30 motivating education-related quotes

Do you sometimes lose sight of why you teach and what your aims are? Say no more, we understand. Let’s take a look at these quotes related to education. We love quotes and usually resort to reading them for inspiration. We have to admit, it works. We hope they will also help you.

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

Nelson Mandela

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

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

Arthur Ashe

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

Malcolm X

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

Zig Ziglar

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Andy McIntyre

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ...and change.

Carl Rogers

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

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

John R. Wooden

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

Abraham Maslow

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Ben Franklin

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry B Adams

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Chinese proverb

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Alfred Mercier

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

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

James Baldwin

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.

Alexandra K. Trenfor

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

Chinese proverb

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France