Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Find people who will make you better.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Well, 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.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Common Core is a big win for education.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

The only shame is to have none.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.