112 Best Inspirational Thoughts For Students

Students are an important part of the development of society. Here are the best inspirational thoughts for students to motivate them to for improving and strengthen their abilities.

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Let’s find the collection of the best inspirational thoughts for students.

17 Best Inspirational Thoughts For Students

1. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

2. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky

3. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe

4. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane

5. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot

7. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou

8. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

9. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis

10. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

11. “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll

12. “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ― Maya Angelou

13. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama

14. “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.” ― Barack Obama

15. “Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.” ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

16. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.” ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

17. “Suffering is the essence of success!!!” ― A.P.J Abdul Kalam

22 Patience Thoughts For Students

18. “A stumble may prevent a fall.” ― Thomas Fuller

19. “A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen

20. “Be worthy love, and love will come.” ― Louisa May Alcott

21. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” ― Dr. Roopleen

22. “Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.” ― Gail Tsukiyama

23. “Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.” ― Shannon L. Alder

24. “He who can have patience can have what he will.” ― Benjamin Franklin

He who can have patience can have what he will.

25. “Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.” ― Brian Weiss

26. “It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” ― Elizabeth Taylor

27. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” ― Edmund Burke

28. “Patience is a conquering virtue.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer

29. “Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn

30. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” ― Aristotle

31. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” ― David G. Allen

32. “Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.” ― Gustave Flaubert

33. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy

34. “Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto” ― Steve Maraboli

35. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” ― Helen Keller

36. “Trees that are slow to grow to bear the best fruit.” ― Moliere

37. “Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.” ― Lao Tzu

38. “We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.” ― Michelle Obama

39. “Why is patience so important?” “Because it makes us pay attention.” ― Paulo Coelho

19 Growth Thoughts for students

40. “A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” ― Paul Klee

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

41. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.” ― Tara Westover

42. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott

43. “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” ― Roy T. Bennett

44. “Every problem is a gift – without problems, we would not grow.” ― Anthony Robbins

45. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” ― Andy Rooney

46. “Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

47. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett

48. “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence.” ― Tony Samara

49. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” ― William Jordan

50. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung

51. “Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.” ― Roy T. Bennett

52. “Sometimes it is good to be in uncomfortable situations because it is in finding our way out of such difficulties that we learn valuable lessons.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

53. “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.” ― L.M. Montgomery

54. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

55. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ― Rick Warren

56. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” ― Roy T. Bennett

57. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

58. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” ― Shauna Niequist

23 Educational Thoughts For Students

59. “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” ― Nelson Mandela

60. “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” ― Sir Walter Scott

61. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead

62. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

63. “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” ― Mark Twain

64. “Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.” Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” ― Malala Yousafzai

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

66. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ― Malcolm X

67. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost

68. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates

69. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela

70. “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” ― Mark Twain

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

72. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ― Victor Hugo

73. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ― Maya Angelou

74. “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

75. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

76. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” ― Isaac Asimov

77. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

78. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” ― Aristotle

79. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.” ― Baruch Spinoza

80. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” ― Michel Legrand

81. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein

16 Success Thoughts For Students

82. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ” ― Mark Twain

83. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote

84. “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” ― Herbert Bayard Swope

85. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln

86. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is playing, and z is keeping your mouth shut” ― Albert Einstein

87. “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields

88. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ― Tony DeLiso

89. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy

90. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ― W. P. Kinsella

91. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel

92. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett

93. “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” ― Sun Tzu

94. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler

95. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein

96. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill

97. If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” ― Orson Scott Card

15 Attitude Thoughts for Students

98. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” ― Lou Holtz

99. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ― Winston S. Churchill

100. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder

101. “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.” ― Shannon L. Alder

102. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

103. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ― Marcus Aurelius

104. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

105. “Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.” ― Brian Tracy

106. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” ― Marcus Aurelius

107. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” ― Martha Washington

108. “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.” ― Rich DeVos

109. “When you are joyful when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” ― Shannon L. Alder

110. “You are a human with one life and it’s up to you to make it the best life you can.” ― Dan Howell

111. “You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.” ― Sam Harris

112. “It is good people who make good places.” ― Anna Sewell

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