Inspirational Quotes for Students

For the student in your life, a collection of inspirational quotes to inspire, enlighten, and entertain.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

~Marva Collins

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself

~Chinese saying

Learn to see things backwards, inside out and upside down

~John Heider

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

~Benjamin Franklin

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble to difficult to overcome.

~Wilma Rudolph

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

~Yogi Berra

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

~W.B. Yeats

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

 

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

~T.E. Lawrence

 

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

~William Faulkner

 

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

~Patrick Henry

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

~Lanston Hughes

 

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

~Henry D. Thoreau

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

~Marcia Wieder

 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner ~stone of a solid and honorable success.

~Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

~Paul Valery

 

A skillful man reads his dreams for self ~knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.

~Anonymous

 

Hope is the dream of the waking man.

~French Proverb

 

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

~William Shakespeare

 

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

~Cicero

 

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

~Euripides

 

They can because they think they can.

~Virgil

 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

~Theodore T. Hunger

 

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

~Robert Collier

 

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

~Frank Loyd Wright

 

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

~Elbert Hubbard

 

There is only one success ~ ~to be able to spend your life in your own way.

~Christopher Morley

 

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common ~sense and perseverance.

~Owen Feltham

 

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

~Dennis Waitley

 

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

 

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure ~ ~which is:

Try to please everybody.

~Herbert Bayard Swope

 

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

~Josh Billings

 

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

~Earl of Beaconsfield

 

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

~Evan Esar

 

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

~Jospeph Addison

 

Impatience never commanded success.

~Edwin H. Chapin

 

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

~Henry W. Longfellow

 

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

~Shakespeare

 

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

~Albert Einstein

 

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.

~C. V. White

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