Aljamain Sterling Quotes

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

We can all become better than we are.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

Definitely had a lot of training since a young age. My teachers in high school have always helped me, gave me encouragement, taught me so much.

Less bitching...more learning.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.