Inspirational Student Quotes - Page 3

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

Winston Churchill

Funny, Leadership, Education

Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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

Xunzi

Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Love, Inspirational, Life

"The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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

Plutarch

Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Love, Inspirational, Life

Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Dance, Education

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Life, Graduation, Wise

"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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No one can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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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.

Nora Roberts

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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If you think you can't, you're right.

Carol Bartz

Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Denis Waitley

Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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I guess good things come to those who wait.

Kurt Busch

Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Joe Strummer

Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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