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Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

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15 Funny and Motivational Quotes about Homework

When you think of homework, what comes to mind?

Maybe you think of worksheets and penmanship. Maybe you think of math drills and word problems. Maybe you think of busywork and time spent on unnecessary tasks. 

Whatever you think of, we’re pretty sure most people don’t have a positive association with homework. For kids, it means extra school work when school hours are over and they just want to play. For parents, it means time spent supervising or coaxing after a long day at work. And, for teachers, it means hours of grading once the kids go home. 

But, in defense of homework, we think there are some good reasons it exists that make us want to change our negative mindset about it! Homework helps to build responsibility and teach kids to work independently. It develops good study habits in students and can boost self-esteem and develop confidence. Afterall, everyone loves to see that bright red “100%” or “good job!” at the top of their paper! Some homework can help to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. And it definitely teaches life lessons about time management.

At the end of the day, doing tasks that aren’t the most fun but are necessary is a part of life that teaches self-discipline. So here’s to buckling down, focusing hard, and knocking out your homework each day!

We’ve put together a list of 15 quotes about homework to help you look on the bright side of after-school learning. Some are motivational and some poke fun at what can seem like drudgery, but all of them are perfect for your letter board or other magnetic surface in your home or classroom!

• H.O.M.E.W.O.R.K. Half My Energy is Wasted on Random Knowledge
• Homework: the teacher's way of finding out how smart the parents are!
• I don’t procrastinate. I save my homework until the last minute so that, by the time I do it, I’ll be older and wiser.
• Study hard, do good, and the good life will follow.
• Time flies when you’re avoiding homework.
• Procrastination is the thief of time.
• Stay positive. Work hard. Get it done.
• Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve everything.
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• The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.
• “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” - Amelia Earhart
• When in doubt, clear your desk, tie up your hair, grab a coffee, and just start.
• Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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50 Study Motivation Quotes for Student Success

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Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Alexandra Markin

No matter where you are in your education journey – just starting college, studying for finals or about to graduate, being a student can be stressful. When you feel the need for an inspirational boost, this roundup of the 50 best study motivation quotes will help transform every study session into a step closer to achieving your goals.

A 2022 study published by The International Journal of Linguistics Studies (IJLS)  confirms that quotes “can be meaningful and powerful in shaping our thoughts.” So hang that quote above your desk, pin it to your Pinterest board and save it as your phone’s wallpaper.

As an online Business Diploma graduate, I firmly believe in lifelong learning. This post isn’t just a list of quotes; each one has a small bit of wisdom you can apply immediately for more context on how it can help you do well in every aspect of your studies.

All images used below are my own, taken to inspire us to do our best when it comes to studying!

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Positive Motivation Quotes to Get You Started

1. wherever you are is the best place to start, 2. study for just one hour, 3. get ahead by getting started, 4. every day counts, 5. create your new beginning today, 6. choose your hard, 7. consistent small actions define success, 8. make studying a part of your morning routine, 9. start with ambition, persist until completion, 10. reward yourself by starting today, motivational quotes to study hard, 11. the greatest opportunities are hidden behind hard work, 12. wishing won’t get you good grades, 13. talent is overrated, 14. hard work yeilds nice things, 15. study harder by showing up every day, 16. you can only see results by putting in the time, 17. dreams only come true by putting in the effort, 18. learn that discipline always trumps motivation, 19. work for opportunities others miss, 20. don’t wait for inspiration to strike, study motivation quotes to push through and keep going, 21. don’t let procrastination win, 22. embrace difficulties, 23. get off your butt, 24. knowledge is nothing without action, 25. push through the daily study sessions, 26. use it or loose it, 27. change inspiration into action, 28. there are no shortcuts to success, 29. rely on your habits, not motivation, 30. work your plan, study motivation quotes to overcome failure, 31. your glory is in rising up, 32. view failure as a detour, 33. be enthusiastic in the face of failure, 34. keep going until you find the right solution, 35. a modern take on snow white, 36. failure isn’t the worst outcome, 37. don’t give up, 38. minimize your chances of failure, 39. the only real failure is quitting, 40. stand up more times than you fall, study motivation quotes to crush your fears, 41. sometimes change is necessary, 42. your dreams live on the other side of fear, 43. action breeds courage, 44. your potential is behind the hard things, 45. be brave enough to exploit your own courage, 46. embrace your fear, 47. everyday is an opportunity to face fears, 48. face everything and rise, 49. do you best today and try again tomorrow, 50. everyone starts at zero.

