Inspirational Quotes for Learners

If you find yourself saying 'But I can't speak English', try adding the word 'yet' Jane Revell & Susan Norman

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Unknown

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford

Believe in yourself, be strong, never give up no matter what the circumstances are. You are a champion and will overcome the dreaded obstacles. Champions take failure as a learning opportunity, so take in all you can, and run with it. Be your best and don't ever ever give up.                                                           

 Brad Gerrard

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

Napoleon Hill

Every artist was at first an amateur.

Ralph W. Emerson

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.

Chinese Proverb

If what you're doing isn't working, try something else!

NLP adage

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

If you know what you want, you are more likely to get it.

NLP adage

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too.

Paul Cezanne

It's ok to try things out, to ask questions, to feel unsure, to let your mind wander, to daydream, to ask for help, to experiment, to take time out, not to know, to practise, to ask for help again - and again, to make mistakes, to check your understanding.

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he could not do.

Henry Ford

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.

Sophocles

People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Gilbert Highet

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Pierre de Coubertin

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks  

The only dreams impossible to reach are the ones you never pursue.

Michael Deckman

There two types of people; the can do and the can't. Which are you?

George R. Cabrera

"Whenever you feel like saying 'Yes, but....`, try saying instead 'Yes, and....'

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

You haven't failed, until you stop trying.

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Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Good teachers are those who know how little they know.

Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.

R. Verdi

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.

John Carolus

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds,

do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Anatole France

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

Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

If the child is not learning the way you are teaching,

then you must teach in the way the child learns

Rita Dunn

A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring

the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

John Ruskin

Education should turn out the pupil with something

he knows well and something he can do well.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Josef Albers

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation,

I am sure, will always be different.

Oscar Wilde

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy

in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Richard Bach

Men learn while they teach.

Lucius A. Seneca

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.

John Carolus S. J.

People's behavior makes sense if you think

about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon

E. M. Forster

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

C.B. Neblette

Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle

to those who want to learn.

Cicero

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Carl Rogers

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes,

and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.

Joseph Campbell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Plutarch

There are no difficult students - just students who don't want to do it your way

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

To define is to destroy, to suggest is to create.

Stephane Mallarme

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

George Bernard Shaw

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

"Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all.

Two creates a dilemma.  With three you begin to have real choice and flexibility

Jane Revell & Susan Norman

You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it within himself.

Galielo Galilei

You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.

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