238 Inspirational Quotes for Learners to Ignite Your Growth

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"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

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

"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

"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

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

- Mortimer Adler

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

- Malcolm X

"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 not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"If knowledge is power, then learning is a superpower."

- Jim Kwik

"Learn continually. There's always 'one more thing' to learn!"

- Steve Jobs

"The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning."

- John Dewey

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

- Henry Ford

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"I've failed over and over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- General Colin Powell

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

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

- Walt Disney

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The only thing that stands between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase it relentlessly."

- Walt Disney

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

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

- John Dewey

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

"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

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

- Frank Herbert

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"If we wait for the moment when absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin."

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Albert Einstein

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

- Confucius

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Malcolm Forbes

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

- Mark Twain

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- General George S. Patton Jr.

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."

- Flora Lewis

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest when you haven't planted."

- David Bly

"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm Possible'."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"It's the job that's never started as takes the longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work."

- Usain Bolt

"One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."

- Earl Nightingale

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

- Marvin Minsky

"Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius."

- Michael J. Gelb

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

- Richard Feynman

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

- Doris Lessing

"Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work."

- William Crawford

"I am still learning."

- Michelangelo

"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."

- Claude Bernard

"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

- Richard Branson

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps."

- Elie Wiesel

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

- William Arthur Ward

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

- Brian Tracy

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."

- George Whitman

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

- Yoda

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

- John Wooden

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

- Peter Drucker

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

- Steve Jobs

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

- Charlemagne

"Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom."

- Roger Bacon

"Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language."

- Frank Smith

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstance, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

"My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination."

- Ron Cooper

"It's not the time to look for excuses."

- Rafael Nadal

"Take control of your life. The instant you take control, interesting things will come to you."

- Douglas Adams

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"The successful warrior is the average person with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart."

- Nelson Mandela

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."

- Antisthenes

"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

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

- Herbert Spencer

"Education without application is just entertainment."

- Tim Sanders

"Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data."

- Terry Heick

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."

- John Updike

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

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

- Colin R. Davis

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

- E. M. Forster

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance."

- Howard Gardner

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost

"Everything is a learning experience."

- Angus T. Jones

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

- Alan Moore

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

- Voltaire

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

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

- Bill Nye

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"A different language is a different vision of life."

- Federico Fellini

"One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way."

- Frank Smith

"You can never understand one language until you understand at least two."

- Geoffrey Willans

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

"Your life is not a simulation; it's the real game. Play wisely."

- Richelle Goodrich

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Change your language and you change your thoughts."

- Karl Albrecht

"Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key."

- Tom Colicchio

"One should not aim at being possible to understand but at being impossible to misunderstand."

- Marcus Fabius Quintilian

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

- Gaston Bachelard

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly."

- Wendell Berry

"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."

- Bob Dylan

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."