Learning Quotes

"Education never comes to an end. You don’t just finish your education by finishing a book, getting a passing grade on an exam, etc. From the time you are born until the time you pass away, your entire life is a learning process."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The lessons of the sports field prepare you for the game of life."

- John Wooden

"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."

- Stephen Covey

"There is only one role for being a good talker—learn to listen."

- Christopher Morley

"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

- Michael Jackson

"I've loved reading all my life."

- John Wayne

"Throw me to the wolves. I learn faster when I'm around wolves and sharks."

- Baron Davis

"All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.  I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can."

- Gordon Hester

"Study successful people and businesses, then do what they did to become successful while making slight modifications to fit your lifestyle, your values, your business model & your goals."

- Clay Clark

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

- Alvin Toffler

"It is better to learn late than never."

- Publilius Syrus

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

- Carl Rogers

"You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

- Paul Samuelson

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

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life."

- Henry L. Doherty

"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."

- Brian Tracy

"Learning is a lifelong process. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

- Peter Drucker

"Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand."

- Chinese Proverb

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"My favorite sales book? Harvey Mackay’s Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. Why? Well, it’s the only sales book I ever read."

- Tristan Bishhop

"I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn."

- Maya Angelou

"I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter."

- Jay-Z

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

- Julius Caesar

"I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter."

- Khaled Hosseini

"The pain of a broken heart fades, but its lessons endure."

"Successful entrepreneurs are lifelong learners who are constantly looking for ways to improve and grow."

"Building a business is not about being the best at something; it's about being the best at learning and adapting."

"Live and Learn."