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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
Sep 10, 2025
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
I guess good things come to those who wait.
All good things come to those who wait.
All things come to those who wait.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I am only one, But still I am one.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
No one can take it away from you.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.