Kurt Hahn Quotes

#1. And don't look for anything out of the law around here," she said. "The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It's every man for hisself."
"But as the saying goes, if you can't get justice," Mrs. Dowdel remarked, "get even.

Richard Peck

#2. Your disability is your opportunity.

Kurt Hahn

#3. It helps to remember that people who possess the qualities we lack aren't any better than us. They weren't given a bigger piece of the awesome pie. They are just as flawed, but in different ways.

Michaela Chung

#4. One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;

Matthew Henry

#5. The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

Kurt Hahn

#6. Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#7. I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

Kurt Hahn

#8. There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.

Kurt Hahn

#9. When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

Gunilla Brodde Norris

#10. I'm two decisions away from putting up drywall for a living. I am, and there's nothing wrong with that, but whatever I got, it's through the grace of God, and I've got to use it right.

Jeff Foxworthy

#11. The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

Kurt Hahn

#12. There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

Kurt Hahn

#13. Belle had a feeling that someone had hurt this man very badly in the past. That didn't, however, mean that she would allow him to abuse her in turn.

Julia Quinn

#14. Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

Kamila Shamsie

#15. The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

Kurt Hahn

#16. There is more in you than you think.

Kurt Hahn

#17. Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

Jack Dangermond

#18. Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world ...

Kurt Hahn

#19. He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Plato

#20. It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Johan Cruijff

#21. The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Martin Luther

#22. If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

Dolly Parton

#23. It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

Kurt Hahn

#24. We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

Kurt Hahn

#25. Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'
Customer's friend: 'Jesus.

Jen Campbell

#26. There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

Kurt Hahn

#27. Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

Kurt Hahn

#28. Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.

Marian Keyes

#29. Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

Kurt Hahn

#30. Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

Kurt Hahn

#31. The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

Kurt Hahn

#32. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

A.C. Dixon