Quotes for Students
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.-Dr. James G. Bilkey
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"-George Bernard Shaw
You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you'd rather be.-Dexter Yager
Your aspirations are your possibilities.-Samuel Johnson
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.- Les Brown
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.-Louis Aragon
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.-Thomas Fuller, M. D.
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”–George Washington Carver
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”–William Arthur Ward
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”– Aristotle
“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
“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”–Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”–Chinese Proverb
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”–William Arthur Ward
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”–Helen Exley
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”–Chinese Proverb
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. -Robert Orben
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. -Carl Sagan
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. -Jesse Jackson
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.-Helen Exley
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.-Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The wisest men follow their own direction.-Euripides
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.-Alexander Graham Bell.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.-William Arthur Ward
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.-Albert Einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.-Albert Einstein
Action is the foundational key to all success.-Pablo Picasso
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.-Lydia M. Child
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”-David Frost
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. -Ross Perot
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. -Vidal Sassoon
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. -Thomas J. Watson
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. -Thomas J. Watson
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. -Claude McDonald
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -Earl Wilson
The road to success is always under construction. -Arnold Palmer
Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.-Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.-Napoleon Hill
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. -Booker T. Washington
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. -Mahatma Gandhi
When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there. -Tim Tebow
Action expresses priorities.-Mahatma Gandi
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. -Nelson Mandela
And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.-Steve Jobs
When guys say, “I’m not a role model”. Well, yes you are. You’re just a bad one.-Tim Tebow
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.-Steve Jobs
