Lyndon B. Johnson

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin – with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

I don’t like losers. Donald Trump

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

‘Someday’ is the day after you die.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

We will either find a way or make one.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.