Inspirational Quotes for Students Overcoming Adversity

Best inspirational quotes for students overcoming adversity

1. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
2. A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. —Yoko Ono
3. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein
4. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
5. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney
6. All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone. – Michael John Bobak
7. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.- Benjamin Franklin
8. Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things. —Joe Paterno
9. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. — Christian D. Larson
10. Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, and dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. – Chantal Sutherland
11. By perseverance, the snail reached the ark. – Charles Spurgeon
12. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
13. Do not make your goal to be the best. The best is a label. It’s something someone else decides for you. ‘Better’ is more personal. —Baryshnikov
14. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —Maya Angelou
15. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden
16. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. —Mary Kay Ash
17. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
18. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. —Karim Seddiki
19. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. —Robert M. Hutchins
20. Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela
21. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. —Gail Devers
22. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein
23. Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. —Ralph Marston
24. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
25. Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up. – Rachel Corrie
26. Follow your fear. —Tina Fey
27. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
28. Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose. —Oprah
29. Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. — Thomas Edison
30. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. —Henry David Thoreau
31. Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. —Minor Myers Jur
32. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. —Vincent van Gogh
33. Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light. —Albus Dumbledore
34. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. —C.S. Lewis
35. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. — Chinese Proverb
36. Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask. – Albus Dumbledore ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’
37. How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
38. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near. – Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister.
39. I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. – Natalie Portman
40. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces when he hits the bottom. – George S. Patton
41. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
42. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. —Jim Carrey
43. I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. — Elon Musk
44. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
45. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. —Milton Berle
46. If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it’s only because they do not realize how complicated life is. —John Von Neumann
47. If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.– Michelangelo
48. If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs. —Tony Gaskin
49. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.– Nora Roberts
50. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced. —Vincent Van Gogh
51. If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. – Malcolm Gladwell
52. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
53. In a world where you can be anything, be kind. — Jennifer Dukes Lee
54. In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart. —Omid Kordgstani
55. Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. —37 Signals
56. Instead of looking at the hundred reasons to quit, look at the thousand reasons not to give up. —Kushanowizoom
57. It always seems impossible until it’s done — Nelson Mandela
58. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. —Leonardo da Vinci
59. It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. – Rollo May
60. It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous. —Robert Benchley
61. It will not happen cutting corners, taking shortcuts, or looking for the easy way! There’s only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, repetition, study, and discipline. —nimo_wehearit
62. It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith. —Priti Chaubey
63. Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will. —Venus Williams
64. 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
65. Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein
66. Learning is never done without errors and defeat. – Vladimir Lenin
67. Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. – Leonardo da Vinci
68. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. —Bruce Lee
69. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. – Washington Irving
70. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. – Dale Carnegie
71. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
72. My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. – Charles Dickens ‘David Copperfield’
73. My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s procrastination. – Ron Cooper
74. Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game. — Babe Ruth
75. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver
76. None of us is as smart as all of us. — Ken Blanchard
77. Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
78. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams
79. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th. – Julie Andrews
80. Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker
81. Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. – Victor Kiam
82. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – Don Marquis
83. Procrastination is the thief of time. – Edward Young
84. Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder. — Mason Cooley
85. Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle
86. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore N. Vail
87. Rule no.1 is: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule no. 2 is:  It’s all small stuff. —Robert Eliot
88. Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. – Virat Kohli
89. Set tough goals and do not stop until you get there – Bo Jackso
90. 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
91. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly
92. Study hard, no matter if it seems impossible, no matter if it takes time, no matter if you have to be up all night, just remember that the feeling of success is the best thing in the entire world. —khangal_wehearit
93. Study the past if you want to intuit the future – Confucius
94. 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. – Pelé
95. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count. – Winston Churchill
96. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated. — R Collier
97. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell
98. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King, author.
99. The best way to predict your future is to create it. —Abraham Lincoln
100. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. – Brian Herbert
101. The expert in anything was once a beginner — Helen Hayes.
102. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
103. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. —Walter Bagehot
104. The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph – Miguel de Cervantes
105. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. —Confucius
106. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch
107. The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
108. The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. —James Yorke
109. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
110. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. —Vince Lombardi
111. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand? —Captain Jack Sparrow
112. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer
113. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
114. The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. – Henry Ward Beecher
115. The road to success is always under construction. —Lily Tomlin
116. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
117. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
118. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris
119. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.– C.S. Lewis
120. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
121. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Stills
122. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
123. There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition. – Steven J. Ross
124. There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. – Zig Ziglar
125. There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – General Colin Powell
126. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
127. Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams. – Ben Carson
128. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan but also believe. —Anatole France
129. 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
130. Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader. – Anonymous
131. Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do – Benjamin Spock
132. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. —Albert Einstein
133. Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion. —Seth Godin
134. Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you – Arnold Palmer
135. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. —Alexander Graham Bell
136. 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
137. When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
138. When your dreams become reality, they’re no longer your dreams. —Hugh Jackman
139. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking
140. Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself. —Harry Potter
141. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. —Swedish Proverb
142. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. — A.A Milne
143. You can always be better – Tiger Woods
144. You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday. – Charles F. Kettering
145. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou
146. You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Ed Cole
147. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
148. You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. —Harvey S. Firestone
149. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. —Dr. Seuss
150. You have to be odd to be no.1. — Dr. Seuss
151. You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. —George Clooney
152. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer
153. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. —Drew Houston
154. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. – Shiv Khera
155. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs