Anne Sullivan Quotes & Sayings

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

“Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.”

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

“We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.”

“A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.”

“The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.”

“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.”