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

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

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.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Never, never, never give up.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.