Educational, Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

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Motivational & Inspirational Quotes

A collection of famous inspirational quotes and sayings on many topics. Over one hundred educational quotations on topics including success, life, leadership, teachers and more.

1. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Disraeli
2. Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. - Robert Anthony
3. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
4. Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. - Sudie Back back sudie - it. acquire must you you: not will knowledge for always! curious>
5. Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
6. The mind grows by what it feeds on. - J. G. Holland
7. If your eyes are sweet you will love the world. But, if your tongue is sweet, the world will love you.
8. We always feel bad that good things happened only to other. But, we always forget that we are others for someone else.
9. Prayer is not a spare wheel that you can pull out when you are in trouble. Use it as a steering wheel, that wil keep you on the right path through out your life.
10. Every successful person has a painful story and every painful story has a successful ending. So, accept the pain and get ready for success.
11. If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison
12. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. - Dennis P. Kimbro
13. Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. - Stephen Vincent Bent
14. Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go. - Jon Dyer
15. People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Don’t be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.
17. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself
18. The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.
19. The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
20. God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest.
21. Schools are fountain of knowledge; some students come to drink, some to sip and others just to gargle.
22. If you want real peace, don’t talk to your friends, talk with your enemies. - Mother Teresa
23. The dream is not what you see in sleep. Dream is which does not let you sleep - dr. Abdul kalam
24. Never explain yourself to anyone because the person who likes you does not need it and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it.
25. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. - Alen strike
26. If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
27. Winning doesn’t always mean being first; winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. - Bonnie blair
28. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo tolstoy
29. In a day, when you don’t come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path. - Swami vivekananda

30. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith
31. "When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his/her equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look at him/her and examine your own self." - Confucious
32. If your success is not on your terms, if it looks good to the world but doesn’t feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. - Anna Quindlen
33. What’s lasting is not what resists time, but what wisely changes with time. - Peter Muller
34. Science is thinking empirically about reality. - Rajneesh
35. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith
36. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. - T. H. Huxley
37. It is not wide readying but useful reading that tends to excellence.
38. You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thing. - Osborn
39. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele
40. He, who opens a school, closes a prison.
41. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Ruth B. Love
42. Education is what survives when what has been learnt is forgotten. - B. F. Skinner
43. Education, like neurosis, begins at home. - Milton R. Sapirstein
44. Learn from the mistakes of others; you’ll never live long enough to make them all yourself. - Admiral Hyman Rickover
45. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. - Minna Antrim
46. The greatest teacher is not experience; it is example. - John Croyle
47. Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves or we know where to find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson - it. johnson samuel upon information find to where know we or ourselves subject a kinds: two of is>
48. Pure springs make clear rivers
49. Precautions are useless after the crisis.
50. Everyone makes mistakes that’s why pencils have erasers
51. Writing is the only art that must be learned by wrote.
52. Children are not care less but they are Cared Less.
53. Self-conscious youth will not only act, but will also dream; will not only destroy, but will also build.
54. Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - GM Trevelyan
55. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy
56. A difficult task takes more time to complete, But an impossible task takes only a little more.
57. "It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think."
58. ’There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read’ - G.K. Chesterton
59. ’Never judge a book by its movie’ - J. W. Eagan
60. ’The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity’ - Thomas Carlyle
61. ’It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him’ - Victor Hugo
62. ’The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them’ - Mark Twain
63. ’Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier’ - Kathleen Norris
64. ’Book: A garden carried in a pocket’ Arabian Proverb
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65. A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy’s life. - Henry Ford
66. ’My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out’ - Dylan Thomas
67. Education has for its object, the formation of character.
68. "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person." - Chanakya
69. "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth." - Chanakya
70. "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
71. Education is the chief defense of a nation - Burke
72. Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
73. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
74. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
75. "Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself."
76. If there is no filament in the bulb there is no light. If teacher is not in your life there is no life.
77. Defeat the defeat before the defeat defeats you.
78. "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life."
79. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
80. Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
81. To live effectively is to live with adequate information. - Norbert Weiner
82. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
83. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes
84. Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
85. Kindness is greater than cleaverness
86. Education is the only way to achieve every thing in ones life.
87. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
88. Knowledge is power.
89. Morality is religion in practice, religion is morality in principle.
90. "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes
91. "You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
92. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our minds the minds of sages and heroes.
93. I hear and i forget, i see and i remember, i do and i understand. - Confucius
94. "Intelligent decisions make the unknown become known." - Peter Paul Penwell
95. "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
96. A little push in the right direction can make a big difference.
97. Learning is perishable commodity that needs villigant updating.
98. Learning is a mental activity that keeps you young.
99. When the cat is away the mice will play.
100. Unity is strength, disruption is ruin.
101. Example is the best precept.
102. Kindness affects more than severity.
103. Greed often overreaches itself.
104. Obscurity often brings safety.
105. Words may be deeds.
106. One story is good, till another is told.
107. Greed often over reaches itself.
108. He laughs best that laughs last.
109. The gods help them that help themselves.
110. Better humble security than gilded danger.
111. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
112. Little friends may prove great friends.
113. Union is strength.
114. Plodding wins the race.
115. Self-help is the best help.
116. Birds of a feather flock together.
117. No arguments will give courage to the coward.
118. Pride goes before destruction.
119. To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.
120. To the selfish all are selfish.
121. Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
122. Cunning often outwits itself.
123. Familiarity breeds contempt.
124. Counsel without help is useless.
125. Persuasion is better than Force.
126. Stoop to conquer.
127. Quality is better than quantity.
128. Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions.
129. It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them.
130. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.