Motivational Quotes For Students “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese proverb “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley