Learning languages is awesome.
It’s fun, challenging, exciting, rewarding…
But it can also be tough. It takes a lot of dedication to learn a foreign language well. If you’ve got your eye on the prize of fluency, you have to just stick at it, trusting that all the effort will be pay off in the end.
With that in mind, we’ve collected our favourite inspirational and motivational quotes for when you need a reminder of what it’s all for.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.
‒ Nelson Mandela
With languages, you are at home anywhere.
– Edward De Waal
A different language is a different vision of life.
– Federico Fellini
We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
– Kató Lomb
A man who knows two languages is worth two men.
‒ French proverb
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
‒ Karl Albrecht
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
‒ Charlemagne
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
‒ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
‒ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
‒ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.
‒ Czech proverb
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
‒ Roger Bacon
Language is wine upon the lips.
– Virginia Woolf
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
‒ Geoffrey Willans
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.
‒ Turkish proverb
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.
– Chinese proverb
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
‒ Flora Lewis
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
‒ Gaston Bachelard
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
– Czech proverb
Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.
‒ Frank Smith
The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
‒ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
– William Gibson
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
‒ Frank Smith
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
– Roger Bacon
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
– Chinese proverb
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
‒ Rita Mae Brown
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
– Rumi
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
– Benjamin Lee Whorf
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
– Elif Safak
Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.
–Arab proverb
The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language.
– Jules Michelet
A new language is a new life.
– Persian proverb
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Indeed, learning a new language is the most beautiful thing that can happen in your life. I love these quotes, they’re real. Thank you for sharing. check-out this as well
Absolutely loved this blog post! As a language enthusiast, I found these quotes incredibly inspiring and timely. They remind me that the language learning journey is filled with both challenges and rewards. It’s not just about becoming fluent, it’s about the connection, understanding, and appreciation of another culture. Each quote seems to perfectly encapsulate the beauty and struggles of learning a new language. These words of wisdom provide that extra boost of motivation I need when things get tough. Thanks for sharing these nuggets of inspiration – they’ll definitely have a permanent spot on my study wall!
For sure, language learning is about the journey, not just the end goal! Glad you enjoyed the quotes 🙂