Marva Collins Quotes

31 quotes in 312 categories

• None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
• An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
• Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
• 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…
• Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
• 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…
• 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…
• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
• The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
• If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
• There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
• Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
• I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
• Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
• Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
• 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…
• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
• Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
• If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

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