Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves — Leonard Roy Frank
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. — K. Patricia Cross
To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally. — Eric Williams
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. — Major Owens
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. — Anatole France
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. — Brad Henry
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. — John W. Gardner
Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it. — Ken Robinson
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. — Cesar Chavez
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how. — Harry Wong
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. — Marva Collins
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think. — Robert M. Hutchins
The importance of Dream School is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying. — 50 Cent
Short Motivate Students Quotes
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — John Wesley Young
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Student Motivation Quotes
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — Abdul Kalam
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone — Abdul Kalam
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
I know there were students in my class who were smarter than me, but I don’t know if there was anybody who worked harder than me. — Michael J. Massimino
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Encourage Students Quotes
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. — Spiro T. Agnew
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity. — Henry Ford
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary. — Chogyam Trungpa
I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent. — Bear Bryant
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. — Allen Tate
You are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. — Louise Slaughter
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo
I learned early on that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and the business will take care of itself. — Glen Bell
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well. — Eric Yuan
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers. — Horst Schulze
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform. — Ricardo Semler
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. — Spike Lee
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. — Brian Tracy
When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. — Abdul Kalam
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Max Eastman
Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action. — Abdul Kalam
As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan. — Maya Moore
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men. — Herbert Baxter Adams
I guess good things come to those who wait. — Kurt Busch
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life. — Gustav Nossal
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough. — Albert Einstein
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible. — Rafe Esquith
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long
You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany — Markus Zusak
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. — Nora Roberts
A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable — Frances Elliott Clark
If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs. — Daphne Koller
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown. — Adrien Broner
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact. — George Lucas
People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back. — Chrisette Michele
The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green. — Jill Stein
There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their studies. For example, we don't allow our kids to work during the school hours their freshman year. After that, they can work a little but not so much that it hurts their education. — Michelle Singletary
Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They're motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen. — Seymour Papert
Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs. — Oliver DeMille
I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.” — Eric Thomas
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James. — Willa Cather
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated. — Jack Canfield
When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life. — Myron Tribus
You can't motivate a student you don't know. — Ted Sizer
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning. — Martin Haberman
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard. — Thomas G. Stemberg
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