Need Motivation? 25 Inspirational Phrases
Sometimes we all have days when we need a fair dose (or even a touch) of motivation. The days when the path towards our dreams and goals feels too heavy.
In moments like these, when motivation and inspiration shine through in their absence, these next 25 utterances can help you find the strength to move forward.
Top 25 Motivational Phrases
1. “You were not born to live like the savages, but you are here to seek knowledge and intellectual virtue.” – Dante Alighieri
2. Study as if you were living forever, and live as if you were dying tomorrow.
3. “The wise seek the truth, but the fools think they have found it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
4. “Man can absorb innumerable knowledge from books, but the most important doctrine — understanding the world — is born only by reading people.” – Lord Chesterfield
5. Goals are achievable with hard work and perseverance.
6. “ Never think of your studies as an obligation, but rather as an enviable opportunity to embrace the liberating beauty of knowledge and the resulting benefit for both your own career and the community that will benefit from all your future work.” – Albert Einstein
7. “Tell me something so I forget, teach me something so I remember, take me along so I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
8. “I have learned a lot from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students.” – Hindu proverb
9. “With the exception of the dog, man’s best friend is the book. It is so dark inside the dog that you can’t even read there. ” – Groucho Marx
10. “Learning is like upstream rowing. You drive backwards until you stop. ” – Edward Benjamin Britten
11. “I find television very instructive. Every time someone puts it on, I go to another room to read a book. ” – Groucho Marx
12. “I was told, and I forgot; then I saw, and I understood; until I did, and I learned. ” – Confucius
13. “Intelligence is not just about knowledge, but also about the ability to put it into practice.” – Aristotle
14. “ Studying without thinking is useless. Thinking without studying is dangerous. ” – Confucius
15. “Man values and loves most what he has earned through hard work.” – Aristotle
16. “I never teach my students. I’m just trying to create conditions for them where they can learn. ” – Albert Einstein
17. There is as great a difference between a wise and an ignorant man as between a living and a dead man.
18. “ Learning is basically just an extension of ourselves; wherever we are, we also have a degree of learning. ” – William Shakespeare
19. Wisdom is the key to success and refuge in the midst of adversity.
20. “ Every person I know is in some way better than myself. So I learned something from everyone. ”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. A true student is one who, over time, surpasses his teacher in his skills.
22. “It is the culmination of madness to learn something you will have to forget later in your life.” – Erasmus of Rotterdam
23. Seeking policies from childhood is not irrelevant; vice versa.
24. “ If you want to learn, teach. ”- Cicero
25. “All that little I have learned is irrelevant alongside all that I do not know and that I desperately do not want to learn.” – René Descartes
Finally, I would like to share with you this brilliant and passionate video of Will Smith and Randy Pausch, in which they inspire us to understand how important it is to live each day to the fullest:
