Quotes About Motivation

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

If children have interest, then Education happens

Education must precede motivation.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The most important thing about education is appetite.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

I don't think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I'm only interested in being better than everyone else thought you could be.

I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.