200 Motivational Quotes For Students With Beautiful Images (2023)

Education plays an important role in achieving your dreams and goals in life. Whatever profession you choose, education will equip you with everything you need to know to successfully perform your duties and responsibilities as a professional. It opens up tons of opportunities from around the world as well. It’s unfortunate that a lot of people fail to secure their own degree because of different circumstances. Many will also give up and don’t continue their schooling anymore. It’s normal to feel like giving up sometimes, but you have to remember that the journey you’re taking right now is preparing you for a better tomorrow.

As a student, exams, and requirements can also become a pain in the head. You have to study, what seems to be, endless pages of thick books and competing with the best students in the class. It can be intimidating and embarrassing when you don’t get the grades you thought you were going to get. But you have to remember that you’re not the only one going through the same feelings. You just have to keep on going. Don’t let the disappointments and failures of the past affect your future. Look for inspiration and keep something that motivates you.

If you’re a student, these motivational quotes we compiled are perfect for you. May these quotes help you survive the toughest years of your student life and encourage you to never give up!

Motivational Quotes for Students

1. Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. – Sasha Cohen

2. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. – Ted Turner

3. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. – Jim Rohn

4. Always desire to learn something useful. – Sophocles

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

6. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

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

8. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

9. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

10. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell

11. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller

12. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

13. Strive for progress, not perfection.

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

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

16. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

17. I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.

18. 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

19. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

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

21. The expert in everything was once a beginner.

22. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

23. Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

24. Some people dream of accomplishing great things. Others stay awake and make it happen.

25. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

26. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”

27. You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.

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

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

30. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar

31. If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo

32. If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.

33. 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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

34. The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. – Paul Halmos

35. The journey is the reward. – Chinese Proverb

36. The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

37. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

38. 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. – Pele

39. Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue. – Sally Ride

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

41. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan

42. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso

43. No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect. – William Shakespeare

44. No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

45. Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb

46. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein

47. It is wiser to find out than to suppose. – Mark Twain

48. It doesn’t matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world. – Santosh Kalwar

49. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

50. In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

51. If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you. – T. Harv Eker

52. If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. – Drew Houston

53. If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world. – Abhijit Naskar

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

55. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C.S. Lewis

56. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

57. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B. F. Skinner

58. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. – Abhijit Naskar

59. Do one thing every day that scares you.

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

61. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer

62. Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. – Henry L. Doherty

63. All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak

64. Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort. – Eraldo Banovac

65. In real life, there is no such thing as second place. Either you are a winner, or you’re not.

66. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer

67. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

68. Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. – Shakuntala Devi

69. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi

70. Learning is not a spectator sport. – D. Blocher

71. I think, therefore I am. – René Descartes

72. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C.S. Lewis

73. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. – Mortimer Adler

74. The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

75. The journey is the reward. – Chinese Proverb

76. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. – Goethe

77. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

78. Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb

79. Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. – Henry L. Doherty

80. We do what we have to so we can do what we want to. – James Farmer

81. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein

82. Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.

83. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn Vos Savant

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

85. The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. – Charles Caleb Colton

86. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. – Denis Watiley

87. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

88. Life has two rules: 1.) Never quit. 2) Always remember Rule #1.

89. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

90. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom. – George S. Patton

91. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

92. Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

93. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

94. You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Ed Cole

95. The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.

96. The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.

97. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.

98. 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

99. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

100. 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 other’s opinion drowned 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

101. 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

102. 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 Rober

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

104. We all can dance when we find music we love. – Giles Andreae

105. The more you give away the happier you become.

106. I think I can. I know I can.

107. It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus

108. Being kind is never wasted.

109. When you know better you do better. – Maya Angelou

110. You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney

111. Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

112. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr

113. No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. – Wolfgang Riebe

114. Never waste a minute thinking of anyone you don’t like. – Eisenhower

115. Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. – Oprah Winfrey

116. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? – Dr. Seuss

117. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. – H. Jackson Brown

118. There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long, I feel this is right for me, or I know that this is wrong.

119. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

120. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

121. Anything is possible. Anything can be. – Shel Silverstein

122. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. – Albert Einstein

123. You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. – Madeleine L’Engle

124. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret Mead

125. Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. – Bonnie Blair

126. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver

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

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

129. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

130. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. – Carol Burnett

131. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

132. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

133. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

134. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. – George S. Patton

135. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

136. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

137. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley

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

139. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin

140. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. – John F. Kennedy

141. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. – Kyle Chandler

142. The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare. – Bobby Knight

143. It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. – Malala Yousafzai

144. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. – Alfred A. Montapert

145. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. – Carl von Clausewitz

146. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James

147. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. – Wayne Dyer

148. Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. – Benjamin Jowett

149. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

150. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran

151. Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. – William James

152. I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

153. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. – Eileen Caddy

154. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. – St. Jerome

155. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino

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

157. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. – Elbert Hubbard

158. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

159. Worry less, smile more. Don’t regret, just learn and grow.

160. The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

161. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

162. 90% of success is waking up every day with a little hope and motivation in your heart.

163. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.

164. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

165. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

166. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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

168. Do your best and God will do the rest.

169. If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it.

170. The question is not who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

171. Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.

172. Worry is a misuse of your imagination

173. Don’t expect to see a change if you don’t make one.

174. Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.

175. Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

176. Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to do it.

177. This is the year I will be stronger, braver, kinder, and unstoppable.

178. Stop doubting yourself, work hard, and make it happen.

179. One day? Or day one. You decide.

180. A positive attitude will lead to positive outcomes.

181. Stop being afraid of what could wrong and think of what could go right.

182. Set a goal what makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.

183. You can only get better through action.

184. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins

185. Either move or be moved. – Ezra Pound

186. 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

187. Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. – Stephen Hawking

188. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison

189. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. – Gordon B. Hinckley

190. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

191. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine

192. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. – Michael Korda

193. If you think you can do it, you can. – John Burroughs

194. The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare. – Bobby Knight

195. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – John Dewey

196. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Nikos Kazantzakis

197. If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. – Jim Rohn