Top 39 Marva Collins Quotes
#1. I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
Jodi Picoult
#2. I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
Marva Collins
#3. There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins
#4. Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
#5. What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
Marva Collins
#6. The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
Marva Collins
#7. I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Marva Collins
#8. I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.
Deidre Hall
#9. 'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.
Jason Aldean
#10. Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
Marva Collins
#11. Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
Marva Collins
#12. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Marva Collins
#14. When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Marva Collins
#15. This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
Tom Robbins
#16. And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to approve of it.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#17. None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
Marva Collins
#18. A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
Jessye Norman
#19. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Marva Collins
#20. I'm just glad you took me back, he said, grinning widely. Stupid grin. It made me want to kiss him, and I shouldn't have wanted to kiss him.
Monica Alexander
#21. Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
#22. There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
Marva Collins
#23. Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
Marva Collins
#24. You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
Marva Collins
#25. Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins
#26. Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins
#27. Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Marva Collins
#28. Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Marva Collins
#29. Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins
#30. An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
Marva Collins
#31. What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it ... " The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.
Rob Bell
#32. Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.
Marva Collins
#33. You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher.
Deyth Banger
#34. Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.
Marva Collins
#35. I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.
Marva Collins
#37. Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
Marva Collins
#38. If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Will Rogers
#39. I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
Marva Collins
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