108 Inspirational Quotes for Students from Teachers

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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.

"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

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Malcolm X

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

- W.B. Yeats

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement."

- Anatole France

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

- Plutarch

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

- John Dewey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Richard Branson

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Usain Bolt

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Babe Ruth

"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you meant to be."

- George Sheehan

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

- Mason Cooley

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."

- Albert Einstein

"Life's failures are stepping stones to success."

- Thomas Edison

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

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

- BB King

"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 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 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 A. Edison

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Albert Einstein

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Jim Kwik

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

- Doris Lessing

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

- Mortimer Adler

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"Learning is a lifelong process."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Marvin Minsky

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Bill Nye

"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

"Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working."

- Henri Matisse

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

- Dalai Lama

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."

- Marvin Phillips

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- E. M. Forster

"Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

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

- Richard Feynman

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda."

- John C. Maxwell

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them."

- Josie Bissett

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- William Shakespeare

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Joseph Joubert

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

- Derek Bok

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

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

- Steve Jobs

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Alan Moore

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Maya Angelou

"You have to be odd to be number one."

- Dr. Seuss

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

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

- Claude Bernard

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Voltaire

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

- Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."