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

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

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

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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

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

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

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.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.