Motivational quotes for you to ditch Netflix and hit the books in no time

“I’ll start studying for exams tomorrow.”

Surely, you might have had thoughts like these looking forward to procrastinating studying till the day just before the exam. Well, more than laziness, it’s the lack of motivation.

Exams are undoubtedly quite important in a student's life, and it is crucial for them to prepare well to achieve their desired results. However, the journey of preparing for exams can be challenging and overwhelming. As mentioned above, at times, students may feel demotivated. This is where motivational quotes come into play.

Motivational quotes for exams can inspire students to get quick and timely bursts of wisdom to get their focus back, work hard, and achieve their goals by overcoming procrastination.

In this article, we have compiled some of the best exam motivational quotes for students that can help them stay motivated and focused on their studies.

Ace your exams with top 100 motivational quotes

1. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson

2. "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself that you can't achieve it." - Jordan Belfort

3. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

4. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln

5. "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

6. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

7. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

8. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

9. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

10. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

12. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

13. "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lou Holtz

14. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas A. Edison

15. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

16. “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

17. “All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

18. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

19. “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” – Ralph Marston

20. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Unknown

21. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, 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

22. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun

23. “What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.” – Ralph Sockman

24.  “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin

25. “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

26. “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

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

28. “Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant

29. “I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.” – Betty Shabazz

30. “You lose nothing when fighting for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.” – Muhammad Ali

31. “We were not born with the unhealthy habits we carry. We had to learn them. So we can unlearn them, and help others do the same.” – Riane Eisler

32. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

33. “Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Edward Young

34. “There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – General Colin Powell

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

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

37. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

38. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

39. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” – Tony Robbins

40. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

41. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

42. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

43. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

44. "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

45. ‘The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma

46. “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

47. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”– Mary Anne Radmacher

48. “To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

49. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale

50. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli

51. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.- Abraham Lincoln

52. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

53. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

54. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs

55. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”- Thomas Edison

56. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”- William Faulkner

57. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” – Michelle Obama

58. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.”- Venus Williams

59. “If you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” – Eric Thomas

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

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

62. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

63. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

64. “There will be doubters, there will be obstacles, there will be mistakes. But, with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

65. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

66. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

67. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

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

69. “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

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

71. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

72. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

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

75. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

76. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver

77. “Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy

78. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

79. “It never gets easier. You just get better.” – Jordan Hoechlin

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

81. “The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Nicole

82. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have" - Thomas Jefferson

83. "You were born to win. But, to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win" - Zig Ziglar

84. "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn" - Harriet Beecher Stowe

85.  "You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life" - Dr James G Bilkey

86. "Tough times never last, but tough people do" - Robert H Schuller

87. “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”- Charles Dickens

88. “You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.”- Ed Cole

89. “Striving for success without hardwork is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”- David Bly

90. “Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe that one reason it will.”- Ziad K. Abdelnour

91. “A person who never made mistakes never tried anything new.”- Albert Einstein

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

93. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to be start to be great.”- Zig Ziglar

94. Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker

95. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss

96. “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

97. Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you – Arnold Palmer

98. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

99. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them — Harold J.Smith

100. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”- Karim Seddiki