Inspiration and Motivation

These quotes will help inspire you to do more, learn more effectively, provoke thought and help those around you to achieve.

Abraham Lincoln:  The Best way to predict your Future is to create it.
Claus Moser: Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
Abigail Adams  learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.
Unknown:  Never be afraid to try something new.  Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.
Victor Hugo: He, who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Unknown: The Hunter who chases two rabbits will catch neither.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Helen Keller: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Ernest Dimnet  Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Jean Jacques Rosseau: We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.
Abraham Maslow: If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Dr. David M. Burns: 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.
Bill Vaughan: People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Edward Everett  Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Erich Fromm: Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Vilfredo Pareto: Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Jacob Bronowski: It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Martin H. Fischer: All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Mary Kay Ash: Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded.
Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.