Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I do believe in self-help.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Better is the enemy of good.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.