50+ Homework Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Students and Boost Productivity

"Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this."

- Anthony McCarten

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Albert Einstein

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Derek Bok

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Plutarch

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

- BB King

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'"

- Thomas Friedman

"When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts."

- Aaron Judge

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Nelson Mandela

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Elon Musk

"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

"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 moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose."

- Julie Foudy

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Zig Ziglar

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- John Wooden

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen."

- Julie Andrews

"Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write."

- Christopher Paolini

"Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution."

- Sal Albanese

"I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home."

- Bad Bunny

"I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it."

- Jonathan Nolan

"Between school, homework, tests, and play time with my friends, I have worked my butt off to create this space where black girls' stories are read and celebrated in schools and libraries."

- Marley Dias

"I'm always studying actors and movies. You can never not do your homework."

- Danielle Rose Russell

"I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00 P.M., get home at midnight, and try to do whatever homework I could before getting back up for 7:00 A.M. But I did it because I liked dancing, and I loved the music."

- Jessie Reyez

"The support of my mother has made such a difference in my life, sacrificing everything to make sure that we went to school, did our homework, got an education. That was one person supporting me, and it takes more than one person in our community to help raise our children."

- Adam Goodes

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision."

- Tess Daly

"My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework."

- Daymond John

"I remember playing hockey as a kid - I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But basketball was my passion. As a kid I went to class, came back from school, did my homework and went straight across the street to practice."

- Jamal Murray

"I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you're cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework."

- Chloe Bennet

"Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously."

- Ronald Frame

"When I was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work - packing lunches before we woke up - and paying bills after we went to bed. Helping us with homework at the kitchen table - and shuttling us to church for choir practice."

- Kamala Harris

"Our family is very, very competitive. But it's a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win."

- Joe Lonsdale

"Growing up in Nigeria I saw real poverty - I experienced it, including living without electricity and doing my homework by candlelight, because the state electricity board could not provide power, and fetching water in heavy, rusty buckets from a bore-hole a mile away, because the nationalised water company could not get water out of the taps."

- Kemi Badenoch

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

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

- Babe Ruth

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Elon Musk

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer."

- Dabo Swinney

"Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script."

- Mads Mikkelsen

"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."

- Constance Baker Motley

"I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar."

- Jimmy Page

"Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun."

- Lewis Black

"I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot."

- Milana Vayntrub

"My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project."

- Robert Lefkowitz

"The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world."

- Jules Shear

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

- Mason Cooley

"I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it."

- Pamela Anderson

"My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework."

- Cuco

"In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air."

- Tom Carper

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character."

- Lorde

"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest of the past centuries."

- René Descartes

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ken Blanchard

"What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from."

- Lil B

"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."

- Lawrence Kasdan

"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."

- Bill Gates

"When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax."

- Tim Griffin

"Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that."

- Tom Holland

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

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