100+ MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR STUDENTS

We have brought a collection of motivational quotes for students but the first thing comes up in your mind when you hear the word student is someone who is studying in school or college. Well, you are right but if we see with a different perspective, we all are a student in the school of life as said in the following motivational quotes for students. According to many motivational quotes on students, a student is a learner and there is no limitation to keep learning, neither not being in a college nor crossing a certain age. This is the reason why some dropouts are enormously successful today. Does dropping out make them successful? No, a motivational quote for students says that what makes them successful is their journey of being a student even after dropping out. Dropouts like bill gates and Steve Jobs studied a lot more than a college graduate by continuing to live students like mentioned in the motivational quote for students. This is what being a good student all is about; having excellent learning ability without relying upon or blaming the resources.

In this compilation of motivational quotes to be a student, you will get to read the best quotes by eminent people. These motivational quotes for students will explain why and how being a good student is crucial. You must know experts in every industry were a great student while beginning their journey.  A student finds a way to learn what is required in some way or the other. Of course, it may be difficult because life of a student is a bed of roses. But a good student never takes a short cut or makes excuses; he will find his destination at any cost.

Also Read: 68 BEST POSITIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR CAREER

Let’s see what great people have said in these motivational quotes for a student,  

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

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

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

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

“Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it.” – Marva Collins

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering

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

“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb

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

“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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – Dr. David M. Burns

“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

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell

 “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

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

“If you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

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

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

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

“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.

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

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

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

“I've failed over and over and over in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“There will be doubters, there will be obstacles, there will be mistakes. But, with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

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

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

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

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

“If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.” – Jeff Bezos

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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

“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” – Carl Bard

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” – Francis Chan

“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

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

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

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

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

“Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.” – Brian Tracy

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking

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

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich

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

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

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” – Stephen Hawking

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“Work as hard as you can and then be happy in the knowledge you couldn’t have done any more.” – Unknown

“Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” – Anonymous

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” – Anonymous

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Be stronger than your excuses.” – Anonymous

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

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

“The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy

 “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” – Dr. APJ Kalam

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

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – Dr. David M. Burns

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” – Euripides

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander

“Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier

“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you alone to decide.” – Cavett Robert

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucius

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch

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

“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

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

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

“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

“Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese proverb

“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.” — BB King

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch

Use this template

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

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

“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

“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley

“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.”

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

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Stills

“I think it’s possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” — Elon Musk

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

“Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison

“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.” —Abraham Lincoln

 “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

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

“Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” – Anonymous

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” — Chinese Proverb

“You have to be odd to be no.1.” — Dr. Seuss

We hope you loved this collection of motivational quotes for students and redefined your perception of being a student. The biggest reason why smart people fail is that they stop being a student as said in these motivational quotes for students. The day you stop being a student and ignore these motivational quotes for students, you block your way to further success. That’s why you should be motivated and enthusiast for you remaining journey as a student, so that you can get all possible benefits that are mentioned in the motivational quotes on students. Always remember, many people have great potential inside them, but only a hard-working student can reach to it.

Also Read: 80 BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR STUDY