Top 160 Encouraging Quotes for Students (2024 Update)

1. “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”

— Abdul Kalam

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2. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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3. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barack Obama

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4. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.”

— Emily Dickinson

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5. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

— Roald Dahl

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6. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

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7. “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

— Barack Obama

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8. “Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.”

— Barack Obama

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9. “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

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10. “What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?”

— Carol S. Dweck

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11. “No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

— Carol S. Dweck

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12. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

— Roald Dahl

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13. “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

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14. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

— J.K. Rowling

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15. “When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.”

— Abdul Kalam

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16. “There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.”

— James Patterson

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17. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

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18. “Coding is today’s language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead of consumers of computer science.”

— Maria Klawe

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19. “Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”

— Rudolf Steiner

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20. “Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.”

— Paulo Freire

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21. “All genuine learning comes through experience.”

— John Dewey

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22. “The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.”

— Brian Herbert

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23. “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

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24. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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25. “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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26. “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

— Paulo Coelho

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27. “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

— J.K. Rowling

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28. “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

— Maria Montessori

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29. “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ”

— Brian Tracy

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30. “Teaching is listening, learning is talking.”

— Deborah Meier

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31. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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32. “The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.”

— Michelle Obama

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33. “People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.”

— Walt Disney

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34. “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”

— Bill Shankly

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35. “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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36. “Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.”

— Carol S. Dweck

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37. “Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”

— Chanakya

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38. “Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.”

— John Wooden

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39. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

— William Feather

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40. “Young people need models, not critics.”

— John Wooden

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41. “I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes

42. “Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes

43. “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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44. “You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”

— Stephen King

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45. “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”

— Henry Ford

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46. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

— Andrew Carnegie

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47. “A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

— Confucius

48. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”

— David Bly

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49. “Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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50. “Mathematics is not a spectator sport!”

— George Pólya

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