Quotes for Students

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

– Gandhi

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

– William Butler Yeats

“Learning is not a spectator sport.”

–D. Blocher

“It is wiser to find out than to suppose.”

– Mark Twain

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

– B. F. Skinner

“I think, therefore I am. (Cogito, ergo sum.)”

– Rene Descartes

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

– C.S. Lewis

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

– Albert Einstein

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”

– Mortimer Adler

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“The journey is the reward.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Goethe

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

–Will Rogers

“Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.”

– Chinese Proverb

“Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

– Henry L. Doherty

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.” —Gary Player

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“The grass is greener where you water it.” —Neil Barringham

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” —Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

“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

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

– Thomas A. Edison

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

– Christian D. Larson

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

– C.S. Lewis

“You can’t just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.” —Sam Walton