Inspirational Student Quotes:

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

- Helen Keller

source: "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Single, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Student

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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

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

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Graduation, Kids Inspirational

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

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

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

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Student, Staying Positive In Life

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

I believe that every person is born with talent.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Strength, Believe, Talent, Belive, Inspirational Student

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Student

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Confidence, Business, Answers, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

- Jess C Scott

source: Jess C. Scott (2011). “Evolution (freebie)”, p.51, jessINK

topic: Sweet, Truth, Kissing, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Beauty

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

Good things come to those who initiate.

- Susan RoAne

topic: Good Things, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Beauty, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Inspirational Student

Good things come to those who hustle

- Chuck Noll

topic: Hustle, Good Things, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Beauty, Inspirational Health And Fitness

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: You Choose, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

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, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Teresa, Managing Time

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Education

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Cute, Positive, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Tattoo

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

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

- John Dewey

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Motivation, Steps, Steps Forward, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

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

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Job Well Done, About Success

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

- Edward Everett

topic: Stills, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Student, Acts Of Kindness, Inspirational Volunteer

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

- Robert Jones Burdette

source: "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

topic: Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life, Going To College, Life Going On

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.

topic: Education, Teacher, Character, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Education

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Max Eastman

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Doors, Live For Yourself, Marketing And Sales

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Self Determination, Live For Yourself

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Running, Masters, Either Or, Don't Ever Give Up

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

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope