I teach children to be winners.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Act, and God will act.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The doer alone learneth.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

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

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.