Ravi Zacharias Quotes

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

I was never really good in school.

I was a horrible student.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I never thrived in high school.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I was really rubbish at school.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.