THE AMBITIOUS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Quotations for Essays

1. Aim in Life
 “Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” ~ James Russell Lowell
 “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” ~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
 “An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.” ~ Robert
Louis Stevenson
 “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves
simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee
 “Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big,
aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your
life.”~ Gary Keller
 “The aim if reached or not makes great the life.”
 “Chiefly the mold of man’s fortune is in his own hard.”~
Francis Bacon
2. Teaching
 “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over
which they invite their students to cross.”
 “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the
way for others.”
 “You have the fathers one of them is your teacher.”
 “Teaching is a profession that teaches all the professions.”
 “Education is a key to success in life; and teachers make a
lasting impact in the life of their students.”
 “They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to the sky”
3. Hobby
 “A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”~ Phyllis McGinley
 “I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my
job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.”~ David Beckham
 Beware the hobby that eats.~ Benjamin Franklin
 “A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.”
 “When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.”

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 “Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look
beautiful and feel Proud.”~ Sukant Ratnakar
 “You success is greatly determined by how you spend your
spare time.”
4. Gardening
 “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you
need.”~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
 “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”~ Thomas
Jefferson
 “Garden as though you will live forever.”~ William Kent
 “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the
flower.” ~ Rabindranarth
 “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”~ John Keats
 “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
 “What is life if , full of care
We have no time to stand and stare”

5. College
 “College is the best time of your life. When else are your
parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for
you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”
~David Wood
 “Colleges don’t make fools, they only develop them.”~
Richard Steve
 “College is a refuge from hasty judgment.”~
Robert Frost
 “The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good
man when you see one.”~ William James
 “College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are
there to drink.”~ Martian Luther King
 “College life is a life of freedom”~ Benazir Bhutto
 “Life in a college is more fun than serious effort to get
education”

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 “Experience is a hard teacher. It gives test first than the
lesson.”
 “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education,
but the means to an education.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Memories
 Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer
to the heart's desire.~ John Dewey
 “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you
apart.” ~ Haruki Murakami
 “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” ~ John Banville
 “Humans, not places, make memories.”~ Ama Ata Aidoo
 “Today’s beautiful moments are tomorrows beautiful
memories.”
 “Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”
 “Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.”
 “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.”~ Abraham Lincoln

7. Education
 “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela
 “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman;
you educate a generation.” ~ Brigham Young
 “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no
education at all.”~ Aristotle
 “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true
education.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
 “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.”~ Mahatma Gandhi
 “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
~George Washington Carver

8. Allama Iqbal
 “The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be
something.”~ Allama Iqbal

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 “Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in
the hands of politicians.” ~Allama Iqbal
 “Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.” ~ Allama
Iqbal
 “Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot
give a lasting culture.”~ Allama Iqbal
 “If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him
who does not adhere to religion.” ~ Allama Iqbal
 “Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”
~Muhammad Iqbal
 “Inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”~
Allama Iqbal
9. Poetry
 “When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets
burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”~ Muhammad Iqbal
 “Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”~ Carl Sandburg
 “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”~
Albert Einstein
10. Personality
 “Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to
curse, and power to bless.”~ Paul Harris
 “Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.” ~ Charles
Schwab
 “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence
descendants for generations.”~ Beatrix Potter
11. Hero
 “Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves
extraordinary.” ~ Gerard Way
 “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something
bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell
 “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the
inheritance of a great example.” Benjamin Disraeli
 “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds” ~Greek Philosopher
 "Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how
far we can go." ~ Bernard Malamud
 “Hero is someone who understands the responsibility that
comes with his freedom.”

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 “They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to sky”
12. An Ideal Student
 “An ideal student is one who was not trying to compete with the
fellow students.”
 “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
 “Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.”
 “Where there is no struggle there is no strength.”
 “A person can achieve everything by being humble and simple.”
 “If a person is educated but has no moral values, he is a danger
to the society.”
 “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of freedom.”
 “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
 “Punctuality is the virtue of the board.”
 “Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
13. An Accident
 “Uncertainty is the bigger truth of life.”
 “Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong
right time.”
 “There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned.”
 “Accidents on big mountains happens when people ambitions
cloud their good judgments.”
 “Better a thousand times careful than once dead.”
 “Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.”
 “Carelessness doesn’t bounce; it shatters.”
 “Broken tools can’t be replaced; a man can’t.”
 “It takes grace and courage to endure the worst situation.”

14. City Life

 “The city is not a concrete jungle, it’s a human zoo.”
 “Cities remain open at night. Cities like cats will reveal
themselves at night.”

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 “The pressure of survival in big city will make you lose sight of
your dream… Hang in there.”
 “A great is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
 “Selfishness is the greatest curse of human race.”
15. Village life
 “A village is a hive of glass where nothing unabsorbed can pass.”
 “The sun does not forget a village just because it is small”
 “Instead of nobleman, let us have noble village of men.”
 “I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small
villages and took care of each other.”
 “Farmers only worry during the growing season, but town’s
people worry all the time.”
 “There is huge sense of loneliness when people leave village and
move to cities.”
 “Healthy people is the greatest asset any country can have.”
16. A Picnic Party
 “What is life if , full of care
We have no time to stand and stare”
 “You can plan a picnic but you can’t predict the weather.”
 “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”~ John Keats
 “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature, it will never fail
you.”
 “Though nothing can bring back the hour, of splendor in grass,
of glory in the flowers.”
17. Computers
 “Access to computers and the interest has become a basis need
for education of our society.”
 “Computers have a lot of memory but no imagination.”
 “Computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any
invention in human history.”
 “Computers have to become human literate.”
 “The real danger is not that computer will begin to think like
men, but the men will begin to think like computers.”
18. Mobile Phones
 “Home is where the heart is but today, Phone is where the heart
is!!!”
 “Today a man is known by the company of phones he keeps.”

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 “Mobile is future of workplace learning.”
 “Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways of
human knowledge.”
 “It’s not a thing, good or bad but it’s the use that makes it good or
bad.”
 “Food of phone, the radiation, is invisible pollution of society.”
 “Machines teach to exist not to live.”
19. Terrorism
 “Terrorism has no nationality or religion.”
 “Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.”
 “Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.”
 “Terrorism is a horrible thing that is great threat to civilization
on our planet.”
 “Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security,
prosperity and people.”
 “Everybody is worried about stopping terrorism. Well there’s a
really easy way: stop participating in it.”
 “Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.”

Aim for the moon. If you miss you may hit a

star

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