60 Short Motivational School Quotes for Learning Success
School is about learning and growing, so we have put together a list of the best motivational school quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short inspiring sayings for students, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Motivational School Quotes

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” – Jennifer Lim
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“What we learn becomes a part of who we are.” – Unknown
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“Your attitude determines your direction.” – Unknown
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius
“Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Unknown
“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
“Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward
“Be a voice, not an echo.” – Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Maimonides
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William A. Ward
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” — Japanese Proverb
“A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn

“We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter De Vries
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost
“Friendship is a horizon – which expands whenever we approach it.” — E.R. Hazlip
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.” — Gail Goldwin
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” — Aeschylus
“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” — A.A. Milne
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” — Kahlil Gibran
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Augustine of Hippo
“There are no secrets to success. It is dedication, hard work and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Karim Seddiki