How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

What we think, we become.

I’m ugly.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Success has always been a great liar.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I focus on my own job.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.