Ryan Sargent

“Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.”
― Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
― Haim Ginott

“The art of the hero wasn’t about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn’t an issue.”
― Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

“The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.”
― Homer, The Iliad