Theodore Hesburgh Quotes

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Education is equally important in one's life.

Education is soul crafting.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

Education is what allows you to stand out

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.