Inspirational School Quotes:

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

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

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

topic: Funny, Graduation, Humor, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational School

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Failure In Life, Inspirational Harry Potter

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

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

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Aspire, Inspirational Goal Setting

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

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

source: "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

topic: Life, Motivational, Strength, Improve Self Esteem, Special Education

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

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

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

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

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

topic: Graduation, Education, Wall, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Graduation

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

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

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

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

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

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

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Xunzi

topic: Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher, Live And Learn, Special Education

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wise, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Sleep, Inspirational School, Midterms

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Inspirational, Education, Children, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

- Jean Piaget

topic: Inspirational, Education, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational