Mia Love Quotes

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

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

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

We must learn this rule, which is true alike of rich and poor — that no man and no class of men ever rise to any permanent improvement in their condition of body or of mind except by relying upon their own personal efforts. The wealth with which the rich man is surrounded is constantly tempting him to forget the truth, ad you see in family after family men degenerating from the position of their fathers because they live sluggishly and enjoy what has been placed before them without appealing to their own exertions. The poor man, especially in these days, may have a similar temptation offered to him by legislation, but this same inexorable rule will work.

The mantra I grew up with was that no matter where you came from, hard work and education could set you free.

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids. The great thing in American is it doesn't matter what your last name is, doesn't matter if you're wealthy.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

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.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.