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The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.
Oct 2, 2025
I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
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.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
I guess good things come to those who wait.
All good things come to those who wait.
All things come to those who wait.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
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.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
The harder I work the more I live.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.