If you’re struggling with procrastination or self-doubt, these positive study motivation quotes can reignite your determination and rekindle your enthusiasm for learning.

The quotes in this section will inspire you to take that first step, reminding you that the journey of getting your degree begins with one small action followed by a thousand others.

No matter where you are or what you have available to you, it’s the best place to get started.

You may not have the fancy stationary, the newest computer or any idea how you’re going to get through that required math course, but you’re exactly where you need to be to start.

Improvement only comes from action!

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player

Starting is the hardest part. Set a timer for 60 minutes and see how you feel when the timer goes off. Chances are you’ll want to keep going.

“Studying for 1 hour is less than 5% of your day. You can make it through 60 minutes.” – Alexandra Markin, founder of Online Student Life

The only way to get ahead in life is by getting started, no matter how small your steps are in the beginning.

If you’re looking for small, actionable steps to help you get started, read the post How to Study When You Don’t Feel Like It .

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain, American Writer

They say there’s no time like the present. Don’t waste it!

“The greatest amount of wasted time is time not getting started.” – Dawson Trotman, Author

Every single day that goes by is an opportunity for you to create the life you want.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson, American politician

Everyday you have a choice: work hard for the life you want, or stay exactly where you are.

“Studying is hard. Not having the life you want is hard. Choose your hard.” – Alexandra Markin, founder of Online Student Life

It’s easy to take a day or two off from studying. Work towards studying daily even if it’s something small like reviewing flashcards, reading the chapter summary or doing one problem.

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

Don’t procrastinate. When you make studying a part of your morning routine, your progress will flourish.

“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” – Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States

A reminder that ambition does not achieve goals; it’s the work you must put in to get there.

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and thinker

It’s the series of small steps that lead to success, however small. You can’t harvest without first planting the garden.

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor

Theses quotes will encourage you to rise above your comfort zone and embrace the fact that success is only achieved through hard work and dedication. Stay motivated to study with the powerful quotes in this section.

If you can keep studying through tough times and hard subjects, you’ll be miles ahead of your peers. The best opportunities present themselves when uncovered behind the invisible wall of hard work.

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers, American columnist of Ask Ann Landers

Wishing won’t work without with a plan of working hard.

“You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for.” – Daniel Milstein, Ukrainian entrepreneur

If you’re struggling with your subject of study and feel you’re just not smart enough to become a doctor, lawyer, entrepreneur or literally anything else, don’t give up!

Read the book Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. You’ll be surprised at the one (fairly easy) thing successful people do that makes them who they are. (Hint – they weren’t born with it).

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke, professor

Becuase the whole point of studying hard is so you can have nice things, correct?

“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer

Commit to your success by showing up for your studies. Every. Single. Day.

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing, musical composer

There are no shortcuts to success. You have to put in the time.

“Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.” – Usain Bolt, Jamaican runner

Dream hard, work harder.

“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Napoleon Hill, author of Think And Grow Rich

College is hard, and online college can be even harder without learning how to master self-discipline , especially if you’re working on a self-directed schedule. It’s the difference between success and failure, so push through when motivation wanes.

“You won’t always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” – Alexandra Markin, founder of Online Student Life

Studying is not glamorous. Romanticize it all you want, but college is full of late nights and long hours. Only those who tenaciously climb the academic mountain will be heavily rewarded.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison, American inventor

As you’ll find on your education journey, inspiration is fleeting. Don’t overthink it: clear your desk, open your books and just start.

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King, American author

When you encounter challenging subjects or the temptation to procrastinate, these quotes serve as a powerful reminder of our goals and the importance of consistent effort.

You worked hard to get into university – don’t let procrastination take over.

“If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” – Thomas J. Vilord, author

Face challenging subjects head on. Whether it’s math, coding or biology, embrace the fact that these difficult classes are what makes us stronger.

