Here are 81 of the best motivational quotes for students I could find.

What’s my goal?

To inspire you to study and work even harder.

We all need a little tap on our backs, right?

You’ll discover authors like

• Einstein
• da Vinci
• Elon Musk
• And many more

Enjoy!

Good students aim for good grades. Great students aim for understanding. Maxime Lagacé

The real teacher is the student’s curiosity. Thibaut

Think for yourself and question everything. Anthony Pompliano

Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve anything. James Clear

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein

Don’t put in average effort and claim that you want exceptional results. James Clear

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit. Cato the Younger

Humility precedes learning. Maxime Lagacé

Ask the questions you’re not supposed to ask, so you can find the answers you’re not supposed to find. David Perell

A good education leaves students immune to brainwashing tactics. A bad education leaves students brainwashed. Tim Urban (Source)

Don’t be the guy with all the answers. Be the guy with all the questions. Unknown

Keep things simple and remember what you set out to do. Charlie Munger

The key thing to remember about me is that I’m still a student. I’m still in boot camp. Steve Jobs

Learn. Humbly. Relentlessly. Thibaut

The best way to learn something is to do it, then to teach it. Matthew Kobach

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More Motivational Quotes For Students

If you stop, it’s a failure. If you keep going, it’s an iteration. Jack Butcher

The best students in school seek to satisfy their teachers. The best students in life seek to satisfy their curiosity. Johnny Uzan

Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did. Elon Musk

Life gets better when you understand that grades never mattered but how you grade yourself does. Greg Isenberg

Changing and improving your life requires you to destroy a part of yourself and replace it with a newer, better version. Growth is therefore, by definition, painful to some degree. Mark Manson

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. Dieter Rams

Your grades don’t define your intellect. Richard Feynman

Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it. Kevin Kelly

Life gets better when you give up on perfectionism. Greg Isenberg

Give me questions I can’t answer not answers I can’t question. Unknown

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn. Ray Bradbury

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

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation. Evan Williams

The good student contradicts his teacher and makes him more eager to explain and defend the truth. Baltasar Gracián

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine

Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. Richard Feynman

The wise do while fools criticize. Maxime Lagacé

I never pay attention to anything by “experts”. I calculate everything myself. Richard Feynman

Being wrong isn’t a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something. Richard Feynman

Today, a world class education is free online. Only a small fraction of the educated take advantage of it. Angela Jiang

Because it combines thinking, reading, connecting, and simplifying, writing is the fastest way to get smarter. Orange Book

The best learning happens through self-discovery. The things that you go out and discover yourself is knowledge that truly has meaning to you. Preethi Kasireddy

Nothing will teach you how to do something faster than trying and failing. Sahil Lavingia

He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Elie Wiesel

One of the causes of procrastination is a state of overwhelm. Break your task into small, easy steps that don’t look scary and complicated. Gal Shapira

The most important thing to learn in school is that you can learn almost anything, and so you shouldn’t let not knowing about something be an excuse for not doing what you want to do. Go focus and study. Sam Altman

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential. David Goggins

Many people undermine success in the long-term by optimizing for status in the short-term. James Clear

To achieve success, you must be willing to take risks. To take risks, you must be willing to be vulnerable. Therefore, to achieve success, you must be willing to be vulnerable. James Clear

Understanding is more important than memorization! Schools should teach the students how to understand, think, doubt, and question. They should be made open to imagination and creativity. Richard Feynman

The game is to keep learning, and I don’t think people are going to keep learning who don’t like the learning process. Charlie Munger

Reading is how you learn from others. Writing is how you learn from yourself. Doing is how you truly deeply learn. Orange Book

You’ll be successful when learning becomes more important than looking good. Maxime Lagacé

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. Elon Musk

The obedient student seeks the approval of an authority figure. The ambitious student seeks to become an authority figure. The genuine student seeks the truth. @TheStoicEmperor

The past is in your head. The future is in your hands. Unknown

Most things you try won’t work. That’s a good thing. If everything worked, there would be nothing to do. Jack Butcher

The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher. If you really want to learn a topic, then “teach” it. Write a book. Teach a class. Build a product. Start a company. The act of making something will force you to learn more deeply than reading ever will. James Clear

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Elon Musk

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Most successful people simply had the courage to be different in their twenties. Orange Book

Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life. If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you’re eager to learn, even if you aren’t particularly talented, then so much is possible. James Clear

The old gatekeepers were external: credentials, approval, access. The new gatekeepers are internal: curiosity, confidence, consistency. James Clear

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Steven Pressfield

Creating makes you smarter. Consuming doesn’t. Traveling makes you smarter. Tourism doesn’t. Learning makes you smarter. Memorization doesn’t. Focusing makes you smarter. Mindlessness doesn’t. Humility makes you smarter. Pride doesn’t. Orange Book

Be someone you are proud of. David Goggins

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. George Iles

Related: How to Get Motivated to Study – 9 Tips That Work (collegeraptor.com)

Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck. James Clear

The world is your teacher. When you are always looking to learn, you will stop underestimating others. Humility will dawn in your life. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You can learn whatever you want, whenever you want, and do whatever you want with it. The old gatekeepers are dead. The new gatekeepers are your work ethic and ambition. Ed Latimore (edlatimore.com)

The most sustainable edge you can have is the enjoyment of learning. Angela Jiang (Source)

The key to learning is an awareness of where you lack understanding. James Pierce

Get better today than you were yesterday. Kobe Bryant

Don’t lower your ambition to the level of your skills. Build your skills to the level of your ambition. Johnny Uzan

The internet is widening the gap between the curious and the non-curious. The former added hundreds of hours a year of podcasts, blogs and books. The latter mostly news and pictures of other people’s food. Johnny Uzan

Learning happens at the edge of your ability. Endurance builds at the edge of your stamina. Breakthrough comes at the edge of your patience. Anything worthwhile is found on the edge. Johnny Uzan

Always ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Paulo Coelho

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive. Paulo Coelho

Education is what someone tells you to do. Learning is what you do for yourself. Thibaut

The past is in your head. The future is in your hands. Unknown

Hard now, fulfillment later. Maxime Lagacé

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (wikipedia.org)

To remember what you read, don’t reread or highlight it. Summarize it and share it with others. Adam Grant

Training levels are what separates the best, and why you can win things. Tony Popovic

In school, we learn to not question authority. In the real world, we should question everything. Ana Lorena Fabrega

Conclusion

A true master is an eternal student. Master Yi (League of Legends)

Key Takeaways

• Want to be a good student? Learn how to learn.
• Want to be a great student? Learn self-discipline.
• Ask lots of questions. Be smart enough to ask dumb ones. Let curiosity be your guide.
• If you need to memorize, it’s because you don’t understand well enough. Focus on the latter.
• If you’re truly motivated and break down your challenge into smaller chunks, you can solve anything.

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