Motivation Quotes to study better:
Indian students face some of the toughest exams in the world, striving for top marks in a highly competitive scene. This journey is hard and requires not just effort but also strong willpower. Motivational quotes can play a big role in keeping students going, offering them hope and strength to keep pushing forward.
Understanding the heavy pressure these students face, it’s important to give them support. We’ve put together more than 100 motivational quotes from famous people to inspire and energize these students. These quotes emphasize the importance of never giving up, staying positive, and working hard to reach one’s dreams. They remind students that success comes from persistence and believing in themselves.
100+ Motivational Quotes
1. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
2. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya
3. “The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.” – Bhagavad Gita
4. “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can. Likewise, none can destroy a person but his own mindset can.” – Ratan Tata
5. “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
6. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Karim Seddiki
7. “When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship. As the highest worship and devote your whole life to it for the time being.” – Swami Vivekananda
8. “All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
9. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
10. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
11. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
12. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
13. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
14. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
15. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
16. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
18. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
19. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
20. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
21. “If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.” – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
22. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
23. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
24. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
25. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
26. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
27. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
28. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
30. “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
31. “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
32. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
33. “Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
34. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
35. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
36. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
37. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
38. “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
39. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
40. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
41. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
42. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
43. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
44. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown
45. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
46. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
47. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
48. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
49. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
50. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
52. “It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.” – Unknown
53. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
54. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown
55. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
56. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Ed Cole
57. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
58. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
61. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
62. “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
63. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
64. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
65. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
66. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
67. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
68. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
69. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
70. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
71. “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
72. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
73. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
74. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
75. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
76. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
77. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
78. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
79. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
80. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
81. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
82. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
83. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
84. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
85. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
86. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
87. “Be the change that you wish to see in the most high.” – Mahatma Gandhi
88. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
89. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Unknown
90. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
91. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
92. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
93. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
94. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” – B.B. King (echoing a similar sentiment as Nelson Mandela)
95. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
96. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
97. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
98. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
99. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
100. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
101. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
102. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
103. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
104. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
105. “Struggle and perseverance are not just words, but the essence to achieving our dreams.” – Unknown
106. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
107. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
108. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
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