Top Inspirational Quotes to Ace Your Final Exams

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"Congratulations on reaching the end of the Spring 2023 semester! You are so close; you can do this! You have sacrificed valuable time and money to study at NAU. Please remind yourself about the reasons for your sacrifice and to thank yourself for a job well done. You are valuable, so be confident in your abilities as you work toward the finish line. Don’t forget to breathe and take time to reflect upon what you have learned this year. Consider how you positively impact others, including how others impact you. You are never alone, as you have a community of fellow learners to lean on. The end of the semester shouldn’t be just about cramming content and acing exams, it is also about consolidating learning and reengaging with the collection of characteristics that define your authentic self. Be selfish by being kind to yourself!"

- M. David Albritton, PhD | Professor of Management

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Sometimes it’s hard to keep focus or motivation. But know we have your back! Good luck. Reach out to campus resources if you can use some help or just need to talk something through. I know you have meticulous plans to be in top shape for finals this week. But do take time to relax. Mixing work and play is actually a good thing. You’ve got this!! Go Jacks!! 💙💛🪓"

- NAU President Cruz Rivera

"You’ve got this! Make a study schedule and stick to it by reducing distractions from people and technology. Take care of yourself and get some rest."

- Theresa Bierer| Associate Professor of Practice| Franke College of Business

"Ted Lasso speaks the truth. You’ve done the hard work already — now believe you got this. Because you do! And if you need an additional cheerleader, Theodore (no relation to Ted), the unofficial emotional support dog of FCB says he believes in you too. It all comes down to confidence, so you got to bring it to send it."

- Professor Bridgette Braig

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Don’t lose sight of the big picture during final’s week … your degree/education is setting you up for success for the rest of your life."

- Professor Jeremy Brees

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Robert Collier

"My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do"

- Benjamin Spock

"It’s the job that’s never started as takes the longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"No gains without pains."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hang in there, Jacks! But if you need a break — go to your happy place!"

- Professor Amy Hitt

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

- Albert Einstein

"Trust yourself; you know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"If you don’t do your revision properly, you know what’ll happen? YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

- Sir Ian McKellen, channelling Gandalf from Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

- Helen Keller

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Winston Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

"My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s procrastination."

- Ron Cooper

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence."

- Mary Ann Evans

"The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."

- Charles Dickens

"Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being."

- Brian Jacques

"Education not just preparation for life, but part of life itself – a continuous art."

- Henry Ford

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that."

- Michelle Obama

"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation; provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease; and give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to reach their full potential."

- Audrey Hepburn

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

- Mary Shelley

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."

- Sir Terry Pratchett

"If we wait for the moment when absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin."

- Ivan Turgenev

"It’s not the time to look for excuses."

- Rafael Nadal

"Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely."

- Richelle Goodrich

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

- Jane Austen

"As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

- Wheeler

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."

- Rudyard Kipling

"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- General George S. Patton

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

"A woodsman was once asked, ‘What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?’ He answered, ‘I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.”"

- Anonymous woodsman, popularly attributed to Abraham Lincoln

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstance, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

- Viktor Frankl

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- John R. Wooden

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Don’t look at finals as trying to memorize the correct answers — but instead as one more opportunity to truly understand the material and to know where your learning will take you next."

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

"You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

"You are capable of more than you know. Aim high. Behave honorably."

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have the same hours per day given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein"

"Fear, inherently, is not meant to limit you. Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome."

- Unknown

"Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will."

- Unknown

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."

- Unknown

"If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice."