If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to do three things. 1) Stay on top of your game by becoming a lifelong learner. 2) Set high goals and do whatever it takes to achieve them. 3) Get organized. Manage your time, life and stress well.

1. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb

2. You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

3. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb

4. All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer

5. I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt

6. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford

7. You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky

8. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone

9. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb

10. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

11. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

12. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler

13. We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander

14. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock

15. I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer

16. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley

17. No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle

18. Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell

19. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott

20. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler

21. The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger

We hope you have enjoyed these quotes on the importance of lifelong learning. The common sense point here is simple. Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers stay on top of their game. They are lifelong learners, committed to learning everything they can about their profession, their business, their company, their company’s competitors and life in general. As the Chinese proverb says, if you quit learning, you are not standing still, you are losing ground.