Somedays, when you feel extremely low, these inspirational words can encourage you to do better in life. If you are having a bad day or encountered a bad experience, all you need are some words to remind you that everything will be okay.
Students or children, in general, are the most vulnerable beings to get easily overwhelmed by the hardships of life. And they definitely require some inspirational words to escalate their growth and help them view hurdles as lessons.
Here are some of the best inspirational quotes to generate enthusiasm and zeal in students.
1. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
2. “Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.” — Amal Clooney
3. “I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened … it’s normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please.” — Taylor Swift
4. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
5. “Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” — Henry L. Doherty
6. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak
7. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou
8. “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
9. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Les Brown
10. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
11. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
12. “By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” — Charles Spurgeon
13. “Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.” — Lord Chesterfield
14. “Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it.” — Marva Collins
15. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” — George Sheehan
16. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking
17. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” — Philip Stanhope
18. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pearl S. Buck
19. “Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.” — Brian Tracy
20. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” ― Marilyn Vos Savant
21.“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey
22. “Spread love everywhere you go.” — Mother Teresa
23. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” — Lady Gaga
24. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” — Mandy Hale
25. “I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?” — Hayley Williams
26. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” — Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society
27. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
28. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
29. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” — Anne Frank
30. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” — Roald Dahl
32. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z
33. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay
34. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan
35. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs
36. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller
37. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent van Gogh
38. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”―Martha Graham
39. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet
40. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
41. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” — Mark Twain
42. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso
43. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King
44. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” — B.B. King
45. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
46. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
47. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Sun Tzu
48. “Your inexperience is an asset in that it will make you think in original, unconventional ways.” — Natalie Portman</p
49. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. “The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers, and never stop following your fear.” — Grace Helbig
51. “Nobody likes to fail, but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.” — Ben Bernanke
52. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
53. “It’s wisdom that will put all the inevitable failures and rejections and disappointments and heartbreaks into perspective.” — Arianna Huffington
54. “Empathy has gotten me so much farther in not only my life, but in my career.” — Ryan Reynolds
55. “Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.” — Cory Booker
56. “You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk.” — Sandra Bullock
57. “Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.” — Ed Helms
58. “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.” — Michael Josephson
59. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” — Thomas Jefferson
60. “When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” — Ellen DeGeneres
61. “Inpidually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author.
62. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
63. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs
64. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changes really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
65. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” — Sara Blakely
67. “Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.” —Amy Morin
68.“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
69. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
70. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
71. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
72. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford
73. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” — Frank Sinatra
74. “In order to write about life first you must live it.” — Ernest Hemingway
75. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” — Leo Burnett
77. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart
78. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
79. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Deon
80. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
81. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
82. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — Lao-Tze
83. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Hellen Keller
84. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
85. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth
86. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” — Robert Frost
87. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
88. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
89. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
90. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Micheal Jordan
91. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
92. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” — John Lennon
93. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
94. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Suess
95. “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
96. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J. K. Rowling
97. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” — Jeff Bezos
98. “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” — Jay-Z
99. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius …” — Steve Jobs
100. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha
101. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
102. “We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” — Swami Vivekanand
103. “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.” — Francis Bacon
104. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” — Michael Korda
105. “The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” — Stephanie Perkins
106. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” — Henrik Ibsen
107. “Mistakes don’t make relationships as weak as misunderstandings.” — Invajy
108. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha
109. “At any given moment, you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” — Christine Mason Miller
110. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank
111. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” — Oprah Winfrey
Conclusion
At times, all we need is some inspirational quotes that can motivate us to do better. So, this listicle consists of some of the amazing words by people who have influenced the world. And considering students as the most vulnerable beings on the planet, we need to nurture their minds with positive words. Children can be inspired to learn better and grow into amazing humans with these student quotes.
