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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“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."”

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“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.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”