Inspiring Educational Quotes to Motivate Students? Know how to Use Them with Background Images!

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Who doesn't love a good inspirational picture quote? When done right, they're equal parts compelling, motivating, and timely. They can also be a lot of fun to create. But that's why you're here, isn't it? 

Maybe you've stumbled upon an inspirational quote on social media that moved you so much you immediately reposted it. And now you want to take a shot at making your own. Or perhaps you've been struck by a brilliant maxim so uplifting that you feel like you have to share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Simple designs are by far the most effective – and emotional – designs. They also help you keep the focus on the quote, and not what’s going on in the background.

You see it’s a bad habit a lot of designers get into, both amateur and professional, where they try and fill up all the space that they’ve got.

But, you don’t have to, especially for quotes.That doesn’t mean you can’t use background images, or designs, that have a lot going on. It just means you want to the focus to be on the words you’ve written. That way they carry more weight and are more likely to be shared.

How to make better background?

To be safe though, try and use one of these style of backgrounds so your message doesn’t ever get lost in the background:

1. Plain: Choose a colour that fits your site, niche or brand and use it as a plain background. So that there is zero chance of any focus being lost.
2. Nature: Nice scenery works well with a lot of quotes. Using the filters you can add a little life and soul to them, too.
3. People: People respond well to pictures of other people. Though be sure to choose pictures with fewer people so they don’t look cluttered.

And remember that clear, empty space doesn’t draw away from you quote, but gives it a lot more power.

Some background examples

Learning allows us to make sense of the world around us, the world inside of us, and where we fit within the world.

Education helps us get exposure to new ideas and concepts that we can use to appreciate and improve the world around us and the world within us.

When we improve our education and continue to learn, we can foster new connections, increase our marketable skills, and understand people better.

Education matters

The world around us is everything external. The world within us is everything internal, like our mind, body, and emotions.Education is the tool that breaks down all barriers. Education is part of the foundation of all progress and growth, both as an individual and as a society.

All things are possible because anything can be learned. With that said, here are some powerful education quotes to help you appreciate the power of learning and gaining knowledge.

Short powerful education quotes to get you thinking, these can be inserted in awesome background frames.

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

education quotes about change

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

education quotes about tomorrow

3. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan

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

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

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

17. “Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

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

20. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” – Claude Bernard

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

22. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

23. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

24. “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” – Agnes Repplierg

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

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

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

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

29. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

30. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey

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

39. “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

40. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” – Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

43. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

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

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

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

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

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

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

50. “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov

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

52. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

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

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

55. “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.”– Sir Anthony Seldon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

63. “The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.”– Lindsay Kolowich

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

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

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

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

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

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

70. “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78. “You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

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

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

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

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

83. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

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

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

89. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov

90. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein

91. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

93. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

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

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

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

George Eastman

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

98. “The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively.” – John G. Palfrey and ‎Urs Gasser

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

100. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. – Shakuntala Devi

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

102. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

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

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

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

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

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

108. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

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

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

111. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

121. “The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

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

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

124. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes of Sinope

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

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

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

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

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

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

131. “The schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for Government.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

135. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

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

137. “All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

Conclusions

Quotation marks, double (“”) or single (''), are generally used for direct quotes, certain titles, and words used in a special manner. Quotation marks are ALWAYS used in pairs, one at the beginning of the quoted text and one at the end. The same rule applies to titles and words used in a special sense or for emphasis.