Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ron Cooper

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

- Confucius

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Richelle Goodrich

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Arthur Ashe

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Rafael Nadal

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

- Maria Robinson

"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."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The exam is just a stepping stone. Your success and happiness lie in you."

- Helen Keller

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

- Winston Churchill

"Education is an important route to success, but let’s not forget that the education system is imperfect. It doesn’t suit everyone’s learning style, which can be frustrating and demoralizing at times. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mother Teresa

"Today is a new day, and regrets will not help you at all. There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Benjamin Spock

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

- William Kingdon Clifford

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Leonardo Da Vinci

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

- William Faulkner

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

- Henry Ford

"No gains without pains."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"is a choice of the athlete, not the sanctioning body. We do substance abuse testing, impact testing, cardiac testing, so we try to sniff out these problems before they even start."

- John Cena

"Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting."

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

"Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all."

- Randi Weingarten

"The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my 'spaghetti legs' routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test."

- Bruce Grobbelaar

"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

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam."

- Sir Terry Pratchett

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."

- Burt Rutan

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

- Henry Ford

"Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it."

- Campbell Brown

"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

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Henry Ford

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

- Wayne Huizenga

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication."

- Gail Devers

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

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

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

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

"Good luck with your exam. Just remember, every multiple choice question is just a chance for you to pick C and be right 33% of the time."

"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

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

"Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream."

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

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

"If you’re totally convinced you’ll fail, you’ll struggle to succeed. But if you believe you’ll succeed, you’ll stand a much better chance."