Updated: Aug 18, 2021
In this post, you will find inspiring Spanish quotes—and their English translations. They will help you change the way you feel about life and language learning. Remember that the way you think and feel about yourself determines everything that happens to you. As the Buddha said, “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
Nelson Mandela
Learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.”
Gates McFadden
“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.”
Phil Crosby
“90% of learning comes through encouragement.”
Kevin Thoman
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Henry Ford
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
Henry Ford
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
Anthony D'Angelo
“Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
Chanakya
“Education is a lifetime assignment and terminates when you do.”
Orrin Woodward
“Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.”
A. J. Darkholme
“Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.”
Kelli Wilson
“Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
“I am still learning.”
Michelangelo (at age 87)
“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.”
Zig Ziglar
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
Phil Collins
“It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.”
Marty Rubin
“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
Maya Angelou
“Knowledge is all about knowing it and intelligence is all about using it.”
Prabakaran Thirumalai
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”
Jesse Ventura
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”
Haruki Murakami
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
Chinese proverb
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
Albert Einstein
“Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.”
Sir William Jones
“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.”
Albert Einstein
“Once you stop learning, you start dying.”
Albert Einstein
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
Frank Smith
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
Isaac Asimov
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
Rumi
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
Chinese proverb
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B. B. King
“The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.”
Paul Halmos
“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
“If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
Zig Ziglar
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
The Buddha
“The only goal you can’t accomplish is the one that you don’t go after.”
Vilis Ozols
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Saint Augustine
“Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know.”
Czech proverb
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
Charlemagne
“We learn from failure, not from success.”
Bram Stoker
“We learn to do by doing.”
Spencer W. Kimball
“We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.”
John Holt
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“What you learn is your greatest treasure.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
Buddhist saying
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
Stephen Richards
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
George Iles
“Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
Anton Chekhov
“You know, learning doesn't end in the classroom.”
E. C. Myers
“You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
Paulo Coelho
“You learn something every day, if you pay attention.”
Ray LeBlond
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else´s life.”
Steve Jobs
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Each language you learn is another set of opportunities.”
Skylar Harrington
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Stephen Covey
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Dalai Lama
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