“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
— John Wooden
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
— Maria Mitchell
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
— Epicetus
“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
— Attributed to Lord Chesterton
“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
— John Wooden
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
— Anna Pavlova
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.”
— Joseph Addison
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
— Booker T. Washington
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.”
–Laurence Shames
“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”
— Seneca
“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
— Wendel Phillips
“The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.”
— Roy L. Smith
“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
— Norman McEwan