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

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.

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.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

The journey of life is unique for every one.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.