Fitzgerald - Goal Setting

"Each person must live their life as a model for others." Teach Different with Rosa Parks - Self-Awareness

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." Teach Different with Lau Tzu - Self-Discipline

"Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Teach Different with Martin Luther King, Jr. - Love

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn." Teach Different with Helen Keller - Goal Setting

"If you're going through hell, keep going." Teach Different - Determination

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." Teach Different with Shirley Chisholm - Acceptance

"Begin with the end in mind." Teach Different with Stephen Covey - Goal Setting

"Curiosity is deviant" Teach Different with Ian Leslie - Education

"Good leaders must first become good servants." Teach Different with Robert Greenleaf - Leadership

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Teach Different with Aristotle - Critical Thinking

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Teach Different with Plato - Honesty

"Reject the tyranny of being picked. Pick yourself." Teach Different with Seth Godin - Self-Reliance

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Teach Different with Robert Louis Stevenson - Leadership

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." Teach Different with Albert Einstein - Success

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Teach Different with Nelson Mandela - Education

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." Teach Different with Seneca - Anger Management

"I knew that if I waited for permission, I'd never receive my turn." Teach Different with Shirley Chisholm - Self-Advocacy

"The measure of a man is what he does with power." Teach Different with Plato - Power

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." Teach Different with Seneca - Happiness

"The greatest teacher failure is." Teach Different with Yoda - Growth Mindset

"Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast." Teach Different with William Shakespeare - Decision Making

"The greatest effort is not concerned with the results." Teach Different with Buddhist Master Atisha - Goal Setting

"With self-discipline, anything is possible." Teach Different with Teddy Roosevelt - Self-discipline

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Teach Different with Winston Churchill - Success

"Anger never helps solve a problem." Teach Different with Dalai Lama - Anger

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." Teach Different with Malcolm X - Character

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Determination

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." Teach Different with Albert Einstein - Happiness

"Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be." Teach Different with James Baldwin - Freedom

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be." Teach Different with Alice Walker - Power

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” Teach Different with Marcus Aurelius - Anger Management

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Teach Different with Sun Tzu - Conflict

"A disciplined mind leads to happiness. An undisciplined mind leads to suffering." - Teach Different with the Dalai Lama - Discipline

"A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world." Teach Different with Atticus - Happiness

“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.” Teach Different with Lao Tzu - Humility

“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” Teach Different with Janis Joplin - Goal-Setting

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." Teach Different with Margaret Mead - Education

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone." Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi - Peer Pressure

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." Teach Different with Judy Garland - Self-Efficacy

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” Teach Different with Marcus Aurelius - Self Awareness

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism." Teach Different with Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Trust

"Knowing what must be done does away with fear." Teach Different with Rosa Parks - Fear

“Nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Teach Different With Anne Frank - Civic Engagement

“Have no fear of perfection, you'll never achieve it.” Teach Different with Marie Curie - Achievement

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” Teach Different with Friedrich Nietzche - Perseverance

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Teach Different with Indira Gandhi - Trust

"We never shape the world...the world shapes us." Teach Different with Toni Morrison - Self-Determination

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi - Sacrifice

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Teach Different with Eleanor Roosevelt - Self-Esteem

"You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served." Teach Different with Nina Simone - Self-Preservation

"With confidence, you've won before you've started." Teach Different with Marcus Garvey - A Group Conversation On Confidence

"If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success." Teach Different with Malcolm X - A Group Conversation On Success

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Teach Different with Frederick Douglass - Education

“It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” Teach Different with Epictetus - Stress Management

"Only you can control your future." Teach Different with Dr. Seuss - Self-efficacy

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Teach Different with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Loyalty

"Men are born to succeed, not fail." Teach Different with Henry David Thoreau - Perseverance

“Happiness depends on us.” Teach Different with Aristotle - Happiness

"The function of freedom is to free someone else." Teach Different with Toni Morrison - Responsibility

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." Teach Different with Stephen Covey - Diversity

"The only thing that I know is that I know nothing." Teach Different with Socrates - Humility

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” Teach Different with Aristotle - Friendship

"The best way to predict the future is to create it" Teach Different with Abraham Lincoln - Self-Determination

"Character, not circumstance makes a man." Teach Different with Booker T. Washington - Happiness

"Be mindful of the present, and the future will take care of itself." Teach Different with Lord Chesterfield - Goal-Setting

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world." Teach Different with Dr. Seuss - Responsibility

"All great achievements require time." Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Patience

"Character, not circumstance makes a man." Teach Different with Booker T. Washington - Character

"To lead people, walk beside them." Teach Different with Lao Tzu - Leadership

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." Teach Different with Mahatma Gandhi - Forgiveness

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." Teach Different with Michael Jordan - Teamwork

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." Teach Different with Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Honesty

"The secret to education lies in respecting the student." Teach Different with Ralph Waldo Emerson - Respect

"Our first teacher is our own heart." Teach Different with a Cheyenne Proverb - Self-Motivation

"Independence is happiness." Teach Different with Susan B. Anthony - Freedom

"Respect yourself and others will respect you." Teach Different with Confucius - Respect

"It does not require many words to speak the truth." Teach Different with Chief Joseph - Communication

"Your silence will not protect you." Teach Different with Audre Lorde - Self-Expression

"The only thing that I know is that I know nothing." Teach Different with Socrates - Humility

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Teach Different with Lao Tzu - Goal-Setting

"In a dark time the eye begins to see." Teach Different with Theodore Roethke - Perspective

“To do nothing is also a good remedy.” Teach Different with Hippocrates - Problem Solving

"Oh the things you can find if you don't stay behind." Teach Different with Dr. Seuss - Ambition

"Disobedience is the foundation of liberty." Teach Different with Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience

"It's better to be alone than in bad company." Teach Different with George Washington - Character

"Right makes might" Teach Different with Abraham Lincoln - Leadership

"There is no success without hardship." Teach Different with Sophocles - Hardship

"Happiness is a direction, not a place." Teach Different with Sydney Harris - Happiness

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Teach Different with Abraham Lincoln - Self-Determination

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." Teach Different with Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Self-Development

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." Teach Different with Benjamin Franklin - Responsibility

"It is by suffering that human beings become angels." Teach Different with Victor Hugo - Suffering

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer." Teach Different with Harriet Tubman - Dreams

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Teach Different with FDR - Fear

"Isolation is a way to know ourselves." Teach Different with Franz Kafka - Isolation

"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness." Teach Different with Seneca - Kindness

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” Teach Different with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Conflict

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love." Teach Different with Maya Angelou - Success

"The person with dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts." Teach Different with Albert Einstein - Imagination

"The best fighter is never angry." Teach Different with Lao Tzu - Anger

"He has the most who is content with the least." Teach Different with Diogenes - Happiness

"Alone we can do little. Together we can do so much." Teach Different with Hellen Keller - Cooperation

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say." Teach Different With Martin Luther - Responsibility

"Power must never be trusted without a check." Teach Different With John Adams - Social Awareness

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