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130 Most Amazing Motivational Study Quotes – The Ultimate Guide

Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, or just need some inspiration, we’ve got you covered. Check out these motivational study quotes that will leave you feeling more than inspired.

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August 13, 2021

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Whether you’re cramming for a final exam, drowning in problem sets, or struggling to get that essay finished, being a college student is hard. Period.

Balancing what is often an endless stream of academic assignments, personal commitments, and of course, the challenges that come with navigating college life is no easy feat.

It’s no surprise that many students find themselves hitting a wall – I certainly have. But, it’s what you do next that counts.

That is, regardless of how overwhelming, frustrating, or exhausting the situation may have become, finding the motivation to push past this is crucial for any determined student hoping to succeed and accomplish their goals.

Of course, we could all use that little push sometimes; in which case, this guide offers plenty in a series of powerful motivational study quotes that are sure to leave you feeling more than inspired.

Inspirational Quotes to Get You Started

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

2. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m Possible.” Audrey Hepburn

3. “You are capable of more than you know.” E.O. Wilson

4. “Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.” Unknown

5. “You become what you believe.” Oprah Winfrey

6. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, sacrifice and, most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” Pelé

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

8. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr.

9. “It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.” Unknown

10. “Everything that you have ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” George Addair

11. “You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.” Unknown

12. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and, at some point you will.”Venus Williams

13. “If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”David Viscott

14. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” Jay-Z

15. “Strive for progress not perfection.” David Perlmutter

16. “You can’t be the kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. ” Tina Fey

17. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying small stones.” Confucius

18. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt

19. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” Elon Musk

20. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” Unknown

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Quotes for Being Productive

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

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

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

24. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon

25. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” Tim Ferriss

26. “Just do it.” Shia LaBeouf

27. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt

28. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” Jackson Brown Jr.

29. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.” Maria Forleo

30. “ Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” John F. Kennedy

31. “Someday is not a day of the week.” Janet Dailey

32. “Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.” Paulo Coelho

33. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” Elizabeth Gilbert

34. “Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” Charles Dickens

35. “Practice like you’ve never won before, play like you’ve never lost.” Alex Morgan

36. “Grind while they sleep. Learn while they party. Live like they dream.” Jay Simit

37. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” Mark Twain

38. “If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” Nora Roberts

39. “Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” Tony Robbins

40. “Start by doing what is necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi

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Quotes for Studying Hard

41. “Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.” Wayne W. Dyer

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

43. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated.” Collier

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

45. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.” Anonymous

46. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

47. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” Zig Ziglar

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

49. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Tim Notke

50. “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” Abraham Lincoln

51. “You have got to get up every morning with determination if you are going to bed with satisfaction.” George Lorimer

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

53. “Work until your idols become rivals.” Drake

54. “If you aren’t willing to work for it, don’t complain about not having it.” Anonymous

55. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” Estée Lauder

56. “The expert at anything was once a beginner.” Helen Hayes

57. “Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort.” Unknown

58. “Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn’t come easy.” Tim Westergreen

59. “Never regard study as a duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn.” Albert Einstein

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

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Quotes for Calming Anxiety

61. “It’s all about finding the calm within the chaos.” Donna Karan

62. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worry. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” Harv Eker

63. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” Roy T. Bennett

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

65. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Wayne Dyer

66. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.” Bryant McGil

67. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” Babe Ruth

68. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin

69. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” Kahlil Gibran

70. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.” Charlie Chaplin

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Quotes About Never Settling for Less

71. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you cannot hear them anymore.” Michele Ruiz

72. “What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.” Unknown

73. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill

74. “Know who you are. Know what you want. Know what you deserve. And don’t settle for less.” Tony Gaskins

75. “Rest at the end, not in the middle.” Kobe Bryant

76. “The moment you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd

77. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee

78. “Never settle for anything less than what you deserve. It’s not pride, it’s self-respect.” Chanakya

79. “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Emma Watson

80. “The only person who can stop you reaching your goals is you.” Jackie Joyner-Kersee

81. “There is no excuse for not trying.” Barack Obama

82. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Norman Vincent Peale

83. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

84. “There are no limits on what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” Brian Tracy

85. “The surest way not to fail is to be determined to succeed.” Richard Brinsley Sheridan

86. “It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.” Martina Boone

87. “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” Art WIlliams

88. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” Sean Patrick Flanery

89. “Some people dream of success while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” Wayne Huizenga

90. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.” David Goggins

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Quotes For Dealing With Setbacks

91. “Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.” Roald Dahl

92. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” Barack Obama

93. “ Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.” Quentin L. Cook

94. “When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

95. “Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” Christain D. Larson

96. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

97.. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi

98. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

99. “A setback is a set up for a comeback.” D. Jakes

100. “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr.

101. “I don’t like to lose anything – yet I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.” Serena WIlliams

102. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

103. “Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough.” Abdul Kalam

104. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” Maya Angelou

105. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.” Roy Bennett

106. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford

107. “Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” Dara Torres

108. “Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” Jennifer Lim

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

110. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength for tomorrow.” Robert Tew

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Quotes to Keep You Motivated

111. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” Sam Levenson

112. “Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.” Frank Ocean

113.. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton

114. “Don’t let life discourage you. Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” Richard L. Evans

115. “Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King Jr.

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

117. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” Bonnie Blair

118 “If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” Michael Jordan

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

120. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday.” Charles Kettering

121. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” Ziad K. Abdelnour

122. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis

123. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” Earl Nightingale

124. “You must tell yourself ‘no matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” Les Brown

125 “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” Yvon Chouinard

126. “If Opportunity doesn’t Knock, Build a Door.” Milton Berle

127. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” Zig Ziglar

128. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sill

129. “It’s not the skill, it’s the will.” Jim Tunne

130. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill

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Hopefully, these motivational study quotes have encouraged you to get on with that piece of work you’ve been putting off, start that project you’ve been talking about for months, or push through a recent challenge you’ve faced.

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