Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Young people need models, not critics.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.