100+ Inspirational Quotes to Boost Your Confidence for Test Taking Success

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Benjamin Spock

"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

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

- Virat Kohli

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Study hard, no matter if it seems impossible, no matter if it takes time, no matter if you have to be up all night, just remember that the feeling of success is the best thing in the entire world."

- khangal_wehearit

"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- General Colin Powell

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Stephen Hawking

"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

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Confucius

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Zig Ziglar

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

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

- Beverly Sills

"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

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan but also believe."

- Anatole France

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Walt Disney

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars."

- Les Brown

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Failure doesn't exist. You fail, you learn from it and try it again - Kobe Bryant."

- Kobe Bryant

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons - Jim Rohn"

- Jim Rohn

"The path to MCAT success begins with a mindset, grows into a routine, and culminates into an act of faith in yourself"

- Random Reddit user

"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

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"No gains without pains."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William Faulkner

"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

"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

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- John R. Wooden

"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

"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”

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"It always seems impossible until it’s done"

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Ron Cooper

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- George Washington Carver

"If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs."

- Tony Gaskin

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

- Milton Berle

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"JOBS NOT FINISHED - Kobe"

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Viktor Frankl

"I got this from a navy seal, he said the quote that got him through training was “the only easy day was yesterday”"

- Navy Seal

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

- Chinese Proverb

"When the student is ready, the master appears."

- Buddhist Proverb

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Rafael Nadal

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Your lack of commitment is almost an insult to those who believe in you. - The NOTORIOUS Connor Mcgregor"

- Conor McGregor

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

- Nelson Mandela

"You can always be better"

- Tiger Woods

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Arianna Huffington

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

- Harvey S. Firestone

"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

"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."

- Terry Pratchett

"What is good is easy to obtain, what is difficult is easy to endure - Epicurus"

- Epicurus

"Tell me it's not gonna happen. Tell me it's gonna fail. I love it. I love every minute of it. - Dana White"

- Dana White

"Excellence is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."

- Conor McGregor

"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."

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

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

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done"

"A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory"

"Failure is Not Trying Grit don’t Quit You didn’t come this far for fail Stay the course"

"In times of great difficulty, those with the courage to stay the course will be victors in the end"

"The problem is that you want it to be easy. Nothing worth it was ever earned through something being easy."

"If you’re scared, do it scared."

"If you think the price of living is too high, wait till you see the bill for regret"

"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

"No pain, no gain"

"Pain is temporary, pride is forever."

"I dont believe any person is smart than another. Its the obsession that determines intelligence"

"pressure is a privilege"

"if it was easy everyone would do it"

"People worse than you have done it, so can you"

"Decisions are made by those who show up"

"God will put you back together in front of those who broke you down"

"What's meant for me won't miss me"

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year"

"The MCAT is hard and the MCAT is important"

"NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT"

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

"You didn’t come this far to only come this far"

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown