Echoes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you'll be able to use them better when you're older.

If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

In every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors — walking, leaping, climbing, dancing.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.