Sayings on Walls
By EmmyLu18
@EmmyLu18 (102)
United States
July 4, 2012 5:16pm CST
I don't know about you, but my high school has these encouraging sayings and quotes all over the walls. I know most students probably go throughout their high school career simply glancing at these sayings every so often, but not really grasping their meaning, and then they graduate having taken very little or nothing from most of them.
Personally, I couldn't tell you what half of them say, but there's one that I saw on my way to my first class every morning that I'd always read and it's just stuck with me:
"Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
I love that quote and tend to remember it whenever I find myself discussing people.
Did your school have motivational quotes on the walls? Did any of them stick with you and/or inspire you?
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@EmmyLu18 (102)
• United States
4 Jul 12
oh, I wasn't talking about the bathroom writing put up by kids and stuff like that lol...no this was put up by the school itself.
But I remember this long discussion in this one stall when I was in 8th grade regarding this 6th grade teacher all the girls swore was a pervert...interesting reading material. They keep you entertained while you pee lol
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
5 Jul 12
Sadly, in my generation, inspiring quotes were limited to the individual teachers' bulletin boards. I do remember one that my Social Studies teacher had on her bulletin board for many months: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
I have seen in recent years, though, that the administration has been posting posters and such in the hallways to catch as many students as they could. I don't know if this is effective at all but it certainly makes the hallways a little more interesting to walk down. 
@Reg1881 (92)
• Hungary
8 Jul 12
Unfortunately my school didn't have quotes but I grown to love them and many times I'm really touched by them. Here are a few of my favourites:
"Plenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer." - Zulu proverb
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase
"Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa
I really like these, they make me think. Quotes are one reason why I like Criminal Minds and Being Erica so much.
@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
9 Jul 12
Hmmm...your Stuart Chase quote sounds like one from the Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel. Are you sure Stuart Chase was the source for that one???
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
7 Sep 12
One of the motivational quotes I remember always seeing inside the peer counselor's room was: Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.[i][/i]
It was a quote that I really didn't bother to think much about. But as I grew older, I now know what it meant --- that whatever results we get are from actions we have initiated.
