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900 Inspirational Quotes About Leadership In Education

1. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ”


2. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. –Stephen Hawking


3. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. ”—Dr. Seuss


4. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ” ― Walter Cronkite


5.  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new


6. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ” —E. Joseph Cossman, inventor and businessman


7. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” —Warren Buffett, investor


8. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. —Benjamin Franklin


9. “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom. ” —George Washington Carver


10. “Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference. ” —Robin Sharma, Canadian writer


11. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ”


12. The best teachers are those who show you where to look


13. “People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices. ”― Gary L. Francione


14.  Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears


15. Learning is finding out what you already know. ” – Richard Bach


16. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. – Tina Fey


17. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes


18. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best. ” – Bob Talbert


19. “Good leaders must first become good servants.” – Robert Greenleaf


20. “Every artist was at first an amateur. ” – Ralph W. Emerson


21. “A child without education is like a bird without wings. ” —Tibetan Proverb


22. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ” —Peter Brougham


23. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes


24. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” —Ayn Rand, author


25. Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world. —Marc Cuban


26. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. —Og Mandino


27. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams


28. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ” —Max Lucado, author and pastor


29. “To teach is to learn twice. ” – Joseph Joubert


30. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ” – Mark Twain


31. “The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. ” –


32. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ”


33. “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen. ”– Doris Roberts


34.  The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.  


35. “Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times. ”


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


37. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell


38. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author


39. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."


40. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. ” – Mark Twain


41. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ” – Confucius


42. “A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!”


43. “Education is an organized program of learning. School is a community of learners. ” — Ken Robinson


44. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ” – Malcolm Forbes


45. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan


46. It’s all about balance


47. “Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present. ”― Rajesh Walecha


48. “Education is the movement from darkness to light. ” — Allan Bloom


49. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ” – Helen Keller


50. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ” —Mary D. Poole, author


51. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. “


52. “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


53. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it. ”


54. “Education without application is just entertainment. ”— Tim Sanders


55. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. —Aristotle


56. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ”


57. “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. ” ― Stanley Fish


58. The world needs all kinds of minds


59. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters


60. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ” – Leonardo da Vinci


61. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. ”


62. “You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts. ”― Stacey Lee


63. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ” —Malala Yousafzai, activist


64. “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ”


65. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”― William Butler Yeats


66. Teaching is the greatest act of optimism


67. “Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy. ” —Paul Polman, Dutch businessman


68. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. —Jim Rohn


69. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers


70. “The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education. ”― John Dewey


71. “Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do. ” – Ciara


72. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow


73. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” – Margaret Fuller


74. “Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. ” – George Weah


75. Be the leader in a school of fish


76. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work


77. “Leadership is an action, not a position. ” —Donald McGannon, broadcasting executive 


78. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ” – George Washington Carver


79. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious


80. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results


81. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. - Walter Cronkite


82. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ”


83.  Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things


84. Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. —Peter Brougham


85. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ―Victor Hugo


86. Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch


87. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has


88. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”


89. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” —Nelson Mandela


90. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley


91. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. ” –Michael Morpurgo


92. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. _G. K. Chesterton


93. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. –Socrates


94. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become. ”


95. “The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom. ” ― Hubert Humphrey


96. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ”


97. “Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today. ”― Jonas Mekas


98. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle


99. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ” – Auguste Rodin


100. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay


101. “Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves. ”


102.  Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it


103. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people. ” – John Hume


104. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. —Martin Luther King Jr


105. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ”— Carl Rogers


106. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy


107. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln


108. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy


109. “I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time. ” ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows


110.  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader


111. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist


112. Lessons on kindness are just as important


113. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. ” – B. B. King


114. It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. —Epictetus


115. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. ” —Helen Keller


116. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ” – Socrates


117. “The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination. ”― Katherine Paterson


118. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ”


119. “Education is the antidote to poverty. ” — Arvind Kejriwal


120. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all


121. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. ” —Benjamin Franklin


122. “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ”– Abigail Adams


123. It will be the person who does not know how to learn


124. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want. ” —Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue


125. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George


126. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ” – Dale Carnegie


127. The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ”– Dr. Seuss


128. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. ” – Bill Nye


129. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead. ” – Jack Nicholson


130. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom” by the great botanist and inventor George Washington Carver


131. In leadership, staying connected to God is key. If we lose our connection, we lose our foundation.  


132. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”


133. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. —Helen Keller


134. “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ” –William Butler Yeats


135. The trick to having happy students is to first be happy yourself


136. “Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.” ~ John C. Maxwell


137. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin


138. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. ”


139. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ” —John Maxwell, author, speaker, and pastor


140. “It doesn`t hurt to get more education. ”― Donald Trump


141. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. - Latin Proverb


142. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. ” ― Lyndon B. Johnson


143. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. —Thomas Carruthers


144. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. - Oscar Wilde


145. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun


146. “Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. ”― Louis L’Amour


147. “All learning has an emotional base. ”


148. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ”


149. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ”


150. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy


151. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ”


152. “Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes. ” — Rainn Wilson


153. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. ” – Arnold H. Glasgow


154. “I have broken many glass ceilings - so I know it can be done. ”


155. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. ”


156. You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. –Lyndon B. Johnson


157. “People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. ”


158. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ”


159. “You are never too small to make a difference. ”


160. “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. ” —John Dewey


161. What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. —Joseph Addison


162. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world. ”


163. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. —Herbert Spencer


164. “Aim for success, not perfection. ” – David M. Burns


165. Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. –Mark Twain


166. It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. –Albert Einstein


167. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."


168. “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ” ― Mark Twain


169. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr


170. “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


171. “There is no failure. Only feedback. ” – Robert Allen


172. “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. ” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming


173. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. ”


174. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. —Chinese proverb


175. “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. ” – Henry Ford


176. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education


177. “Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ” – Eric Fromm


178. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ” – Alexander the Great


179. “Patience and persistence have a magical affect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.” ~ John Quincy Adams


180. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. ”  — Brian Tracy


181. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton


182. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. —Malcolm X


183. “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ” —Horace Mann


184.  Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership


185. Plant some beautiful seeds


186. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy


187. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. ”


188. “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do. ” – John Wooden


189. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. —Leonardo da Vinci


190. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count


191. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ”


192. “All men by nature desire to know. ” – Aristotle


193. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. ” – Richard Branson


194. “Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. ” — Joyce Meyer


195. Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others. – Lao Tzu


196. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin


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


198. “Learning never exhausts the mind. ” – Leonardo Da Vinci


199.  One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency


200. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ”


201. “To educate girls is to reduce poverty. ” – Kofi Annan


202. “There are no labels in UDL. There are only fabulous, amazing students with different levels of variability.” 


203. “All of life is a constant education. ”― Eleanor Roosevelt


204. “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. ” ― Mark Twain


205. “No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education. ” — Nelson Mandela


206. It starts on the inside


207.  “You are never too small to make a difference. ”


208. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ” – Ernest Dimnet


209. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there


210.  To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way


211. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ”― Vera Nazarian


212. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ” – Ayn Rand


213. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein


214. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. ” — Brian Tracy


215. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. ”


216. “Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ”


217. “Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. ” —Paulo Coelho


218. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ” –Claude Bernard


219. “It takes a big heart to shape little minds. ”


220. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. ”


221. A teacher affects eternity


222. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ”— Thomas Carruthers


223. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. ”—Malcolm X


224.  In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock


225. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker


226. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon


227. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. ” ― B. B. King


228. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. —Zig Ziglar


229. “The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ”― Plato


230. The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. —Alexandra K. Trenfor


231. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ” – John Dewey


232. To your students you are a hero


233. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader


234. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. –Dr. Seuss


235. You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. —Marvin Minsky


236. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle


237. “We are all learning all the time and should remain hungry students. ” — Mark Homer


238. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. ”


