I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

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.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

There is no substitute for victory.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.