Alice von Hildebrand Quotes

There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

Alice von Hildebrand

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Know
  • Qualities

• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Teaching
  • Most
  • Did

• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
  • Teach
  • Teaching

• I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

  

  Quint Studer
  • People
  • Culture
  • Learning

• As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Training

• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  

  Allen Tate
  • May
  • History
  • Alone

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• Look within,

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Differences

• All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

  

  Elinor Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Environment

• The best learning I had came from teaching.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • God
  • Learning
  • Spiritual

• A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Learning

• She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • She
  • Leadership
  • Qualities

• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Rich
  • Changed
  • Teaching

• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Missing
  • Undone

• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Destiny
  • Temper
  • Mania

• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  

  Alice von Hildebrand
  • Teaching
  • Qualities
  • Vocation