Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Never complain and never explain.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

For me, education was power.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Knowledge is power.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Man is not made for defeat.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.