159 Motivational Quotes For Students Like this comment

Whether you’re looking to boost morale for the upcoming exam season or simply uplift classroom spirit on a day-to-day basis, you’ve come to the right place! Our collection of 159 motivational quotes is perfect for students who need an extra boost! Thanks to the diverse nature of quotes from world leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and inventors like Henry Ford, to artists such as Pablo Picasso and poets, activists, and singers like Maya Angelo, our cluster is sure to spark inspiration in all areas of their lives!

1. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

4. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

5. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

6. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

8. “It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa

9. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

10. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

11. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

13. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

15. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

16. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

17. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

18. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

19. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland

20. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

21. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

22. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

23. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

24. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

25. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Marilyn Monroe

26. “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg

27. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh

28. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

29. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

30. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

31. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

32. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

33. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

34. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

35. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

36. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

37. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

38. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

39. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

40. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

41. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

42. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

43. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

44. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

45. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

46. “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 Schweitzer

47. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

48. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

49. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort

50. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

51. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous

52. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

53. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

54. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” – Seth Godin

55. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

56. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

57. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

58. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

59. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

60. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

61. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

62. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

63. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn

64. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

65. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

66. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

67. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

68. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player

69. “The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

70. “Don’t count the days; make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

71. “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.” – E.O. Wilson

72. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

73. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

74. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

75. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

76. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

77. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

78. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats

79. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

80. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

81. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain

82. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

83. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill

84. “Success is not about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama

85. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

86. “Your life only gets better when you get better.” – Brian Tracy

87. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

88. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

89. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

90. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

91. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

92. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

93. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

94. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

95. “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.” – Michael Phelps

96. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

97. “Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.” – Dwayne Johnson

98. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

99. “Success is not how high you have climbed but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy Bennett

100. “Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.” – Brian Tracy

101. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson

102. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Anonymous

103. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

104. “I don’t have time for excuses. Results are what count.” – Michael Jordan

105. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” – Albert Einstein

106. “Your true competition is yourself. Always strive to beat your own accomplishments.” – Debasish Mridha

107. “Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” – Albert Schweitzer

108. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

109. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

110. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

111. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk more.” – Erica Jong

112. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

113. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

114. “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” – Steve Jobs

115. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.” – Lao Tzu

116. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy

117. “You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.” – Dale Carnegie

118. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan

119. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

120. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

121. “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, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash

122. “Never bend your head, hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

123. “We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Jesse Owens

124. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

125. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

126. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

127. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

128. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

129. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey

130. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

131. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

132. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

133. “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens

134. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

135. “Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.” – Frank Ocean

136. “You’ve gotta get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

137. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

138. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

139. “Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Brian Tracy

140. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar

141. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

142. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

143. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

144. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

145. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz

146. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

147. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

148. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser

149. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

150. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

151. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

152. “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

153. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

154. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

155. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

156. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – William W. Purkey