In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Genius is patience.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.