If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

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

I have wasted my hours.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Character is power.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

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

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Aim for the highest.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

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

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I give the children education.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.