No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

For me, education was power.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.