20 Inspirational Quotes in Spanish for Your Classroom During NFLW
It’s National Foreign Language Week (NFLW) from March 1-7. Let’s take advantage of this week as an opportunity to inspire our Spanish learning journey and explore inspirational quotes in Spanish you’ll want to share with your students!
We compiled these 20 uplifting quotes in Spanish and supplied you with English translations. They are related to living, learning, and appreciating the doors that open to us by knowing a foreign language.
We created this post especially for middle and high school Spanish teachers who are celebrating NFLW. Hopefully, you’ll be inspired to post them in your classroom and use them in your lessons!
Excellent Life Advice
1. No existe gran talento sin gran voluntad.
There is no great talent without great will.
2. Con el tiempo todo se consigue.
In time, everything is acquired. In other words, patience is key to getting what you want in life.
3. Sin prisas, pero sin pausas.
Without hurry, but without stopping. This is similar to the saying in English, “slow and steady wins the race.”
4. Nunca es tarde para aprender.
It’s never too late to learn.
5. No dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy.
Don’t leave for tomorrow that which you can do today.
6. La lengua no tiene hueso, pero corta lo más grueso.
Words are more powerful than weapons. This literally translates as “the tongue doesn’t have a bone, but it cuts the thickest thing.”
7. El aprendizaje es experiencia, todo lo demás es información.
Learning is experience. Everything else is information.
Wisdom Quotes from International Thinkers
1. Aprender a dudar es aprender a pensar. – Octavio Paz
To learn to doubt is to learn to think.
2. Este mundo no va a cambiar a menos que estemos dispuestos a cambiar nosotros mismos. – Rigoberta Menchú
The world won’t change unless we’re willing to change ourselves.
3. Si hablas a una persona en una lengua que entiende, las palabras irán a su cabeza. Si le hablas en su propia lengua, las palabras irán a su corazón. – Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it will go to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, it will go to his heart.
4. El lenguaje ejerce un poder escondido, como la luna en la marea. – Rita Mae Brown
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
5. Conocimiento de lenguas es la puerta a la sabiduría. – Roger Bacon
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
Inspiring Quotes on Language Learning
1. Un idioma distinto es una visión diferente de la vida. – Federico Fellini
A different language is a different vision of life.
2. Nunca podrás entender un idioma hasta que entiendas al menos dos. – Geoffrey Willans
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
3. Un idioma te deja en el pasillo. Dos idiomas abren cada puerta en el camino. – Frank Smith
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
4. Aprender otro idioma es como convertirse en otra persona. -Haruki Murakami
Learning another language is like becoming another person.
5. Aprender otro idioma no es solo aprender diferentes palabras para las mismas cosas, pero aprender otra manera de pensar. – Flora Lewis
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
6. Un lenguaje nuevo es una vida nueva.
A new language is a new life.
7. Tener otro idioma es poseer una segunda alma.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
8. Vives una nueva vida para cada idioma que hablas. Si solo sabes un idioma, solo vives una vez. – Proverbio Checo
You live a new life for every language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.
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We hope that these wonderful quotes and sayings in Spanish will inspire learners of all ages to continue learning and improving their language skills. Looking for more motivation? Sign up for a free class now at Homeschool Spanish Academy!
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