100 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Study Motivation

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Christian D. Larson

"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

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

- 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

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

- General Colin Powell

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."

- Earl Nightingale

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"Infinite striving to be the best is Man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Maria Robinson

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

- Richard Branson

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them."

- Harold J. Smith

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I gave myself permission to make mistakes. I wouldn’t ever give myself permission not to try."

- Steve Pavlina

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

- Steve Jobs

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

- Seneca

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

- Plutarch

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

"The people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Confucius

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."

- Lemony Snicket

"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

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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

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

- Beverly Sills

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

"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

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

- Tony Gaskin

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

- Anatole France

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose."

- Oprah

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

- Virat Kohli

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

"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

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

- Michael John Bobak

"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

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius."

- Michael J. Gelb

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

- Richard Feynman

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

- Confucius

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

- Robert Collier

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"The expert in everything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Plutarch

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese proverb

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"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 not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing."

- William Arthur Ward

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."

- Dr. David M. Burns

"Your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

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

- Milton Berle

"You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

- Marvin Minsky

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"It will not happen cutting corners, taking shortcuts, or looking for the easy way! There’s only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, repetition, study, and discipline."

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

- Thomas Edison

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

- Zig Ziglar

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

- J.K. Rowling

"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

"Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"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

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

- Confucius

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Anne Frank

"Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion."

- Seth Godin

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Julie Andrews

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough."

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way."

- Doris Lessing

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Ralph Marston

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

- Frank Herbert

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Do not make your goal to be the best. The best is a label. It’s something someone else decides for you. ‘Better’ is more personal."

- Baryshnikov

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Harvey S. Firestone

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

- Washington Irving

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

- John Ruskin

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

- Joe Namath

"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

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

- Minor Myers

"When your dreams become reality, they’re no longer your dreams."

- Hugh Jackman

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."

- James Yorke

"dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

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

- Theodore N. Vail

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

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

- Helen Exley

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

- George Saville

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

- Yoko Ono

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

- Robert Eliot

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

- Buddhist Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

- E. M. Forster

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?"

- Captain Jack Sparrow

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

- Chinese proverb

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it’s only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

- John Von Neumann

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Guy Kawasaki

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

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"To change your life, you must first change your day."

"Don’t stop until you’re proud."

"You may see me struggle but you will never see me quit."

"Winners will fail over and over again until they succeed."

"Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent."

"Be stronger than your excuses."

"Vision without execution is just hallucination."

"You have three choices: give up, give in or give it everything you have got."

"If you can believe it, your mind can achieve it."

"The distance between dreams and reality is called action."

"Never let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big."

"Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building."

"Doing things properly in the first place is the best way to be more productive later. You simply have less to do."

"What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding."

"Productivity boils down to two steps: identify the essential, then eliminate the rest."

"The goal is not simply to get more done, but also to have less to do."

"The earlier you start working on something, the earlier you will see results."

"We generate fears while we do nothing. We overcome these fears by taking action."

"It’s never too late to be what you might have been."

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

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"A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence."

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

"A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"The goal is to die with memories not dreams."

"There’s no traffic after the extra mile."

"Do what is right, not what is easy."

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

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."

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

"Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise."

"It’s not about how bad you want it, it’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it."

"Your dreams are the wings that will help you soar to new heights."

"Determination today leads to success tomorrow."

"Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who choose it."

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."