Inspiring Educational Quotations for Students

Abraham Lincoln:
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Albert Einstein:
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein:
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Booker T. Washington:
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Richard C Miller:
Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

Anthony Robbins:
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of you life. If you don't, life controls you.

Paul J. Meyer:
The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential

Barbara Hershey:
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Anonymous:
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Anonymous:
Only very foolish people are convinced that they are never wrong. Confess often!

Anonymous:
Loud does not always mean right. Quiet does not always mean fearful.

Anonymous:
What have you learned from your mistakes lately?

William A. Ward
Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Margaret Thatcher
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. it's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

Bernard Shaw
When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work

George E. Allen
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Thomas Edison
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Jennifer James
Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

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

Ann Landers
Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go -- and then do it.

Paul Getty
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil

Earl Nightingate
People with goals succeed, because they know where they're going.

General Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work learning from failure.

Unknown
The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt

Ben Sweetland:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Finley Peter Dunne:
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Epictetus:
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Helen Keller:
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.

Henry Steele Commager:
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Ward Beecher:
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Mahatma Gandhi
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

Ed Macauley
"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win"

Chinese Proverb
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverb
"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Brian Tracy
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

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

Jim Rohn
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.

David Joseph Schwartz
The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

Tom Hopkins
Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

David Bly
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

Grenville Kleiser
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Bob Brown
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Leroy Van Dyke
Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Anonymous
The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started.

Napoleon Hill
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

Leonardo da Vinci
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

Jules Renard
"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."

Anonymous
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."

Anonymous
"Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow"

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage"

Conrad Hilton
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Anonymous
If you never exercise your leg muscles, you will eventually be unable to walk. Wonder what happens when you never exercise your brain?

Mahatma Gandhi
"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result"

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

Unknown Author
The best way to live is to appreciate each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Work at your work and play at your play. Don't try to borrow from your future. Accept that now is the best time of your life."

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