Becoming is better than being

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.