Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. — Major Owens
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck
To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally. — Eric Williams
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz
The most effective form of motivation is progress. — James Clear
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Motivate Students Quotes
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
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. — Abdul Kalam
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone — Abdul Kalam
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
I know there were students in my class who were smarter than me, but I don’t know if there was anybody who worked harder than me. — Michael J. Massimino
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Self Motivation Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
Personal Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Work Motivation Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
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.
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
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
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
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Being Motivated Quotes
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. — Wayne Dyer
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Motivational Study Quotes
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. — Jerry Seinfeld
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. — Duke of Wellington
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. — Jim Rohn
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. — Richard Baxter
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. — Alfred Sheinwold
A Gallup study found that when people leave their companies, 65 percent of them are actually leaving their managers. — Michael Abrashoff
If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches. — Swami Vivekananda
Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries. — Charles Poliquin
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. — Norman Vincent Peale
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
Management Motivation Quotes
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. — Colin Powell
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words. — Henry Mintzberg
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external. — Stephen Covey
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. — Spike Lee
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. — Brian Tracy
When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. — Abdul Kalam
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Max Eastman
Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action. — Abdul Kalam
As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan. — Maya Moore
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men. — Herbert Baxter Adams
I guess good things come to those who wait. — Kurt Busch
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life. — Gustav Nossal
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough. — Albert Einstein
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible. — Rafe Esquith
You are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long
You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany — Markus Zusak
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. — Nora Roberts
A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable — Frances Elliott Clark
If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs. — Daphne Koller
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown. — Adrien Broner
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact. — George Lucas
People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back. — Chrisette Michele
The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green. — Jill Stein
There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their studies. For example, we don't allow our kids to work during the school hours their freshman year. After that, they can work a little but not so much that it hurts their education. — Michelle Singletary
Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They're motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen. — Seymour Papert
Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs. — Oliver DeMille
I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.” — Eric Thomas
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James. — Willa Cather
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated. — Jack Canfield
When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life. — Myron Tribus
You can't motivate a student you don't know. — Ted Sizer
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning. — Martin Haberman
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard. — Thomas G. Stemberg
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of student motivation quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about student motivation to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of student motivation quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
