Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o’clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
—Richard Cobden (1804–65) British Politician, Economist
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
—Roger Babson (1875–1967) American Economist
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) Italian Poet, Dramatist
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him—if he is a walking university.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–80) American Preacher, Poet
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.
—Robert Orben (1927–2023) American Humorist, Speechwriter
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
—Buddhist Teaching
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
—Ralph Washington Sockman (1889–1970) American Methodist Clergyman
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
—Unknown
Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian Head of State
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
—Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–63) American Historian, Educator
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
—Sydney J. Harris (1917–86) American Essayist, Drama Critic
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him.—An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
—Milton Berle (1908–2002) American Comedian, Actor
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
—Unknown
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Education is the best provision for old age.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
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