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When I taught, all my best students were women.
Oct 1, 2025
I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
The best students get the hardest lessons.
I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
No one can take it away from you.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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