239. “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. ” —Toni Morrison, author


240. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ”


241. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” ― Dana Stewart Scott


242. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. ” – Mary McLeod Bethune


243. “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. ” –Albert Einstein


244. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams


245. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence


246. “Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. ”— Nelson Mandela


247. “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. ”—Nora Ephron


248. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell


249. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. ”


250. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy


251. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ” —Martin Luther King Jr. , civil rights activist


252. “I am still learning. ” – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, engineer


253. “I am still learning. ” —Michelangelo


254. Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. - William Glasser


255. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin


256. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ”– Winston Churchill


257. If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s …


258. Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. —Weston H. Agor


259. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live. ” – Seneca


260. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ” – Vince Lombardi


261. “Education is possibility set in motion. ” — Jill Biden


262. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E. M. Forster


263. “Success is an exception, so be exceptional. ”


264. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ” – Ignacio Estrada


265. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. —Chinese Proverb


266. “A year from now you will wish you had started today. ” —Karen Lamb, author


267. “Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. ” – Ernest Dimnet


268. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ”


269. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you. ” —Elin Nordegren


270. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ”


271. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” – Nelson Mandela


272. You were created by God, hard wired with talents and personality traits that are unique to just you.  


273. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated. ” ― Oscar Wilde


274. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. ”


275. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ” ―C. S. Lewis


276. To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt


277. “A good education is a foundation for a better future. ” – Elizabeth Warren


278. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


279. “Education is the transmission of civilization. ” – Will Durant


280. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. ” – Andrew Carnegie


281. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. ” —John F. Kennedy


282. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X


283. “If there is no wind, row. ” – Latin Proverb


284. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. —Robert Frost


285. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ”


286. “When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous. ” – Michelle Obama


287. Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody


288. “A little learning is a dangerous thing. ” –Alexander Pope


289. “I study here because there are no lights in our home. I think one day I would like to be a policeman or maybe even a doctor. ”


290. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists


291. “I don’t want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. ” ― Malala Yousafzai


292. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ” – Alfred Mercier


293. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. ”


294. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ”


295. “You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. ” – Julia Child


296. Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. —Alain de Botton


297. The quieter you become, the more you can hear. –Buddha


298. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner


299. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ”


300. All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. –Martin Fisher


301. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. ”


302. Every job has its ups and downs, but not every job can change a life


303. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ” – Socrates


304. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy rear admiral


305. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ”


306. “Education … is the basis for the implementation of the 2030 agenda and for reclaiming the environment. ”


307. To lead teachers toward greater success, principals need to place both student and adult learning at the center


308. Nine tenths of education is encouragement. —Anatole France


309. “Despise school and remain a fool. ”


310. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. ” ― Brigham Young


311. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman


312. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ” – Chinese proverb


313. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel


314. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs


315. Courageous leaders learn to live a consistent life of constant devotion to God in all circumstances.  


316. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ”


317. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ”


318. “School is the path, not the point. ” – Will Richardson


319. “Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it. ”― Confucius


320. “Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ” –John Dewey


321. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ”


322. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” — Nelson Mandela


323. To improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, rather than to load the memory with thoughts of other men


324. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ” – William Burroughs


325. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ” – C. S. Lewis


326. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield


327. “What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future. ” —Steve Maraboli


328. You can't save the people if you don't serve them”. These inspirational quotes for prinicpal 


329. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey


330. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson


331. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. ”


332. “A leader is a dealer in hope. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor


333. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. –Voltaire


334. “Education is the great engine to personal development. ” — Nelson Mandela


335. “You teach best what you most need to learn. ” – Richard Bach


336. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. - W. E. B. DuBois


337. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. ”


338. Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. – Dianne Feinstein


339. “Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity. ” – Agatha Christie


340. “Learning never exhausts the mind. ”


341. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. –Richard Branson


342. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer


343. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie


344. “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. ” ― J. D. Salinger


345. Do or do not. There is no try


346. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ” —John Dewey


347. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ”


348. “Once she knows how to read, there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in—and that is herself. ” —Virginia Woolf


349. Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key. —Tom Colicchio


350. “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. ” – Mahatma Gandhi


351. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts


352. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle


353. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.


