Inspiring Quotes to Boost Your Confidence for Test Taking

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"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

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

- E.O. Wilson

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

"Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things."

- Joe Paterno

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

- George S. Patton

"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable."

- Drew Houston

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up."

- Rachel Corrie

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

- Chantal Sutherland

"To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching."

- Stephen Curry

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."

- Theodore N. Vail

"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition."

- Steven J. Ross

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it."

- Washington Irving

"All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Chinese proverb

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

- Buddhist Proverb

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"The man who is a teacher of patience is a master of everything else."

- George Saville

"A book is like a garden that can be carried in your pocket."

- Chinese Proverb

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."

- Thomas Edison

"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence."

- John Ruskin

"Change your thoughts and you will change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King

"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Books are dangerous. The best ones should be labeled with 'This could change your life.'"

- Helen Exley

"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

"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, is that of practicing it."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous."

- Confucius

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"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. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

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

- John Maxwell

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- Viktor Frankl

"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

"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

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Ivan Turgenev

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Virat Kohli

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Arianna Huffington

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Plutarch

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

- Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

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

- Minor Myers

"Rule no.1 is: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule no. 2 is: It’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Elon Musk

"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

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

- Venus Williams

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- A.A. Milne

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Chinese Proverb

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous."

- Robert Benchley

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

- Anne Frank

"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

- Natalie Portman

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Study the past if you want to intuit the future."

- Confucius

"You can always be better."

- Tiger Woods

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- Yoko Ono

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

- General Colin Powell

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted."

- David Bly

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

- Zig Ziglar

"It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible."

- Rollo May

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"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

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Mason Cooley

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."

- Victor Kiam

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"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."

- Pelé

"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

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

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

- Michelangelo

"It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith."

- Priti Chaubey

"What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you."

- Arnold Palmer

"Set tough goals and do not stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- George Lorimer

"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

"Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself."

- Harry Potter

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

- Benjamin Spock

"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."

- Bruce Lee

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

- Robert M. Hutchins

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place."

- Nora Roberts

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Malcolm X

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

- B.B. King

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

- Nelson Mandela

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."

- Lou Holtz

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."

- Lou Holtz

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!"

- Tom Hopkins

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything."

- Vince Lombardi

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top."

- O.J. Simpson

"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.

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes."

- John Maxwell

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

- Herm Albright

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Rafael Nadal

"Follow your fear."

- Tina Fey

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

- Robert Collier

"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."

- Omid Kordgstani

"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

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."

- Francis Chan

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

- Swedish Proverb

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

- William Faulkner

"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."

- George Clooney

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

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you."

- 37 Signals

"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

"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

"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

"If you do not go to the end, why start?"

- Joe Namath

"Without studying the soul sick."

- Seneca

"College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?"

- David Wood

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

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

"Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

"Your studies are the seeds you plant today for the garden of success you’ll enjoy tomorrow."

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

"Education is not about memorizing facts; it’s about connecting with the essence of life itself."

"Education is like a boat that helps you cross the turbulent sea of life. Stay on course, keep studying."

"Uncertainty is a part of the journey, but so is hope. Your studies are your hope for a brighter future."

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

"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. Take it one step at a time – you can get there!"

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

"Instead of looking at the hundred reasons to quit, look at the thousand reasons not to give up."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

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

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

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

"Even if you change your goals and dreams, it’s always going to help you if you can keep going to get that exam grade you are working for. There is no point in giving up. You have come this far!"

"Fake it till you make it."

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

"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

"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

"Imagination… is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness."

"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."