213 Best Inspirational Quotes for Students

If you’re a student, it can be hard to motivate yourself to study. But you don’t have to!

In this article, we’ll share with you some inspirational quotes that will help boost your motivation and get you ready for your tests.

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” — BB King
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
“Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it.” – Marva Collins
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones..” – Confucius
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”_Malcolm X
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott
“A little progress each day adds up to big results.”_Satya Nani
“Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.”_Usain Bolt
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein
“I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” —Elon Musk
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”_Walt Disney
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” –Zig Ziglar
“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George Augustus Moore
“I think it’s possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” — Elon Musk
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”_B.B. King
“By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”_Dalai Lama
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday.”_ Charles F. Kettering
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”_Anne Frank
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” —Plutarch
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”_– Milton Berle
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”_– Gail Devers
“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.”_Mason Cooley
“Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” – Anonymous
“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”_Victor Kiam
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”_Edward Young
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”_George Washington Carver
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”_Zig Ziglar
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There’s a fire burning inside of all of us.” – Lech Walesa
“Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” – Natalie Portman
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”– Abraham Lincoln
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
“Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Edward Young
“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” — A.A Milne
“Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.” – William Arthur Ward
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”_Mary Lou Retton
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George Augustus Moore
“There is always time to make right what is wrong.” – Susan Griffin
“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar
“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”_ Shiv Khera
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
“Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin
“Middle school has many complex tunnels, some are underground.” – Alexandra Contreras-Montesano
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”_Arthur Ashe
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
“No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning.” — Donovan Livingston
“By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
Study the past if you want to intuit the future – Confucius
“School means work and work means death. Let’s all go take a nap.” – Emma Shannon
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it.” – Marva Collins
“Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese Proverb
“To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer.”_Dabo Swinney
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” — Elon Musk
. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.” ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”_ Helen Keller
“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” —Aristotle
“The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Nicole
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
.“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas A. Edison
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Stills
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” –Albert Einstein
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”- John. F. Kennedy
“It never gets easier. You just get better.” – Jordan Hoechlin
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” —Helen Hayes
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” —Ralph Marston
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. – Zig Ziglar
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” —Venus Williams
“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
“There are no secrets to success. It is dedication, hard work and learning from failure.”- Collin Powell
“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” —B.B. King
“Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy
.“If you can dream it, you can do it.”- Walt Disney
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
“Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” —Chinese proverb
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” — Helen Hayes
. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
.“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Stills
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated.” — R Collier
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”– C.S. Lewis
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones..” – Confucius
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” —Oprah Winfrey
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” —Mark Twain
.”The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” —Mason Cooley
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
“Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.” – Usain Bolt
“The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?” — Benjamin Franklin
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” –Walt Disney
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou
“Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” — Henry L. Doherty
“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas Jefferson
“Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.” —Thomas Edison
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated.” —R. Collier
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
“Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” — Henry L. Doherty
“It is wiser to find out than to suppose.” — Mark Twain
“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” — Jennifer Dukes Lee
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”- Zig Ziglar
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”- Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the thief of time. – Edward Young
“You receive from the world what you give to the world.” – Oprah Winfrey
“You have to be odd to be no.1.” — Dr. Seuss
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”-T. S Eliot
“Work hard, nap hard.” – Demi Lovato
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” – Donald Gardner
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.” – Angela K. Bennett
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” —Karim Seddiki
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving
“You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”-A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
“All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mohandas Gandhi
his is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”– Ralph Marston
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”– Steve Jobs
. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani
“All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.”– Michael John Bobak
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.” – Brian Tracy
“No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anybody but oneself.”- Virginia Woolf
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.”- Maya Angelou
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis
“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar
. “Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” – Anonymous
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” – Stephen Hawking
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” – Harry Wong
“I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.” – Jenny Han
“School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” – Winifred C. Marshal
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

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We hope this article has been helpful in motivating students about their studies, and we hope that it will continue to be a resource for them as they go on to do great things!