“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.” – Amy Chua

“It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly.” – Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

“Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.” – Frank Smith.

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne

“We can be whatever we have the courage to be.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher

“I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody” – ‍Maya Angelou

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.‍” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“What we learn with pleasure, we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” – Flora Lewis

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.‍” – Angela Carter

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S.Lewis

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown

“A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini