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Learning is a great thing. Yes, exams can be stressful and you may be feeling forced to learn content that bores you. You’ve questioned the worth of the courses you’re taking and when you’ll ever use this information “in the real world”. However, once you’ve graduated and kicked off your career, you’ll be thankful for – and proud of – the degree or diploma you have under your belt.
We’ve listed some of our favourite educational quotes below to inspire you to push through your college or university experience, no matter how far off the end may seem.
Do you have a quote not listed here that inspires you? Tweet us at @StudentsDotOrg and let us know!
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
― Nelson Mandela
I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.
― Natalie Portman
Education is the best provision for life’s journey.
― Aristotle
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
― Leonardo da Vinci
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
― Malcolm X
All I have learned, I learned from books.
― Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
― Albert Einstein
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
― Natalie Portman
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
― Nelson Mandela
Perseverance is key, and students.org will be right behind you the whole way!