100+ Encourage Students Quotes to Inspire Success & Motivation

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

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

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

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

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

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

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

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

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams and are willing to work for them.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Harvey Mackay

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Effort is what drives ability.” – Carol Dweck

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous

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

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

“Your self-worth is determined by you. Don’t tie it to someone else’s opinion of you.” – Beyoncé

“You’ve got to believe in yourself when no one else does.” – Venus Williams

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

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

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Every mistake teaches us something new.” – Paul J. Meyer

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.” – Samuel Smiles

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Edison

“A man learns to skate in summer and swim in winter.” – Chinese Proverb

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

“Fail forward. Every failure brings you one step closer to your goal.” – John C. Maxwell

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

“You need to set goals that are challenging enough to excite you and realistic enough for you to achieve.” – Denis Waitley

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost

“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

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” – Diana Scharf Hunt

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

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

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy

“Write your goals down. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” – Les Brown

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” – Miles Davis

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

“You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

“Time management is life management.” – Robin Sharma

“One hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.” – Ben Franklin

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer

“Do it now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.’” – Anonymous

“Take care of your minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can wear.” – Anonymous

“To have faith in oneself is the greatest asset one can have.” – Rudolph Giuliani

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

“Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Unknown

“Own who you are. Your flaws and all.” – Unknown

“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively

“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey

“Fake it till you make it until you become it.” – Amy Cuddy

“The power of yet: I haven’t mastered this…yet.” – Carol Dweck

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

“Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try.” – Dr. Seuss

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“An original idea. That’s very dangerous. It might change the world.” – Isaac Asimov

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.” – Steve Jobs

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The capacity to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” – Arie de Geus

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.