I found math courses the most difficult. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, I focused on taking detailed math notes from the textbook, took my time with the course, and did as many practice problems as possible. By the end of the course, I felt my self-confidence in math had much improved.

“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” – Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer and businesswoman

You can productively use your desk chair for one of two things – studying or Netflix. I can tell you from experience that the latter won’t buy you what your dreams desire.

“The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.” – Ann Landers, American columnist, “Ask Ann Landers”

kKnowledge is the foundation, but action is the catalyst for change and progress. Without action, knowledge remains only untapped potential.

“Knowledge + action = the life of your dreams. Keep pushing.” – Alexandra Markin, founder of Online Student Life

It’s not the end degree goal that deters most students; its enduring the daily study sessions for the weeks that turn into months, and the months that turn into years.

Keep yourself motivated by tracking your sessions. There’s something satisfying about tracking your study hours and looking back at a completed monthly page showing your progress.

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you down. It’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer

When you go too long in between study sessions, you tend to forget things you’ve learned. This only compounds in courses where you have 30 weeks to finish. Don’t re-learn concepts; keep on a consistent study path and put what you learn to use on a daily basis.

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.” – Dale Carnegie, author of How To Win Friends and Influence People

There are some fantastic Instagram studygram accounts out there. But apart from the pretty desks, fancy stationary and inspirational day-in-the-life videos, you have to change your inspired mind into plausible action.

“This is your sign to stop scrolling social media, get out your books, and study. At some point inspiration must change into action.” – Alexandra Markin, founder of Online Student Life

There is no way to shortcut learning concepts or doing a math problem over and over again until you get it right. Success takes time and effort.

“There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar, American author

Building good study habits is what allows you to keep going on days when motivation is low.

“Motivation is what sets you in motion, habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun, Former US Representative

The planning process can be so enjoyable for a lot of us: setting up a new bullet journal habit tracker or a new Notion page, but more important than that is execution. Your pretty plan is there to serve a purpose – bettering yourself.

Like the setup in the photo below? Go to the post Essential Bullet Journal Spreads for Online Students for the details on how to create it!

“Plan your work and work your plan.” – Napoleon Hill, author of Think And Grow Rich

Everyone experiences failure, even the straight A students. It should not be seen as something negative, rather as a valuable learning experience. I learned more from my low test scores and math problems I got wrong than I did from easily acing a concept or course.

Embrace the failures; they are there to serve you.

Rise up after every failure.

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t view failure as the end; view it as finding another way to reach your goal.

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar, American author

It can be hard to bounce back from failing an exam or not getting accepted into your college of choice, but know there is always another option out there, and that’s something to be enthusiastic about.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister

There are more ways that won’t work than those that will, so keep going until you have found a solution.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison, American inventor

This is one of my favourite quotes I found years ago on none other that Pinterest. I like to repeat this to myself every time I look in the mirror when I feel times are tough.

“Mirror mirror on the wall, I’ll always get up after I fall. And whether I run, walk or have to crawl, I’ll set my goals and achieve them all.” – Unknown

Even if you’re not sure your major is exactly the right choice for you, it would be worse to have never tried.

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

You never know what’s just around the corner: an offer of an internship, your dream job or an opportunity you didn’t expect that will change your life – hang in there!

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison, American inventor

It’s inevitable that you will fail. It happens to everyone, even the best students. But you can minimize the times you do fail by always being prepared.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States

Failures aren’t really failures, they’re lessons. The only time you actually fail is when you give up.

“The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.” – Jen Sincero, author of You Are A Badass

Failure doesn’t always have to be dire, like failing a class. It can be missing a few percentages away from an A, having your project turn out differently than you planned or having to miss a study session with your best friend.

Whether you realize it or not, these small things are all failures you’re overcoming, learning from, and getting stronger because of.

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

Embarking on a journey of higher education is a noble pursuit, and it’s completely normal for doubts and fears to cloud our path forward.

These quotes will help you overcome any fear you may have!

If you have a good job but know you can do better, but you have to leave that job to go back to school, do it. You have to leave your comfort zone to be able to achieve greater things.

“Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John Rockefeller, American business magnate

Moving across the country or even to another continent to attend your dream college can be scary, but often it’s really only the fear of the unknown that scares you.

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair, real-estate developer

Sitting around worrying about your studies while you procrastinate watching Netflix or scrolling TikTok isn’t going to make anything better. Getting up and doing something about it is the only fix.

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. “ – Dale Carnegie, American author

The whole reason you’re going to college is to learn new things. Welcome the challenge! Anytime you go beyond what you know you are certain to fail, but without failure there is no growth.

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and thinker

You are your own person, having unique talents to share with the world. Use others only as inspiration, and never try to imitate them.

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and thinker

Don’t worry – your fear will only last until you’ve started doing the thing. Once you’ve got the hang of it, all perception of fear will dissipate.

If you feel you struggle with this, read Susan’s book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway , with techniques for turning fear, indecision, and anger into power, action, and love.

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers, author

Emerson has some great quotes, especially on fear and doubt. You can practice facing your fear head on everyday: starting to tackle that concept you know nothing about, learning how to use Notion or sending that email to your professor to ask for help.

These may seem insignificant, but fears are not just for life’s bigger issues.

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and thinker

Which definition of fear will you choose today?

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” – Zig Ziglar, American author

It takes courage to overcome your fears. Sometimes, you just need to try again tomorrow. Give yourself grace.

“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, author

Don’t compare yourself to someone else’s middle. We all experience fear as we embark our next journeys.

“Even the greatest were beginners. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.” – Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer

Now that you’ve been inspired by this post and have saved some of these to your Pinterest board, it’s time to sit down and study.

You have to power to do anything you set your mind to; don’t underestimate yourself.

What’s your favourite quote? Share with us in the comments below!

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40 Motivational Quotes for Students: Get Inspired to Study Hard

Updated on October 21, 2021 By Daniel Wong 159 Comments

Reading motivational quotes for students can give you a quick boost of inspiration to study.

Let me ask you a question…

Do you ever 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 videos, or playing games.

After procrastinating for an hour, you finally get down to work.

But you just don’t feel that motivated.

Sound familiar?

Developing long-term motivation is a complicated issue.

But you can become more motivated to study in the short term by reading inspirational quotes.

So I’ve compiled this list of 40 motivational quotes for students to help you study hard.

The quotes are listed below according to the following categories:

• Believing in yourself
• Cultivating a success mindset
• Overcoming procrastination
• Not making excuses
• Perseverance

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Quotes about 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

Quotes about 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

Quotes about overcoming procrastination when it comes to studying

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.

Quotes about 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

Quotes about not making excuses

28. If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse . – Ryan Blair

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.

Quotes about developing perseverance as a student

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.

Like the article? Please share it with your friends.

October 5, 2015 at 1:07 pm

Hi Daniel, thanks for the inspirational quotes. I’m going to share it with my son.

October 5, 2015 at 1:18 pm

Hi Roland, you are welcome. I hope your son likes them!

November 13, 2018 at 11:32 pm

Thank you very much itwas very inspiring

December 2, 2018 at 1:20 am

Hi Daniel….nice quotes…thanks so much

July 20, 2020 at 1:29 pm

Nice one keep on

July 23, 2020 at 8:23 pm

Wonderful n inspiring.

October 14, 2020 at 6:17 am

Hi Daniel, I found these very useful. Great thanks.

February 14, 2019 at 11:44 am

February 25, 2019 at 2:53 am

help me its my board exams gonna start need real motivation tipssss I feel like m gonna fail even after studying

August 8, 2019 at 10:42 pm

Sir Great Quotes.. IT WAS VERY beautiful………..going to inspiring me..

January 8, 2020 at 4:17 pm

Thank you dear Daniel. Really I was going through a tough time in midst of my competitive exams. But these quotes really made me to feel motivated. Once again my heartfelt wishes for your work.

January 23, 2020 at 6:37 pm

March 11, 2020 at 6:43 am

Thank you for this it’s really helpful and aiding for me

June 3, 2020 at 3:53 pm

Moltivating indeed Thanks for the exposure

July 19, 2020 at 10:31 pm

Thank you so much I can finally stop dreaming about getting a scholarship abroad and actually work hard to get it

September 21, 2020 at 4:46 pm

Hi Daniel, thank you so much for the quotes it really helps me as a student beginner I need inspirational quotes.

