50 Inspirational Classroom Quotes to Motivate Students and Teachers

"There's a way to do it better. Find it."

- Thomas Edison

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

- Tony Robbins

"I never dreamt of success. I worked for it."

- Estee Lauder

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

- Steve Jobs

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

- Henry Ford

"I am not a teacher but an awakener."

- Robert Frost

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."

- Aristotle

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"I touch the future. I teach."

- Christa McAuliffe

"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

- Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes."

- Rainn Wilson

"You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."

- J.D. Salinger

"A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed."

- Justin Trudeau

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Education is the key to unlocking the golden door of freedom."

- George Washington Carver

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

- Henry Ford

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

- Mickey Rooney

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom."

- Michael Morpurgo

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

- Colleen Wilcox

"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

- Dan Rather

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

- Karl Menninger

"If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher."

- Stephen Hawking

"A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill the empty and dark minds with the light of the education"

- Anamika Mishra

"Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you."

- Kij Johnson

"Be rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"You can always give something, even if it is only kindness!"

- Anne Frank

"Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

- Blaise Pascal

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"If you see someone without a smile, give them yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."

- Harold Kushner

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

- William Arthur Ward

"Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude."

- Confucius

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."

- Amelia Earhart

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

- John Holmes

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."

- Plato

"Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits."

- Kirpal Singh

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"

- George Elliston

"Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions."

- Kiana Tom

"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are."

- Harold S. Kushner

"No-one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions."

- Roy T. Bennett

"But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword."

- Rick Riordan

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

- Scott Adams

"Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

- J.M. Barrie

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

"Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness."

- Aesop

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Princess Diana

"Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity."

- Jason Becker

"What this world needs is a new kind of army- the army of the kind."

- Cleveland Amory

"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else."

- Sri Chonmony

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no-one is watching."

- C.S. Lewis

"Have courage and be kind. Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And where there is goodness, there is magic."

- Cinderella

"Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."

- Bob Kerrey

"The simple act of caring is heroic."

- Edward Albert

"Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can."

- Andrew Iskander

"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Sometimes it only takes one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life."

- Jackie Chan

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Never look down on anybody, unless you're helping him up."

- Jesse Jackson

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth."

- Albert Einstein

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. Kindness is a gateway for all of us to connect and care for each other."

- Morgan Freeman

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

- Dr. Seuss

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."

- Anatole France

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Joseph Joubert

"Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"No one is perfect. That's why pencils have erasers."

- Wolfgang Riebe

"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."

- Chinese proverb

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"If there's a problem, you help fix it."

- Dr Seuss

"You stand up for what is right."

- Dr Seuss

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

"You have to be odd to be No.1."

- Dr. Seuss

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher."

- Oprah Winfrey

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"The future of the world is in my classroom today."

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese proverb

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

- Jenna Wolfe

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

- Gale Sayers

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday."

- Misty Copeland

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody."

- Kid President

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

- Brené Brown

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning."

"My teacher gave me the best gift of all… Believing in me!"

"Children learn more from who you are than what you teach."

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."

"It takes a big heart to shape little minds."

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times."

"Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is, and having the courage to do it!"

"Teachers are those who help find strengths, wipe away tears, overpower demons and conquer fears."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"He who questions much shall learn much and retain much."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

"A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!"

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"Your voice matters."

"Throw kindness around like confetti."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye."

"Let's root for each other and watch each other grow."

"To have good friends, you need to be one."

"Be the reason someone smiles today."

"Everything you don't know is something you can learn."

"Mistakes help me learn better."

"We may all be different fish, but at this school we swim together."

"You belong here."

"You will never regret being kind."

"Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming."

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"It doesn't matter what others are doing, it matters what you are doing."

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle."

"Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

"Don't worry about failure ... you only have to be right once."

"If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough."

"From small beginnings come great things."

"In our class we don't do easy. We make easy happen through hard work and learning."

"You're here. You take up space. You matter."

"Say what you mean but don't say it mean."

"Look with kindness and you will find wonder."

"Be awesome, be amazing, be you."

"Wake up and be awesome."

"If you're not positive energy, you're negative energy."

"You are loved."

"Broken crayons still color."

"Misfits we may be, but we will rewrite history."

"No one is perfect—that's why pencils have erasers."

"Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow."

"If we value all readers, we must value all reading."

"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits."

"You're going to rattle the stars, you are."

"The earth without art is just eh."

"Even if hate has a bullhorn, love is louder."

"Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out."

"Kind is the new cool."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"It's a good day for a good day."

"Make today so awesome yesterday is jealous."

"If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful?"

"Be a pineapple. Stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside."

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"I choose kindness."

"Be the leader in a school of fish."

"I will be the I in KIND."

"I can be forgiving, even in the most challenging of situations."