The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I hardly went to school.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Life well spent is long.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Begin with the end in mind.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

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.

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

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.