195+ Useful Quality Education Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it.
It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
— Peter Drucker
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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“The true essence of humankind is kindness.
There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one’s existence, to have a good heart.”
— Dalai Lama
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
— Aristotle
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The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today – pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources – are not about monetary policy.
— Timothy Geithner
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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
— Warren Buffett
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One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
— Christine Gregoire
56
You can learn something new everyday if you listen.
— Sayings
45
Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can’t let that happen.
— Kerry Washington
56
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.
— Konosuke Matsushita
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At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
— Ruben Hinojosa
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It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
— Sayings
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Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans – the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
— Patty Murray
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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
— James Joyce
51
Whether it’s making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
— Blanche Lincoln
48
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.
— Caroline Myss
41
One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
— Barack Obama
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As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people – the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
— Chris Van Hollen
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We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape Birmingham’s learning environment, it will also form the first phase of the new Longbridge town centre and, therefore, represents a milestone in a new future for Longbridge.
— Mike Murray
46
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
— B.B. King
41
Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools.
The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.
— Ted Sizer
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We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
— Bob Taft
41
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
— Orison Swett Marden
41
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
— Alexandra K. Trenfor
41
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
— Desmond Tutu
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Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.
— Tony Alessandra
39
The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
— John Legend
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No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.
— Sayings
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
— Maya Angelou
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
— Roger Moore
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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
— Confucius
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All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
— John F. Kennedy
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Schools teach you how to work for money, but don’t teach how to make money work for you
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
— Bill Gates
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
— Audrey Hepburn
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All of the factors that make up a quality city – safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. – emanate from a strong educational premise.
— Alan Autry
20
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
18
Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think.
— Albert Einstein
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The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
— Ruben Hinojosa
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I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. That means our work won’t be done until every child has access to quality education from early childhood to adulthood.
— Shakira
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
— John Taylor Gatto
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
— Bill Frist
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