Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe...
MARIA MONTESSORI What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...
MARIA MONTESSORI The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...
MARIA MONTESSORI The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l...
MARIA MONTESSORI The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ...
MARIA MONTESSORI We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...
MARIA MONTESSORI Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the soc...
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now workin...
MARIA MONTESSORI All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the v...
MARIA MONTESSORI In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. I...
MARIA MONTESSORI Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...
MARIA MONTESSORI Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two d...
MARIA MONTESSORI If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means f...
MARIA MONTESSORI The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural...
MARIA MONTESSORI Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the...
MARIA MONTESSORI There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these...
MARIA MONTESSORI Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous c...
MARIA MONTESSORI The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of th...
MARIA MONTESSORI We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothin...
MARIA MONTESSORI If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable ...
MARIA MONTESSORI The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...
MARIA MONTESSORI Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a...
MARIA MONTESSORI The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen...
MARIA MONTESSORI All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co...
MARIA MONTESSORI To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...
MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h...
MARIA MONTESSORI Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous...
MARIA MONTESSORI The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...
MARIA MONTESSORI We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somew...
MARIA MONTESSORI We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the cons...
MARIA MONTESSORI The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has rema...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human...
MARIA MONTESSORI The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...
MARIA MONTESSORI When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th...
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmat...
MARIA MONTESSORI The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a p...
MARIA MONTESSORI If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intell...
MARIA MONTESSORI Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-u...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as...
MARIA MONTESSORI Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the end...
MARIA MONTESSORI Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world
MARIA MONTESSORI I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have...
MARIA MONTESSORI It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, ...
MARIA MONTESSORI The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the con...
MARIA MONTESSORI When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the enti...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposit...
MARIA MONTESSORI Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have ne...
MARIA MONTESSORI When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the rest of the world wonder how you did it.
MARIA The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T...
MARIA BARTIROMO I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person...
MARIA SHRIVER Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh...
MARIA BAMFORD I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor...
MARIA SEMPLE No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you'...
MARIA SHRIVER Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
MARIA CANTWELL That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS How success changes the opinion of men!
MARIA EDGEWORTH My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in l...
MARIA SHRIVER It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good foo...
MARIA SHARAPOVA Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to...
MARIA BARTIROMO I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within m...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want my tennis to speak for everything.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So b...
MARIA SHARAPOVA Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
MARIA SHARAPOVA Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you...
MARIA SHARAPOVA If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the wo...
MARIA SHARAPOVA Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
MARIA SHARAPOVA You control your own wins and losses.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessaril...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires...
MARIA SHARAPOVA When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
MARIA SHARAPOVA I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around fiv...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
MARIA SHARAPOVA Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
MARIA SHARAPOVA An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and hee...
MARIA BELLO Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
MARIA MENOUNOS I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father -...
MARIA BAMFORD Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true c...
MARIA CANTWELL All I want to do is be at Hogwarts with you, eating turkey legs in the great hall while listening to...
MARIA ELENA I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a speci...
MARIA BAMFORD I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would...
MARIA SEMPLE I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll mani...
MARIA BAMFORD I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no su...
MARIA BARTIROMO Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...
MARIA MITCHELL If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it...
MARIA BARTIROMO As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
MARIA MITCHELL I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjo...
MARIA MITCHELL My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi...
MARIA BAMFORD Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
MARIA MITCHELL If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
MARIA EDGEWORTH An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS "Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of ...
MARIA BROOKS Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be...
MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER