Studying is hard, and you need a lot of internal motivation to fight. However, you’ll probably need to work hard to get where you want to be. Fortunately, many of the greatest minds have lived through similar experiences and now know how to motivate us to do the best that we can do.
From Nelson Mandela to Oprah Winfrey, here are some of the best motivational quotes to encourage you to study.
Content
- Persistence and Determination
- Learning and Knowledge
- Focus and Concentration
- Overcoming Challenges
- Time Management
- Setting Goals
- Self-Discipline
- Positivity and Mindset
- Passion and Purpose
- Focus and Distraction
- Embracing Challenges
Persistence and Determination
1. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
2. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
3. “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
4. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
5. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
6. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
7. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
8. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
10. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Learning and Knowledge
11. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
12. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
13. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
14. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
15. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
16. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
17. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
18. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
19. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
20. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Albert Einstein
Focus and Concentration
21. “Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen
23. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
24. “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.” – Lee Iacocca
25. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
26. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
27. “You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
28. “The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Donald Riggs
29. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” – Tony Robbins
30. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
Overcoming Challenges
31. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” – George Washington
32. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Dan Reeves
33. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
34. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” – Muhammad Ali
35. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
36. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
37. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
38. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
39. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
40. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford
Time Management
41. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
42. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.'” – Lao Tzu
43. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
44. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” – Charles Richards
45. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
46. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
47. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey
48. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
49. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
50. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” – Peter F. Drucker
Setting Goals
51. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
52. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
53. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland
54. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy
55. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
56. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
57. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
59. “The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.” – Earl Nightingale
60. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
Self-Discipline
61. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
62. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” – Zig Ziglar
63. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” – Elbert Hubbard
64. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
65. “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” – E.M. Gray
66. “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” – Abraham Lincoln
67. “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” – Jim Rohn
68. “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” – George Washington
69. “Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.” – John Wooden
70. “One discipline always leads to another discipline.” – Jim Rohn
Positivity and Mindset
71. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
72. “The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself.” – Unknown
73. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
74. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
75. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Winston Churchill
76. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
77. “The only thing standing between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
78. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
79. “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
80. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
Passion and Purpose
81. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
82. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
83. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley
84. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
85. “Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.” – W. Eugene Smith
86. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
87. “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost
88. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
89. “Success is not just about making money. It’s about making a difference.” – Unknown
90. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
Focus and Distraction
91. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
92. “The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.” – Robert J. Shiller
93. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
94. “The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Donald Riggs
95. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” – Tony Robbins
96. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
97. “The successful warrior is the average man, but with the focus like a laser.” – Bruce Lee
98. “You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen
99. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
100. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
Embracing Challenges
101. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” – Muhammad Ali
102. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
103. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
104. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
105. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
106. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” – Peter F. Drucker
107. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” – George Washington
108. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Dan Reeves
109. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
110. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford
A great quote that reminds me to stay true to my routine is one of the famous tennis player, Venus William, who said that discipline is the only way to be truly free. Remember, success is a journey; dedication and effort will lead you to outstanding achievements. Stay focused, stay positive, and keep moving forward!