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.”
“Si hablas a un hombre en un idioma que entiende, lo que digas llegará a su cabeza. Si le hablas en su idioma, llegará a su corazón.”
“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
“Aprender a pensar en otro idioma te permite ver tu propia cultura desde un mejor punto de vista.”
Learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.”
Gates McFadden
“Tomar una decisión equivocada es comprensible. Negarse a seguir aprendiendo no lo es.”
“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.”
Phil Crosby
“90% del aprendizaje se consigue gracias a la motivación.”
“90% of learning comes through encouragement.”
Kevin Thoman
“Invertir en conocimiento produce los mayores rendimientos.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Cualquier persona que sigue aprendiendo se mantiene joven.”
“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Henry Ford
“Cualquiera que deje de aprender será viejo, así tenga veinte u ochenta años.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
Henry Ford
“El cambio es el resultado final de todo aprendizaje verdadero.”
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Desarrolla la pasión por aprender. Si lo haces, nunca dejarás de crecer.”
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
Anthony D'Angelo
“La educación vence a la belleza y a la juventud.”
“Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
Chanakya
“La educación es una tarea para toda la vida; sólo se termina al morir.”
“Education is a lifetime assignment and terminates when you do.”
Orrin Woodward
“Hasta los árboles más altos comienzan siempre como una semilla.”
“Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.”
A. J. Darkholme
“Los esfuerzos fallidos están ahí para examinarlos y aprender de ellos.”
“Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.”
Kelli Wilson
“Es una cosa terrible desperdiciar el tiempo libre. Lee un libro.”
“Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
“Todavía sigo aprendiendo.”
“I am still learning.”
Michelangelo (at age 87)
“Si no estás dispuesto a aprender, nadie podrá ayudarte.”
“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.”
Zig Ziglar
“Aprendiendo enseñarás, y enseñando aprenderás.”
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
Phil Collins
“Se necesita mucho tiempo para aprender a hacer algo de manera sencilla.”
“It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.”
Marty Rubin
“He aprendido que aún tengo mucho que aprender.”
“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
Maya Angelou
“El conocimiento es saber algo; la inteligencia es saber usar ese conocimiento.”
“Knowledge is all about knowing it and intelligence is all about using it.”
Prabakaran Thirumalai
“Liderazgo y aprendizaje son indispensables entre sí.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“Aprende de la historia o estarás condenado a repetirla.”
“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”
Jesse Ventura
“Aprender otro idioma es como convertirse en otra persona.”
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”
Haruki Murakami
“Aprender otro idioma no es sólo aprender nuevas palabras, sino aprender otra forma de pensar sobre las cosas.”
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis
“Vive como si fueras a morir mañana. Aprende como si fueras a vivir por siempre.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“El aprendizaje es un tesoro que seguirá a su dueño a todas partes.”
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
Chinese proverb
“El aprendizaje es experiencia. Todo lo demás sólo es información.”
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
Albert Einstein
“Nunca ignores una oportunidad para mejorar.”
“Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.”
Sir William Jones
“Nunca dejes de aprender, porque la vida nunca deja de enseñar.”
“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.”
Albert Einstein
“Cuando se deja de aprender, se comienza a morir.”
“Once you stop learning, you start dying.”
Albert Einstein
“Un idioma te pone en el corredor de la vida. Dos idiomas te abren cada puerta del camino.”
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
Frank Smith
“Creo firmemente que la autoeducación es la única forma de educación que hay.”
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
Isaac Asimov
“Habla un nuevo idioma para que el mundo sea un nuevo mundo.”
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
Rumi
“Los maestros abren la puerta, pero debes entrar por ti mismo.”
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
Chinese proverb
“Dime y lo olvido, enséñame y lo recuerdo, involúcrame y aprendo.”
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Lo bello de aprender es que nadie te lo puede quitar.”
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B. B. King
“La mejor forma de aprender es hacer; la peor forma de enseñar es hablar.”
“The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.”
Paul Halmos
“La cosa más grande en la vida es mantener la mente joven.”
“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
“Si estás decidido a aprender, nadie podrá detenerte.”
“If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
Zig Ziglar
“Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo.”
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“La mente lo es todo. Te conviertes en aquello en lo que piensas.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
The Buddha
“La única meta que no puedes alcanzar es aquella que no persigues.”
“The only goal you can’t accomplish is the one that you don’t go after.”
Vilis Ozols
“Camina con seguridad hacia tus sueños. Vive la vida que has imaginado.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“La única persona que estás destinada a ser es la persona que tú decidas ser.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“El mundo es un libro; aquellos que no viajan sólo leen una página.”
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Saint Augustine
“Aquellos que hablan muchos idiomas viven tantas vidas como las lenguas que hablan.”
“Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know.”
Czech proverb
“Hablar otro idioma es tener una segunda alma.”
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
Charlemagne
“Aprendemos del fracaso, no del éxito.”
“We learn from failure, not from success.”
Bram Stoker
“Aprendemos a hacer las cosas haciéndolas.”
“We learn to do by doing.”
Spencer W. Kimball
“Aprendemos a hacer algo haciéndolo. No hay otra manera.”
“We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.”
John Holt
“Lo que la mente puede concebir y creer, lo puede lograr.”
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“Lo que aprendes es tu mayor tesoro.”
“What you learn is your greatest treasure.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Cuando el alumno está listo, aparece el maestro.”
“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
Buddhist saying
“Cuando hagas lo que más temes, podrás hacer cualquier cosa.”
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
Stephen Richards
“Si piensas que puedes, o si piensas que no puedes, en cualquier caso tienes razón.”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“Quien deja de ser un estudiante nunca ha sido un estudiante.”
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
George Iles
“La sabiduría no llega con la edad, sino con la educación y el aprendizaje.”
“Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
Anton Chekhov
“Lo sabes: el aprendizaje no termina en el salón de clases.”
“You know, learning doesn't end in the classroom.”
E. C. Myers
“Debes ser muy amable contigo cuando estás aprendiendo algo nuevo.”
“You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Enseñar es demostrar que es posible. Aprender es hacerlo posible para ti mismo.”
“Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
Paulo Coelho
“Si prestas atención, puedes aprender algo cada día.”
“You learn something every day, if you pay attention.”
Ray LeBlond
“Tu tiempo es limitado, no lo pierdas viviendo la vida de otro.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else´s life.”
Steve Jobs
“Un hombre no es más que el producto de sus pensamientos. Se convierte en aquello en lo que piensa.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Cada idioma que aprendes te abre nuevas oportunidades.”
“Each language you learn is another set of opportunities.”
Skylar Harrington
“La educación es el arma más poderosa que puedes usar para cambiar el mundo.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“Yo no soy producto de mis circunstancias. Yo soy producto de mis decisiones.”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Stephen Covey
“Comparte tu conocimiento. Es una forma de lograr la inmortalidad.”
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Dalai Lama
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