354. Just not on the same day or in the same way


355. ”Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ” Harry S. Truman


356. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ” – Victor Hugo


357. “All leaders are readers. ” —Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur


358. “Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ” ― Joseph Stalin


359. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. —Sydney J. Harris


360. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung


361. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.


362. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ” – Steven Wright


363. To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.


364.  I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples


365. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” – John Hume


366. The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician. - Kate Betts


367. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ―Abigail Adams


368. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra


369. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ”


370. Never stop learning. Never stop growing. —Mel Robbins


371. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ” – Gilbert K. Chesterton


372. The world is changed by your example


373. “Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. ”


374. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ” —Albert Einstein


375. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. ” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator


376. “We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. ” — Peter De Vries


377. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ” – Og Mandino


378. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis


379. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ” —Mark Van Doren


380. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ”


381. “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. ” – Claire Fagan


382. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ”


383. “I touch the future. I teach. ” –Christa McAuliffe


384. “We need women for peace, we need women for development… Commitments are good, action is better. Let us take action!”


385. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. ―Muriel Spark


386. “Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed. ” — Barack Obama


387. “I am not a teacher, but an awakened. ” – Robert Frost


388. “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ” ― John Maynard Keynes


389. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. ” – Daniel J. Boorstin


390. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want. ”


391. Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. —Rumi


392. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. ” —Malala Yousafzai


393. “I've learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. ”


394.  A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see


395. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ―Mahatma Gandhi


396. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle


397. “Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know. ” – George Boas


398. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ”― Douglas Adams


399. “Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world. ” —Marc Cuban


400. “To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers. ”― Amit Kalantri


401. Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. –George Evans


402. Every child needs at least one adult …


403. “The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ” ― Wendell Phillips


404. “Only the educated are free. ” ― Epictetus


405. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer


406. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ” —Dr. Seuss


407. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus


408. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ” ―Walter Cronkite


409. I never learned from a man who agreed with me. –Robert A. Heinlein


410. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. “ – George Santayana


411. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


412. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. –John Hersey


413. “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. ” – Aldous Huxley


414. “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. ” –


415. You are already a good teacher


416. “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ” – Euripides


417. The human mind is our fundamental resource. –John F. Kennedy


418. “You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. ” –Lyndon B. Johnson


419. “To teach is to learn twice. ”


420. “A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. ” – Unknown


421. Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. —W. B. Yeats


422. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy


423. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ” —Helen Keller, author, activist, and lecturer


424. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotion to increase your own and others’ success. ”


425. “We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives. ” — Nelson Mandela


426. Great leaders develop other great leaders rather than complete great projects.  


427. “And we should, emphatically, remember that education isn’t just about what happens in schools and colleges. ” ― Gary Thomas


428. “It’s amazing what a team can accomplish when no one cares who receives the credit.” ~ Coach John Wooden


429. Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. —Mahatma Gandhi


430. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. ”


431. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. ” — Howard Gardner


432. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. – Joe DiMaggio


433. “Learning is never done without errors and defeat. ” – Vladimir Lenin


434.  Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear


435. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place. ” – Malala Yousafzai


436. “I am still learning.” – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, engineer


437. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ” — Aristotle


438. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. ” – Gloria Steinem


439. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.


440. “In the end, we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


441. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela


442. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft


443. “What did you learn?” is always first and best question. —Oprah Winfrey


444. “Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time. ” – Hebrew Proverb


445. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States


446. I think the teaching profession contributes more to our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden


447. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie


448. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. ” – Richard Branson


449. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ” – Mark Twain


450.  Earn your leadership every day


451. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. ” ― Tara Westover


452. “Education can never stop! The more we read, the more we learn. The more we learn, the fuller life seems. ” – L. M Montgomery


453. Don’t make up your mind. “Knowing” is the end of learning. —Naval Ravikant


454. “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. ” – Dr. John G. Hibben


455. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ” ― G. K. Chesterton


456. The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you're being followed or chased. – Claire A. Murray


457. One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai


458. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ” – Albert Einstein


459. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy


460. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple


461. “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ” ― Thomas Jefferson


462. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person. ”


463. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."


464. You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. —Abraham Maslow


465. “An attack on one school is an attack on all schools. An attack on one child is an attack on all children. ”


466. “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. ” —William Crawford


467. “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ” ― Aristotle


468. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt


469. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ” ― Victor Hugo


470. We can either use our strengths or abuse our strengths as leaders; the choice is ours.  


471. Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. - Claire Fagin


472. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done


473. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ”


474.  No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it


475. Nothing can dim a light that shines from within


476. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change. ”


477. Try to learn something about everything and everything about —Thomas Huxley


478. “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ” – Chinese Proverb


479. One child, one teacher, one book …


480. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems


481.  Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant


482. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr


483. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. ” ―John Wooden


484. The learning process continues until the day you die. —Kirk Douglas


485. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy


486. When you learn, teach. When you get, give. —Maya Angelou


487. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist


488. May your coffee be strong and your students calm


489. “Good leaders must first become good servants. ” – Robert Greenleaf


490. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ”


491. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ”


492. Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin


493. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ” —Muriel Strode, poet 


494. “Education is the mother of leadership. ” – Wendell Willkie


495. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”


496. “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ” – Elbert Hubbard


497. “Schools should be places to learn, not to teach. ” – Don Tapscott


498. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. –Albert Einstein


499. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ” ― Mark Twain


500. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” Ken Blanchard


501. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ” – Confucius


502. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott


503. No on else in the world has the same strengths you do because God created all of us individually.  


504. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. ”


505. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy


506. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. ” —Margaret Wheatley, writer, teacher, and speaker


507. “It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. ” — Nelson Mandela


508. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln


509. “Education is the mother of leadership. ” —Wendell Willkie, lawyer


510. Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


511. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about. ” —Thomas Huxley


512. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” —Margaret Fuller, American journalist and editor


513. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. ” —Padmasree Warrior, CEO & founder of Fable


514. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ” – B. B. King


515. Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. —John Holt


516. “You are never too small to make a difference. ” —Greta Thunberg, environmental activist


517. ” You can’t lead people if you don’t love them. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve them”.


518. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. - Abigail Adams


519. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author


520. ” We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein


521. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. ” – John C. Maxwell


522. I am still learning. —Michelangelo


523. The more you learn, the more you earn. —Warren Buffett


524. Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data. –Terry Heick


525. “What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ” – Henry David Thoreau


526. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. ” – Joseph Campbell


527. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ”


528. “We cannot stand by while children are shut out from opportunity due to conflicts and emergencies. ”


529. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted


530. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ” – Anthony J. D’Angelo


531. Sometimes the greatest PD is the teacher down the hall


532. Teaching is not a lost art; but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun


533. “Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. ” – C. B. Neblette


534. “Anytime you learn, you gain. ” – Bob Ross


535. “Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn. ”― Daniel Keyes


536. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ” –Stephen Hawking


537. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ”


538. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ”


539. Life is a journey, not a destination. —Ralph Waldo Emerson


540. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. ”― Roy T. Bennett


541. “Success is a poor teacher. ”


542. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."


543. “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."


544. “Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. ” – Anatole France


545. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. ” – Ed Markey


546. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. —Albert Einstein


547. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ”


548. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ”— Voltaire


549. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ”


550. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt


551. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. –Benjamin Franklin


552. With every mistake we must surely be learning. —George Harrison


553. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell


554. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. - Confucius


555. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ” –Colleen Wilcox


556. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek


557.  There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage


558. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company. ”


559. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."


