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.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

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

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Before all else, be armed.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The only shame is to have none.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.