Words of Inspiration and Motivation

Below, I have listed several quotes that inspire and motivate me as an early childhood professional. These quotes lift my spirits in difficult times and encourage me to continue to pursue my professional goals. I hope that they offer you the same support they have given me over the years.


"Every 36 seconds, a child is neglected or abused; every 41 seconds, a baby is born into poverty; every 59 seconds, a baby is born without health insurance; every minute, a baby is born to a teen mother; and every three hours, a child is killed by gunfire. Those facts are not acts of God but a result of our moral and economic choices as a society. We can and must change them."

 

-Marian Wright Edelman





 

These 5 goals set by Itard the wild boy he named Victor can be viewed as the first individualized education plan (IEP) for special education: "To give the boy the ability to respond to other people. To train his senses. To extend his physical and social needs. To teach him to speak. To teach him to think clearly."

 

-Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard

 

"I always wanted to be a teacher.... I had a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution in the world and to fix all the injustices that existed in the world, and I wanted to do that through teaching."

 

-Louise Derman-Sparks

 

"We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child's life for the better, and so that's what makes me passionate about this field."

 

-Sandy Escobedo

 

"Humility turns out to be quite different from humiliation, and the difference is largely up to you."

 

-Jim Schluy

 

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

 

-George Washington Carver