55 Motivational Study Quotes That Will Help

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As a student do you ever struggle with a lack of motivation? Are you

need a little motivation to study hard and ace your next exam? Do
you tend to make life harder than it needs to be?

You are supposed to be studying for the BIG test, midterms, or finals
week. But for some reason you keep procrastinating by texting your
friends, playing video games, or working on your college side hustle.

A half hour goes by then it quickly turns into an hour. You are stuck in
this rut of doing anything and everything but study for your exam.

Can you relate?

Motivation is tricky to maintain long-term but in the short-term a few

motivational and inspirational quotes can be just what you need.

So we put together 55 extremely powerful and motivational study

quotes for students that will help you study hard! 

Trust us after you ace it you will feel incredible!

These motivational quotes for students are broken down into the
following categories:

 Overcoming Procrastination
 Removing excuses
 Creating a successful mindset
 Learning to work hard
 Perseverance
  Believing Yourself
 Finding Your Purpose

Overcoming Procrastination Quotes

1. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – Don Marquis

2. Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. – Mason

Cooley

3. Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the
bill. – Christopher Parker

4. Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. –  Victor Kiam

5. My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s

procrastination. –  Ron Cooper

6. Procrastination is the thief of time. – Edward Young

7. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

8. The expert in everything was once a beginner.

Removing Excuses Quotes

9. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the
habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver

10. The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never
excuses himself. – Henry Ward Beecher
11. The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you
stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top. – O.J.
Simpson

12. It’s not the time to look for excuses. – Rafael Nadal

13. If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find excuses.

14. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson,
and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Creating a Successful Mindset Quotes

15. 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

16. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can
do and succeed at. – Stephen Hawking
17. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur
Ashe

18. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get
things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes. – John Maxwell

19. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in

success. – Shiv Khera

20. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to
those who go out and get them.

21. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas
Jefferson

22. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
– Robert Collier

23. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue
that counts. – Winston Churchill

24. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

25. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

–  John D. Rockefeller

26. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their

abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John
Maxwell

Learning to Work Hard Quotes

27. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing
the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich

28. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

29. Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. –  Virat Kohli
30. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live
your dreams. –  Ben Carson

31. The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary. –  Vidal Sassoon

32. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar

33. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. –  Beverly Sills

34. If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it
wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo

35. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires

faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and
dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
– Gail Devers

Perseverance Quotes
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36. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed. –  Michael Jordan

37. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

38. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. –  Henry
Ford

39. You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
– Ed Cole

40. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how
high he bounces when he hits the bottom. –  George S. Patton

41. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

42. By perseverance, the snail reached the ark. –  Charles Spurgeon

Believing Yourself Quotes

43. Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up. – Rachel
Corrie

44. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John
Wooden
45. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

46. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

47. Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself
to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep
going. – Chantal Sutherland

48. To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to
believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to
my self-confidence has been private coaching. – Stephen Curry

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Finding Your Purpose Quotes

49. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and
the will to help others. –  Albert Schweitzer

50. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
– John F. Kennedy

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51. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
– Stephen Hawking

52. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

– Sydney J. Harris

53. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. –  Dalai Lama

54. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the
floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. – Wayne Dyer

55. I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside
of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself
and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of
purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. –  Joel Osteen
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100 Inspirational
Study Quotes: Get
Motivated In Minutes
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 diff erent 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!
SECTIONS

1. 10 Quotes To Get You Started

2. 10 Quotes To Keep You Going
3. 10 Quotes To Get Your Hustle On
4. 10 Quotes To Dream Big
5. 10 Quotes To Be Productive
6. 10 Quotes To Stay Positive
7. 10 Quotes To Learn From Your Mistakes
8. 10 Quotes To Overcome Fear
9. 10 Quotes To Deal With Failure
10. 10 Quotes To Never Stop Learning

10 Quotes To Get You Started

 #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 Quotes To Keep You Going

#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 Quotes To Get Your Hustle
On
#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 Quotes To Dream Big

#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 Quotes To Be Productive
#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 Quotes To Stay Positive

#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 Quotes To Learn From Your

Mistakes
#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 Quotes To Overcome Fear

 #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 Quotes To Deal With Failure

#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 Quotes To Never Stop
Learning
#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

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