Do you sometimes struggle with a lack of motivation?
You’re supposed to be studying for next week’s test. But instead you end up texting your friends, watching YouTube videos, or playing games on your phone.
After procrastinating for an hour, you finally get to work. But you just don’t feel that motivated.
Sound familiar?
Developing long-term motivation is a complicated issue.
But you can stay motivated in the short term by reading inspirational quotes.
So I’ve compiled this list of 40 powerful quotes to help you study hard for your upcoming test
or exam.
The quotes are listed below according to the following categories:
Believing in yourself Cultivating a success mindset Overcoming procrastination Hard work Not making excuses Perseverance
BONUS: of the 6 best quotes from this article. You can print out the posters and put them up at your study area to keep you motivated.
Believing in yourself
1. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
2. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
3. It always seems impossible until it’s done.
4. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Cultivating a success mindset.
5. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
6. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell
7. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
8. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
9. Strive for progress, not perfection.
10. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson
11. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
12. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
13. I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.
14. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes. – John Maxwell
Overcoming procrastination
15. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
16. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
17. The expert in everything was once a beginner.
Hard work
18. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
19. Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
20. Some people dream of accomplishing great things. Others stay awake and make it happen.
21. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
22. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”
23. You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
24. It’s not about how bad you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it.
25. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
26. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
27. If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo
Not making excuses
28. If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
29. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Perseverance
30. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
31. Life has two rules: 1) Never quit. 2) Always remember Rule #1.
32. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
33. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom. – George S. Patton
34. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
35. Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
36. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
37. You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Ed Cole
38. The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.
39. The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.
40. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.
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· Survey finds seven in 10 wary of helping children · Adults urged to brush up basic maths and English
Many parents admit they are baffled by their children's homework and lack the confidence to help out as much as they would like, according to a survey published today.
Nearly one in five parents said they were regularly surprised by the difficulty of the work their children brought home to complete, the survey commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills found. And nearly seven out of 10 said they would spend more time helping with homework if they were more confident in their own abilities in maths and English.
The survey, carried out for the government's Get On campaign, which encourages adults to brush up their basic skills, is calling on parents to gain the confidence to help their children by signing up for a free course. More than nine out of 10 parents agreed that helping their children at home made a difference to their academic achievements at school.
The survey is published the day before the publication of GCSE results and amid fresh concerns about whether the education system gives young people sufficient grounding in basic, but essential, literacy and numeracy skills. According to official figures, 5.2 million adults lack the English skills expected of a 14-year-old and 14.9 million would be unable to match a typical 14-year-old at maths.
Phil Hope, minister for skills, said: "There are still many adults who struggle with their maths and English skills and as a result may experience difficulties in helping their children with homework. This doesn't have to be the case - there are hundreds of free courses up and down the country where adults can brush up their maths and English skills in a friendly, supportive environment.
As a dad I'm fully aware of what a difference it can make to be able to help your children with their learning, so I call on all parents to think about whether they could benefit from improving their skills
a little."
