100 Best Student Quotes For Inspiration & Motivation In 2024

Let’s face it, being a student can be grueling at times. Multiple degrees, exams, assessments, and lectures can take their toll.

So if you are looking to overcome the challenges of being a student, here are some positive student quotes that we compiled in 2024 to help provide motivation, inspiration, encouragement, and hustle!

Below, you will also find various quote images that you are welcome to copy, download, or screenshot! Teachers, if you’re looking to inspire and motivate your students, these are for you.

Motivational Quotes for Students

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

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

3. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun

4. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

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

6. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents start charging for it.” – Kim Garst

7. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

8. “Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap.” – Unknown

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

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

11. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” – Lou Holtz

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

13. “Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” – Ross Simmonds

14. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban

15. “Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to.” – Unknown

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

17. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Unknown

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

Inspirational Quotes For Students

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

20. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

21. “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

22. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

23. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” – Unknown

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

25. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

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

27. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

28. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

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

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

31. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

32. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Unknown

33. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

34. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison

35. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes

Encouraging Quotes For Students

36. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk

37. “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you never stop.” – Confucius

38. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

39. “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama

41. “Experience is simply the name we give your mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

42. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

43. “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown

44. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

45. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

46. “The hard days are what make you stronger.” – Aly Raisman

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

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

49. “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

50. “It’s hard to beat a student who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

51. “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

52. “Failure doesn’t mean the game is over, it means try again with experience.” – Len Schlesinger

53. “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

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

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

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

Success Quotes For Students

57. “Success doesn’t come to you, you got to it.” – Proverb

58. “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, Brazilian football legend.

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

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

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

62. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become successful.” – Jaymin Shah

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

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

65. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” – K’wan

66. “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” – Unknown

67. “The difference between a successful student and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Wince Lombardi

68. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

69. “Whenever you see a successful student you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

70. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Unknown

71. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.” – Unknown

72. “Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!” – Tom Hopkins

73. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.” – Vince Lombardi

74. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King

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

76. “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” – Malcolm Gladwell

Education Quotes For Students

77. “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.” – Emily Vara

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

79. “Change is the result of true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia

80. “Without studying, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

81. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

82. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino

83. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean

84. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” – Leonardo da Vinci

85. “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” – Brian Herbert

86. “I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” – Natalie Portman

87. “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.” – Proverb

88. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

89. “If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” – Michelangelo

90. “Study now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never’.” – Unknown

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

92. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

93. “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

94. “One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

95. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

96. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”– Will Durant

97. “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” – Cicero

98. “The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.” – James Clear

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

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

Conclusion To Student Quotes For Motivation, Inpiration & Encouragement

After graduating from university myself, I really did help from some of these student quotes during my studies. But if I was going to say one thing, it would have to be that discipline trumps motivation and inspiration almost 100% of the time! If you are after more, you can see my other posts on learning and teacher quotes.