100 Inspirational Study Quotes: Get Motivated In Minutes
February 10, 2017
Liam Porritt
This is a list of my top 100 inspirational study quotes to help you get motivated, study productively and overcome procrastination! I thought it would be cool to have a place where we can all come whenever we’re in need of some motivation.
The list is divided up into 10 different categories, so it will 100% have something that will brighten your day, whatever your mood.
Enjoy, and let me know your favourite motivational quote in the comments at the bottom of this post!
#10
One day, all your hard work will pay off.
#9
The earlier you start working on something, the earlier you will see results.
#8
Life is short. Live it. Fear is natural. Face it. Memory is powerful. Use it.
#7
Do what is right, not what is easy.
#6
We generate fears while we do nothing. We overcome these fears by taking action.
#5
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
#4
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
#3
You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great.
#2
Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.
#1
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
#10
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
#9
Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
#8
A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.
#7
To change your life, you must first change your day.
#6
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
#5
There’s no traffic after the extra mile.
#4
Don’t stop until you’re proud.
#3
Work as hard as you can and then be happy in the knowledge you couldn’t have done any more.
#2
You may see me struggle but you will never see me quit.
#1
Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.
#10
Winners will fail over and over again until they succeed.
#9
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
#8
Be stronger than your excuses.
#7
The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
#6
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
#5
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
#4
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
#3
You have three choices: give up, give in or give it everything you have got.
#2
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
#1
Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
#10
If you can believe it, your mind can achieve it.
#9
If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.
Muhammad Ali
#8
The distance between dreams and reality is called action.
#7
The thing about motivated people chasing their dream is they look crazy to lazy people.
Albert Einstein
#6
The goal is to die with memories not dreams.
#5
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
#4
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
#3
If you have self-esteem, you give yourself the audacity to dream big.
#2
Never let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.
#1
The people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
#10
Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building.
#9
A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.
#8
Doing things properly in the first place is the best way to be more productive later. You simply have less to do.
#7
What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
#6
Productivity boils down to two steps: identify the essential, then eliminate the rest.
#5
Infinite striving to be the best is Man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4
The goal is not simply to get more done, but also to have less to do.
#3
You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win.
Zig Zigla
#2
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
#1
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
#10
All the water in the sea can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, all the negativity in the world can’t get you down unless you allow it inside you.
#9
Worrying is silly. It’s like wandering around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
#8
Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion.
#7
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.
#6
Be the spark everyone needs to brighten up their day.
#5
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you alone to decide.
Cavett Robert
#4
Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.
#3
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
#2
Someone else is happy with less than what you have.
#1
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
#10
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
#9
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
Harold J. Smith
#8
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#7
Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
#6
I gave myself permission to make mistakes. I wouldn’t ever give myself permission not to try.
Steve Pavlina
#5
You either get bitter or you get better.
#4
The lessons you learn on your journey towards your destination will always be more valuable than the destination itself.
#3
When life puts you in tough situations, don’t way ‘why me’ say ‘try me’!
#2
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#1
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
#10
Fear is most commonly an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.
#9
Great things never come from comfort zones.
#8
Don’t let the fear of failure be greater than the excitement of success.
#7
To overcome fear, you must go through it, not around it.
#6
FEAR – Forget Everything And Run… or… Face Everything And Rise. It’s your choice.
#5
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.
#4
Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Steve Jobs
#3
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
#2
Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome.
#1
Most of the things you worry about never even happen.
#10
How can you move onto the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one?
#9
Fail often so you can succeed sooner.
#8
Behind every successful person, there are a lot of unsuccessful years.
#7
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
#6
Doubt kills more dreams that failure ever will.
#5
Nothing you do now can change the past. But I promise you, everything you do now will determine your future.
#4
Inhale the future. Exhale the past.
#3
Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners.
#2
Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever.
#1
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Confucius
#10
Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.
#9
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#8
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dalai Lama
#7
The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today.
#6
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 it is stupid.
#5
Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.
#4
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Edison
#3
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
#2
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
#1
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Please do share your favourite quote is in the comments below!