William Whitehead Quotes

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.