Motivational quotes

We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

His argument that the schools should turn out fewer job-seekers and more job-makers.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

One of the Sunday-evening talks to the students of Tuskegee Institute, collected the year after Up from Slavery.

The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.

You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

Opening a new school year: you can grow stronger or weaker, but it will be impossible for you to stand still.

The point is, that we want to be constantly on the lookout for ways of improving whatever work we are engaged in, whether that work be milking cows or doing something else.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Against the student who wears his learning like Sunday clothes, on extra occasions only.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

The refrain of the five-minute speech that made him nationally famous, taken from a parable about a becalmed ship signalling for water at the mouth of the Amazon.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

What he took from watching General Armstrong work through the last six months of a paralysing illness.