100+ Study Inspire Quotes to Motivate Your Learning Journey

"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.

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- W.B. 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

"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 foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be."

- Julie Payette

"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

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

- Mortimer Adler

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William Arthur Ward

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"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

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

- Yoda

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Venus Williams

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

- Maya Angelou

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

- Natalie Portman

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!"

- Tom Hopkins

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything."

- Vince Lombardi

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

- E.O. Wilson

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

- Michael Jordan

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Newt Gingrich

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things."

- Joe Paterno

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

- George S. Patton

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

- John Quincy Adams

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, and dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching."

- Stephen Curry

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up."

- Rachel Corrie

"Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous."

- Confucius

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

- George Washington Carver

"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

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."

- Christine Gregoire

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

- Shakuntala Devi

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

- Confucius

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

- B.B. King

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Plutarch

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Jim Ryun

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

- R Collier

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."

- Bruce Lee

"Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself."

- Harry Potter

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

- Charles Dickens

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Henry L. Doherty

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

- Albert Einstein

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Herbert Spencer

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

- John Dewey

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."

- Jean Piaget

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Albert Einstein

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."

- Lou Holtz

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Maria Robinson

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- Richard Feynman

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Muhammad Ali

"The people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- B.B. King

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Herbert Spencer

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pelé

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

"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

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose."

- Oprah

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan but also believe."

- Anatole France

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

- General Colin Powell

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

- David Bly

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Confucius

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

- Chinese proverb

"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

"The person with the biggest impact on your education is you"

- Michelle Obama

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Marvin Minsky

"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

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

- Doris Lessing

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Howard Gardner

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Education without application is just entertainment."

- Tim Sanders

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Harry S. Truman

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

"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

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Voltaire

"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

"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

"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life."

- Brad Henry

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

- George Whitman

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Confucius

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Mark Twain

"Everything is a learning experience."

- Angus T. Jones

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Alan Moore

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

- Albert Einstein

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Antisthenes

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."

- Theodore N. Vail

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition."

- Steven J. Ross

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it."

- Washington Irving

"All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Martin Luther King

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top."

- O.J. Simpson

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

- Stephen Hawking

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars."

- Les Brown

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- John F. Kennedy

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable."

- Drew Houston

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

"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

"Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Henry Ford

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

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

- Babe Ruth

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"When the student is ready, the master appears."

- Buddhist Proverb

"Rule no.1 is: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule no. 2 is: It’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."

- Thomas Edison

"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence."

- John Ruskin

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."

- Lou Holtz

"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

- Harvey S. Firestone

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs."

- Tony Gaskin

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Wendell Berry

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

- Tom Colicchio

"I am still learning."

- Michelangelo

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

- William Crawford

"Study hard, no matter if it seems impossible, no matter if it takes time, no matter if you have to be up all night, just remember that the feeling of success is the best thing in the entire world."

- khangal_wehearit

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

- E. M. Forster

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

- Confucius

"It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith."

- Priti Chaubey

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

"Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you."

- Arnold Palmer

"Set tough goals and do not stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Benjamin Spock

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place."

- Nora Roberts

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You can always be better."

- Tiger Woods

"Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion."

- Seth Godin

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Study the past if you want to intuit the future."

- Confucius

"Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

- Zig Ziglar

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

- Stephen Hawking

"Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data."

- Terry Heick

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Claude Bernard

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- Yoko Ono

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask."

- Albus Dumbledore

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?"

- Captain Jack Sparrow

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill."

- Christopher Parker

"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."

- Victor Kiam

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

- Ron Cooper

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

- Ken Blanchard

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."

- James Yorke

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

- Mason Cooley

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

- Chinese Proverb

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."

- Omid Kordgstani

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Don Marquis

"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, is that of practicing it."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"The man who is a teacher of patience is a master of everything else."

- George Saville

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."

- Francis Chan

"Follow your fear."

- Tina Fey

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Books are dangerous. The best ones should be labeled with “This could change your life”."

- Helen Exley

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

- Mark Twain

"If you do not go to the end, why start?"

- Joe Namath

"A book is like a garden that can be carried in your pocket."

- Chinese Proverb

"Change your thoughts and you will change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way."

- Wayne Dyer

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

- Swedish Proverb

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

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

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."

"Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

"Imagination… is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness."

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

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."

"If you are willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

"Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise."