51 Best Motivational Quotes For Students To Inspire Them

Motivation! It is not just a word but a dose of life to the uninspired. Motivation is needed in every phase of our lives. Whether in academics or relationships or in setting and achieving goals, everyone needs motivation. However, when it comes to students like you, there are lots of aspects of a student’s life where they genuinely need motivation. At that moment, motivational quotes for students work like a miracle.

Thousands of motivational quotes have been made and said for students’ motivation, by many influential personalities and sometimes by those who have experienced life’s moods closely.
These motivational quotes for students had had a great impact on students’ lives.

 When does a student need motivation?


We say that childhood and teenage is the best phase of one’s life. Ask anyone who is mugged up in the office and household chores and he/she will give myriad reasons as to why a student’s life is the best. How he/she misses his/her school and college days!

Does that mean Students never feel frustrated?


Well, the reality is, in today’s hectic lifestyle, the students do not have time to spend on themselves. They are busy with school work, assignments, competition, peer pressure to perform well in exams,
juggling between so many co-curricular activities and even losing their sleep.

51 Best Motivational Quotes For Students To Inspire Them

Here are the best 51 motivational quotes for students to encourage them to work hard and achieve whatever goals they have set for their life. These quotes for students will inspire them to come over any hardship in life with determination and confidence. 
For your ease, these inspiring motivational students’ quotes have been categorised into:

  • Motivational Quotes for students to work hard
  • Never give up Students’ quotes
  • Motivational thought of the day for students
  • Hard work vs Talent motivational quotes
  • Do not waste time/ do not procrastinate
  • Stop giving excuses
  • Success quotes for students
  • No regrets quotes for students
  • Self-discipline quotes to motivate students

Motivational Quotes for students to work hard

1. work, motivate, repeat.

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Success is the sum of all efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier

The real fun is in the journey and not in the destination. Similarly, once you taste the glory of success, you will understand that it can have a damaging effect on your nature. A bit of success fills a man with a lot of egos, but the reality is success should make you hungry for more.. even more, hard work and achievements.


 

2. 8 hours of motivation

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

When you look someone on television or on a big platform , getting applause, cheer and respect by each and everyone, you must have wished for such life for you. However, there are very few who wish to work like those people to achieve success.

3. Luck is in your hands.

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

The quote shares the secret of being lucky and that is hard work. If you do not waste your time and channelise your energies in right direction, in learning and gaining knowledge, you will get everything you want.

 

4. Feel Tired? Read this.

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

Make it a habit of completing the task you have undertaken. Never leave the unfinished work. So, next time you think of completing a chapter, do it within the stipulated time.

 

5. Study, work, and dream

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Study when others are sleeping. Work when others are playing and dream when others are wishing.

These are the three most important key points to get ahead of all your other classmates. Study, work and dream. Do not waste your time.

 

6. Success is not easy.

 Nothing in life that is worth anything comes easy. ~ Barack Obama

You want to excel in studies. You want to get good marks in each subject. If you want all these, then you will have to work hard to achieve it.

 

Never give up Students’ quotes

 

7. Keep going

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If you are going through hell, keep going.

It is said that after extreme darkness, the brightest light comes. So, if you are about to give up, just because of lot of pressure you can’t handle, think again. You might be at the threshold where the brightest light is waiting for you.

 

8. Have a never-give-up attitude

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.~ Babe Ruth

 

9. You can win

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. ~ Vince Lombardi

 

10. Train your mind 

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. ~ Ronnie Lott

Don’t be a slave to your roaming mind. Sometimes our mind tells us that a particular task is impossible. At that time we should not listen to it. Instead, we should train our mind to take out positive from every situation.

 

11. If it’s easy it’s not worth it.

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I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

Hard work has its own merits. Every second of time invested in quality learning is worth it because it is going to pay you off with sweetest results.

 

12. Mistakes are good too.

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

 

Motivational Thought of the day for students

 

13. Be extra-ordinary.

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The difference between ordinary and extra ordinary is that little extra.

What is that extra which can make you extra-ordinary? It is that extra sums which you solved, it is that extra time you took out for your personal growth and development, the extra care of your dear ones. All these extras raise your level from ordinary to extraordinary.


 

14. Every day is special

Make each day your masterpiece.~ John Wooden

Don’t waste a single moment. Who knows that day is going to be the best day of your life. 

 

15. You become better each passing day.

Work harder than you think you did yesterday.

Everyday is a new beginning and another chance to polish ourselves. So, if you work each day better than the previous day, nobody can stop you from succeeding.

 

16. A question you should ask yourself every day.

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‘Whose dream is this?’“Mine.”‘So, who is going to work hard?’“Me.”

If it is your dream to become famous, to excel, to do something for the betterment of society, to make your parents proud then, you will have to work hard. No one else can do it for you.

 

17. Fear is your worst enemy

Conquer your fear and build confidence.

If you are afraid of failure, then you must remember that you have already failed if you do not try. 

 

18. Don’t be in the herd 

Work when others sleep so that you can enjoy it when others work.

 

Hard work vs Talent motivational quotes for students

 

19. Hard work can beat talent.

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Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke, basketball coach

You must have heard the story of hare and tortoise, where they have a race and tortoise wins just because of its hard work. This happens in real life too.

 

20. Work harder

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. ~ Derek Jeter.

 

21. This one talent is enough. 

I have only one talent. I can work harder than anyone else. ~ Abhinav Bindra

Hard work, in itself, is the best talent one can have. With this talent, he can surpass all others.

 

22. Outwork them.

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 If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. ~ Ben Hogan

Okay! I agree that you cannot outplay them because they have more talent. But who has stopped you from working multiple times more than those talented lots?

 

23. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything

Irrespective of whether you have the talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything. You can end up wasting it before you realize. ~ Virat kohli

 

24. These are the best examples of talent 

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. hard work is a talent. ~ Abhinav Bindra.

 

Do not procrastinate Quotes for students

 

25. You are unstoppable. (conditions apply)

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If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are willing to learn,no one can stop you.

This inspirational quote for students gives a very important message that learning is a never-ending process. Associate this quote with your studies. If you are curious to know more, if you never hesitate to raise your hand to ask questions, that is a positive sign. It states that you are genuinely eager to learn.

 

26. No one dies of hard work.

Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. ~ David Ogilvy, advertising business tycoon.

 

27. Get up  

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. ~ Jack Dempsey

 

28.  Do or do not.

Do or do not. There is no try. ~ Jedi master Yoda

You either do something or you don’t do, that’s it. People who say that they are trying are actually lying to themselves. For example: If you want to be good in Maths you will either practice maths or you don’t, but can never give this excuse that I sit and try to do bu I can’t, so I leave it.

 

29. Execute your dreams 

Dreams don’t work until you do. ~ John C. Maxwell

If you have heart to dream big, then you should also have courage to do as much hard work as needed to achieve it. 

Stop giving excuses Quotes for students

 

30. It’s the pebble in your shoe.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali

 

31. Be stronger 

Be stronger than your strongest excuse.

 

32. Does Study suck? Think again.

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Yes study sucks, but trust me, not more than failure does.

Sometimes you become tired of doing same activity again and again.Studies become like a headache. Generally, at this point of time, students are heard saying the phrase: ” study sucks.” Then what about the other side of the coin? Think about those unprivileged ones who don’t get the opportunity to study.


 

33. Just Do It.

Start where you are, Use what you have. Do what you can.~ Arthur Ashe

Never give excuses of insufficient resources. Think of those famous personalities who made a mark in this big world, even with lack of resources. 

 

34.  Don’t shy away from labor.

Without labor, nothing prospers. ~Sophocles

 

35. Wrong is wrong. 

Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it.

 

Success quotes for students

 

36. Success never comes before work.

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The only place where success comes before work, is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon

Did you get the intent of this quote? It means that without hard work even success is nothing but an illusion. Take the example of the biggest sportsmen like Sachin Tendulkar or Virat Kohli or the biggest entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Dhirubhai Ambani. Their lives could be the biggest motivation for all the students who aim to make a mark of their own.

 

37. Focus on quality not quantity.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. ~ Ariana Huffington, businesswoman, and author.

You show-off proudly that you study 10 hours a day, but do you really study? If you have not concentrated for the hours you studied, nothing productive will come out of it. 

 

38. Hard work pays off.

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Self belief and hard work will always earn you success.

You must have belief in yourself, in your capabilities. So, start off today without any apprehensions in your mind. Concentrate on your studies and keep setting milestones.

 

39. Secret to success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.  Colin Powell, former U.S. Defence Secretary.

 

40. There are no short cuts to success

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There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

One of the best motivational quotes for students would be that which tells them exactly what to do and what not to do at the same time. This quote perfectly fits in that category. This quote inspires the students not to think of any short cuts for success. Education is a learning process and if you skip the process, you gain nothing.

 

41. Want to be successful or unsuccessful?

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

 

No Regrets quotes for students

 

42. Give your best each time.

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I don’t want to look back and say,”I wish I could have done better.”

Your life should not have any place for regrets. Whether at the time of preparing for exams or while studying regularly, always give your best. At the end of the day, you should be happy that you have given it your 100 %. Remember your biggest competitor is your previous achievement.

 

43. Give your best.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Whenever you give your 100%, a sense of satisfaction prevails in your mind and even on your face. You know that you have given your best.


 

44.  Never lose focus.

Don’t lose sight of your goal. Your countless hours of studying and sleepless nights will pay off in the end.

 

45. Push yourself

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

Waiting for a push, a dose of motivation some inspiration? So here it is, this post. However, this collection can give you only extrinsic motivation that is outer motivation. The most important thing is intrinsic motivation, that is, the motivation within yourself. To get that, you will have to push yourself.

 

46. Start From Now.

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

 

47.  Wish you were better.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~ Jim Rohn

 

 

Self-discipline quotes to motivate students

 

48. Self-Discipline is a motivation in itself

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Distance between your dream and reality is discipline.

Making your own routine and strictly following it should be the norm. It is often seen that students make routine very enthusiastically but fail to follow it after a few days. For this, self-discipline is the key.

 

49. Sky is the limit.

Hard work, will power and dedication- For a man with these qualities, sky is the limit. ~ Milkha Singh

 

50. Period! 

Without self- discipline success is impossible, period. ~ Lou Holtz.

 

51. Want to be under the spotlight?

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Work hard until lamp light of your study table becomes spot light of stage.

Everyone wants to be under spot light. Don’t you? But how would you get it? The answer lies in hard work. Set your goals and devote yourself wholeheartedly to your goal. Soon, you will see your dream coming true.

These motivational quotes for students will definitely infuse a lot of positive energy in you and also motivate you to work hard and achieve your goal.
Which quote did you like best? Which quote did you relate with? Do you have any inspirational quote to share? You are welcome to write that quote in comment box.
Happy learning. Stay motivated.

 

 

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