Inspiring Quotes to Motivate Students on Their Journey

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

"You have to be odd to be No.1."

- Dr. Seuss

"When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I choose beauty over bitterness, I choose discovery over doubt, I choose freedom over fear, I choose grace over grief, I choose peace over panic, I choose surrender over suffering, I choose trust over terror, I choose wisdom over warfare, I choose life, light and love."

- Emmanuella Raphaelle

"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."

- Chinese Proverb

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

"For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"Oh the places you’ll go, today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again. This time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

- Albert Einstein

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Maimonides

"You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started."

- David Allen

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

- Chinese Proverb

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not smashing it."

- Arnold Glasow

"You learn something every day if you pay attention."

- Ray LeBlond

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Studying is always the best investment in the future. Don’t just study to qualify, but also study to edify, elevate and to amplify your life."

"There’s no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Don’t fear the exam, make the exam fear you."

"A little progress each day adds to big results."

"Being different is one of the most Beautiful things on earth."

"In a year, you’ll be thankful you started today."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."