Denis Waitley

The real risk is doing nothing.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.