You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Bring them on.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.