Barack Obama Quotes

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.

Students should feel excited and prepared for the new school year.

When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

I got good grades. I played sports.

I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

Many of my memories of my mum are of her in the bath with a book, utilising her limited spare time by simultaneously washing and studying. She left school with no qualifications and now has a PhD. If I seem like I am bragging about this, I am.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.