560. “To delight in literature is to desire to learn. ”― Lailah Gifty Akita


561. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren


562. “Education makes you humble, it doesn’t make you proud. ”― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


563. “Education is too important to be left solely to educators. ” – Francis Keppel


564. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. —Bill Vaughan


565. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy


566.  Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others


567. A great teacher is a great artist


568. “Education is an art the practice of which must be brought to perfection in the course of many generations. ” — Immanuel Kant


569. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. ”


570. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader


571. “Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ”


572. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. ”


573.  A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week


574. “The Best way to predict your future is to create it. ”— ABRAHAM LINCOLN


575.  Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs


576. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony J. D'Angelo


577. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ” ― W. B. Yeats


578. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates


579. “A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions. ”


580. “By seeking and blundering we learn. ” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


581. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision."


582. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. ” – Alexandra K. Trenfor


583. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. ”


584. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela


585. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. - Brad Henry


586.  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it


587. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ” – Plutarch


588. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. ”


589. “Change begins with a culture where everyone is elevated to the status of learner.” Sarah Brown Wessling


590. “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ” —Amos Bronson


591. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ” – Malcolm S. Forbes


592. The teacher must be an actor, an artist, passionately in love with his work. - Anton Chekhov


593. You are a great teacher


594. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ”


595. “Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. ” – Mary Harris Jones


596. A little learning is a dangerous thing. –Alexander Pope


597.  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves


598. “That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. ”


599. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.


600. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ” — Socrates


601. Children learn best when they like their teacher, and they think their teacher likes them


602. “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. ”


603. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle


604.  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected


605. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy


606. “Who you are surrounded by often determines who you become. ” 


607. “Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge. ” – William H. Gray III


608. To lead teachers toward greater success, principals need to place both student and adult learning at the center.


609. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ”— Chinese Proverb


610. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ” —Thomas A. Edison, American inventor


611. “No one is perfect, that’s why pencils have erasers. ” – Wolfgang Riebe


612. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ”


613. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti


614. If you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow


615. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ” ― Robert Maynard Hutchins


616. Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life. - Jill Biden


617. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player


618. “Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. ”– William Arthur Ward


619. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ”


620. “The highest result of education is tolerance. ” – Hellen Keller


621. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet


622. Do what you love


623. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ”


624. “One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. ” – Sophocles


625. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. – Simon Sinek


626. “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal. ” ― Cormac McCarthy


627. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”


628. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner


629. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. —Abraham Lincoln


630. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ” —Malcolm Forbes


631. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ”


632. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ” — Benjamin Franklin


633. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. ” – Robin Williams


634. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. ” —Faye Wattleton, American reproductive rights activist


635. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


636. “Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival. ” —W. Edwards Demin


637. Be curious, not judgmental. —Walt Whitman


638. “Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. ”


639. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill


640. “Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ” – William James


641. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell


642. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ” – Margaret Mead


643. If you don’t like something, change it


644. “Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. ” – Alfred North Whitehead


645. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ”


646. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ” –


647. Even the genius asks questions. –Tupac Shakur


648. “The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. ” ― John Dewey


649. “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ” – Voltaire


650. “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ” – Epictetus


651.  Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value


652. “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. ” –George Evans


653. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. “ – W. E. B. Du Bois


654. “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ” —Sydney J. Harris


655. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. - Margaret Mead


656. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark


657. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy


658. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy


659.  Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck


660. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy


661.  Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out


662. They know enough who know how to learn. —Henry Adams


663. “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ” –Martin Fisher


664. The teacher who is indeed wise …


665. Change is the end result of all true learning. ―Leo Buscaglia


666. “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ” – Albert Einstein


667. The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart


668. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”


669. “The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. ” — John Ruskin


670. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower


671. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ” – Leonardo da Vinci


672. “Take what you learn and make a difference with it. ” —Tony Robbins


673. “Education is all a matter of building bridges. “ – Ralph Ellison


674. It’s messy, and it’s in that mess that you will craft your teaching and really enjoy the journey


675. Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. –Oliver Wendell Holmes


676. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ”– Mahatma Gandhi


677. “My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. ”― Mary Shelley


678. “I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. ”– Ann Brashares


679. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy


680.  A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men


681. “The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. ”


682. Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. - Joel Edgerton


683. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best


684. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. ” —Stephen King, author


685. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ” – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States


686. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. —Confucius


687. “Everything is hard before it is easy. ” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman


688. · 1. “A leader is best when people barely 


689. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ” —William S. Burroughs


690. “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. ” — Nelson Mandela


691. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ” ― Karl Menninger


692. “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances


693. “It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning. ”― Claude Bernard


694. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ” —Malcolm X


695. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ” —Aristotle


696. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold


697. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. ” ― Francis Bacon


698. When you love your class, your students just know


699. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. ”


700. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ” —Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple


701. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. —Michel Legrand


702. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ”—Pablo Picasso


703. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” by Albert Einstein 


704. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. —Bill Nye


705. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. ”


706. “The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. ”― George Santayana


707. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt


708. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams


709. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham


710. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ”


711. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. ”


712. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela


713. “All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand. ”― David Hawkins


714. “Leadership is action, not position. ” – Donald H. McGannon


715. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy


716. ” If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”


717. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ” —Tony Blair, British politician


718. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ” — Abraham Lincoln


719. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ” – Edward Everett


720. “Education is one thing no one can take away from you. ” – Elin Nordegren


721. “Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. ” —Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army General


722. All learning has an emotional base. –Plato


723. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. ”


724. · "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each 


725. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. —Anthony J. D’Angelo


726. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live. ”


727. I’m just a teacher standing in front of my class …


728. “As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.” Jim Rohn


729. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy


730. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ” —Peter F. Drucker, author and educator


731. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. ” ― Michel Legrand


732. “We learn from failure, not from success!”― Bram Stoker


733. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.


734. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow


735. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ” ― George R. R. Martin


736. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ”


737. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey


738. “If the person who talks the most learns the most, who is doing the most learning in your classroom?” ~ Anonymous


739. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. ” – Aristotle


740. We teach best what we most need to learn. - Richard Bach


741. Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions


742. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. —Robert Lewin


743. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. —Auguste Rodin


744.  Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing


745.  Control your own destiny or someone else will


746. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes


747. “Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey. ” —Charles S. Lauer, author and businessman


748. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. – Thomas Sowell


749. “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. ”— W. B. Yeats


750. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer


751. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. ” – James Dewar


752. “You don’t need a title to be a leader. ” —Unknown


753. “Every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets.” ~W. Edward Deming


754. They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. —Malala Yousafzai


755. “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. ” ― John Taylor Gatto


756. “We must become what we wish to teach. ” —Nathaniel Branden


757. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ”― Aristotle


758. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun


759. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails


760. “Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. ” – John Adams


761. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy


762. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ” – Will Durant


763. “What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul. “ – Joseph Addison


764. “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ” — Mark Twain


765. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ” – Andy McIntyre


766. “Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ” ― Martin H. Fischer


767. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey


768. “They know enough who know how to learn. ” – Henry Adams


769. “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed by who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. ” – Alain de Botton


770. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ” – Albert Schweitzer


771. The fundamental pillars of school leadership are relationships; nothing substitutes for building and nurturing them


772. Take what you learn and make a difference with it. —Tony Robbins


773. “Hire character. Train skill. ” —Peter Schutz, former president and CEO of Porsche


774. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. —Carl Rogers


775. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."


776. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”


777. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ” – Epictetus


778. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Pablo Picasso


779. Like a boss teacher


780. “Success is a poor teacher. ” – Robert Kiyosaki


781. “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse


782. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell


783.  To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart


784. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ” — Theodore Roosevelt


785. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell


786. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ”


787. “Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world. ” – Sarah Joseph


788. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. ” ― Oprah Winfrey


789. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ” ― Robert Frost


790. If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.


791. “Change is the end result of all true learning. ”


792. “If there is no wind, row.” – Latin Proverb


793.  I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do


794. Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia


795.  The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them


796. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ” ― Mahatma Gandhi


797. “Education has for its object the formation of character. ” ― Herbert Spencer


798. A learning curve is essential to growth. —Tammy Bjelland


799. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. ” – Conrad Hall


800. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn


801. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ” ― Jim Rohn


802. “Do not be afraid to make decisions. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. ”


803. “All things good to know are difficult to learn. ” – Greek proverb


804. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ” —Unknown


805. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


806. “You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results."


807. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy


808. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. —Eleanor Roosevelt


809. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. ”


810. “Education is the vaccine of violence. ” —Edward James Olmos


811. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. ” — Albert Einstein


812. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy


813. You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. –Conrad Hall


814. “Men learn while they teach. ” – Lucius A. Seneca


815. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ” – Pablo Picasso


816. “The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. ” ― Andre Gide


817. The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters


818. “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. ” – Plato


819. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus


820. “A leader is a dealer in hope. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader


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


822. If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. —Howard Gardner


823. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker


824. “The learning process continues until the day you die. ” – Kirk Douglas


825. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ” – John Quincy Adams


826. “I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. ” –


827. “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ” – Horace Mann


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


829. Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. —William Crawford


830. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. ―B. B. King


831. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. ”


832. ” Excellence is to do a common thing uncommonly” By Booker T. Washington advisor to U.S. Presidents


833. “Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning. ” – Naval Ravikant


834. Watch a teacher with a classroom full of students …


835. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. –Benjamin Franklin


836. “Education is a weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hand and at whom it is aimed. ” ― David Phillips


837. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ”


838. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. —Henry Ford


839. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ” – Lily Tomlin


840. “Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous. ” – Confucius


841. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley


842. “Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.” 


843. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady


844. Titles don’t make you a leader, impact does.  


845. Keep company mainly with teachers who uplift you


846. “The key to success is to develop a winning edge. ” – Brian Tracy


847. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. ” – Claus Moser


848. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ” — William Arthur Ward


849. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ” ― Aristotle


850.  Don’t find fault, find a remedy


851. I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. —Eartha Kitt


852. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. ” – John Hersey


853. The fundamental pillars of school leadership are relationships; nothing substitutes for building and nurturing them.


854. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell


855. Great leaders care for their followers.  


856. “The highest result of education is Tolerance” by  Hellen Keller


857. “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ” – Eartha Kitt


858. “Teachers, you don’t teach a subject. You teach a child. ” —Deepa Bhushan


859. “Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day. ” — Premier Brian Gallant


860. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker


861. The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. —Mark Twain


862. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate. ” – Carol Burnett


863. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. ” – Barack Obama


864.  Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.  


865.  Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.  


866. “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. ” ― Harry Wong


867. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. ”—Malala Yousafzai


868. “They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. ”


869. “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased. ”


870. “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. ”— G. K. Chesterton


871. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ”– Marvin Minsky


872. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”— Oliver Wendell Holmes


873. All the small moments with your students


874. “Education is the greatest gift of life, it should never stop. ” — Tony Clark


875. Be awesome, be amazing, be you


876. ” Children require guidance and sympathy more than education” by Anni Sullivan instructor of Hellen Keller


877. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. —Ernest Dimnet


878. When we fail to challenge our teams, we fail to get the best out of our teams.  


879.  To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult


880. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ” – Diogenes of Sinope


881. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ”


882. “Either you run the day or the day runs you. ”


883. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ” – Sydney J. Harris


884. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ” – John F. Kennedy


885. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis


886. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ” ― Dorothy Parker


887. “You cannot open a book without learning something. ” – Confucius


888. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”


889. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ”


890. The great teacher inspires


891.  The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity


892. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ”


893. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey


894. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates


895. Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. –George Weah


896. I wasn’t born to “just teach. ”


897. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. ” – John Holt


898. “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. ” —Martin Luther King Jr


899. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant


900. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ”

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