50+ Inspirational Student Quotes and Sayings to Motivate Your Learning Journey

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malcolm X

"You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Robert Collier

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Michael Jordan

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Steve Jobs

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Christian D. Larson

"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

"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

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

- B.B. King

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Virat Kohli

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- General Colin Powell

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Jim Ryun

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

- R Collier

"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

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- 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

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

- Aristotle

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

- Venus Williams

"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

"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

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- John Wooden

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Sam Levenson

"The only thing that stands between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase it relentlessly."

- Walt Disney

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Wayne Huizenga

"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

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Oprah

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

- Ben Carson

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Brian Herbert

"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

"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

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

- Confucius

"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

"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

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Harry Potter

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

- Shiv Khera

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

- Chinese proverb

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

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

- Ed Cole

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."

- Frederick W. Robertson

"Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day."

- Premier Brian Gallant

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."

- Anton Chekhov

"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

- Marty Mcfly from Back to the Future

"Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work."

- Usain Bolt

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

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

- Bruce Lee

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"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

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Don Marquis

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Elon Musk

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- A.A. Milne

"To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer."

- Dabo Swinney

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

- BB King

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

- Mark Twain

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

- David Bly

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

- Venus Williams

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

- Walter Bagehot

"Every expert was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Stephen King

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Martin Luther King

"When we empower girls hungry for education, we cultivate women who are emboldened to effect change within their communities and globally."

- Meghan Markle

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."

- Victor Kiam

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Take it all one day at a time and enjoy the journey."

- Kristi Barlett

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort."

- Jillian Michaels

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

- John Green

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

- Helen Keller

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

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

- George Washington Carver

"Seventy percent of life is just showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

- Patrick Ness

"Self-discipline is self-caring."

- M. Scott Peck

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"Take control of your life. The instant you take control, interesting things will come to you."

- Douglas Adams

"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

- Tom Bodett

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Natalie Portman

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

- Mason Cooley

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Anne Frank

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Seth Godin

"You can always be better."

- Tiger Woods

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Minor Myers

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

- Yoko Ono

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

- Omid Kordgstani

"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

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

- James Yorke

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Robert Eliot

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Milton Berle

"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

- Jhumpa Lahiri

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

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

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

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

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Dream big, but start small. The smallest step in the right direction can end up being the biggest step of your life."

"You don’t find willpower, you create it."

- Unknown

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown