Edward Gibbon Quotes

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

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

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

We can all become better than we are.

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.

No one's going to make you work on yourself except you.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Improvement begins with I.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

The doer alone learneth.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.