The doer alone learneth.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Begin with the end in mind.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

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

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.