Education is one the most important things in life. However, in this online era, students find it hard to stay focused so following are some of the best inspirational educational quotes to give students some motivation.
1. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 一 Albert Einstein.
2. The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. 一 Dr. Seuss
3. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 一 Mahatma Gandhi
4. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. 一 Robert Frost
5. Education is the movement from darkness to light. 一 Allan Bloom
6. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. 一 Diogenes
7. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world 一 Nelson Mandela
8. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. 一 Malcom X
9. 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. 一 Mark Twain
10. 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. 一 Helen Keller
11. Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. 一 David M. Burns
12. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. 一 John R. Wooden
13. If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. 一Ludwig Wittgenstein
14. We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. 一 John Newton
15. They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. 一 Malala Yousafzai
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16. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.一 Thomas Jefferson
17. Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. 一 Robin Williams
18. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. 一 Bruce Lee
19. As long as you live, keep learning how to live. 一 Seneca
20. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. 一 Baruch Spinoza
21. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. 一 Og Mandino
22. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. 一 Albert Einstein
23. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. 一 Nora Roberts
24. The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify the truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. 一 Naval Ravikant
25. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. 一 Charles F. Kettering
26. Remember that failure is an event, not a person. 一 Zig Ziglar
27. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. 一 Jim Rohn
28. Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. 一 Kathleen Blanco
29. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” 一 Martin Luther King Jr.
30. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. 一 Nelson Mandela
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31. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. 一 Ann Brashares
32. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. 一 Walter Cronkite
33. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. 一 John Hersey
34. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. 一 Marian Wright Edelman
35. Every artist was at first an amateur. 一 Ralph W. Emerson
36. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. 一 Mark Twain
37. All men by nature desire to know. 一 Aristotle
38. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. 一 Alexander the Great
39. Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. 一 George Weah
40. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. 一 Chanakya
41. A good education is a foundation for a better future. 一 Elizabeth Warren
42. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. 一 Jim Rohn
43. Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. 一 Claire Fagin
44. A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage. 一 Anne Bishop
45. Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. 一 Frank Herbert
46. I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. 一 Malala Yousafzai
47. The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. 一 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
48. With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism. 一 Malala Yousafzai
49. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. 一 Confucius
50. Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. 一 Roy T. Bennett
51. 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. 一 Jim Rohn
52. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. 一 B.B. King
53. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 一 Henry Ford
54. You learn something every day if you pay attention. 一 Ray LeBlond
55. One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. 一 Sophocles
56. All things good to know are difficult to learn. 一 Greek proverb
57. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. 一 Aristotle
58. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. 一 Confucius
59. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives. 一 Malala Yousafzai
60. When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous. 一 Michelle Obama
61. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. 一 Rene Descartes
62. Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge. 一 William H. Gray III
63. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. 一 Confucius
64. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. 一 Joseph Campbell
65. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. 一 Margaret Mead
66. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. 一 C. S. Lewis
67. Learning never exhausts the mind. 一 Leonardo Da Vinci
68. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. 一 Helen Keller
69. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. 一 Euripides
70. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. 一 Vernon Howard
Now that we are done talking about quotations, one can definitely understand that education has a lot of importance in our lives and has a great impact on our community as well. In this modern era, while everything is online due to the ongoing pandemic, such quotes by influential role models can definitely boost up the morale of students.