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November 18, 2019 at 7:09 pm

Hiii Daniel thank you for the inspirational quotes. I love it so much. Can i have more inspirational quotes to read from you??☺️☺️. Thank you so much☺️☺️.

October 22, 2021 at 5:39 pm

I’ve learnt more

January 23, 2020 at 1:38 am

All quotes worth great. Good inspirational messages if someone make use of any quote.

January 7, 2021 at 11:24 pm

Thank you so much..really feel motivated..thanks daniel

October 5, 2015 at 3:58 pm

Indeed, very inspirational, Daniel

October 5, 2015 at 4:00 pm

Glad that you think so, Jeremy 🙂

October 5, 2015 at 4:24 pm

Thank you Daniel. Funny … how we know and yet not till reminded again. Appreciate the very inspiring and helpful sharing. I’ll share it with my son and friends. God bless. Shalom!

October 5, 2015 at 4:50 pm

You’re welcome, Lynn. I hope that your son and friends like the quotes! God bless you too.

October 5, 2015 at 4:57 pm

So inspirational, thanks!! ??

October 5, 2015 at 7:14 pm

Glad you like the quotes!

October 5, 2015 at 8:55 pm

Thank you very much for the inspirational quotes. Will share them with my students.

October 5, 2015 at 11:17 pm

Hi Helen, you’re welcome. I hope they find the quotes motivational!

May 3, 2020 at 8:10 am

Mr. Daniel .Thank you so much for sharing these awesome quotes. These quotes are helping to inspire me even more. 👍👍👍

October 6, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Thanks Daniel’ for the inspirational quotes. I will definetly share with my friends and Stephen my son.

October 6, 2015 at 2:39 pm

You’re welcome, Kevin!

October 7, 2015 at 12:34 am

Thanks a lot, Daniel! This encouraged me to focus on becoming a better person and aiming for progress than perfection. Plus, it’s right on time for my multiple midterms this week!

October 7, 2015 at 9:00 am

That’s great to hear, David. All the best for your midterms!

October 8, 2015 at 10:55 am

Thank you so much for sharing these powerful quotes. I can use these with my students.

October 8, 2015 at 11:38 am

You are most welcome. I hope they help your students!

October 12, 2015 at 5:05 am

I still have 2 weeks preparation for the exam, but I gain more motivation from some quotes! Thanks for sharing this to me 🙂

October 12, 2015 at 8:32 am

All the best for your exams!

October 18, 2018 at 9:36 pm

Fantastic quotes

August 11, 2018 at 8:04 pm

Thanks Daniel Just what I needed Now I’m getting back into my study Cheers

August 11, 2018 at 11:02 pm

Daniel, I thank you for being there when no one else is. You picked me up when I was down, you’re my hero greetings to the fam.

August 14, 2018 at 1:32 pm

Thanks Daniel for the quotes. The are indeed worth practicing.

August 15, 2018 at 7:12 am

Hey your words are really inspirational and i believe its gonna help me. Thank you Daniel for these words

August 20, 2018 at 1:42 pm

Thank you for these great quotes. I am using them with my high school students daily in their journal writing.

August 24, 2018 at 2:34 am

Thanks for the quotes………😃😃😃😃

August 25, 2018 at 4:32 pm

It’s was..great..great..great quote for me..

August 25, 2018 at 11:32 pm

Thanks sir nice quotes

August 28, 2018 at 10:41 pm

Thank you so much I was so lazy and felt like 70 % is okay for everything but the quotes made me feel like I can reach 101%

August 30, 2018 at 4:16 am

Thank you Daniel, I just shared this with my friends…

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.”

August 30, 2018 at 11:02 pm

Great quotes I will use these this school year

September 1, 2018 at 1:23 pm

Great Work..

September 12, 2018 at 7:56 pm

Thanks for sharing such impactful quotes. Students are future leaders and your quotes and helping them nurture this learning mindset. Let’s work together to help our future generation grow with inspiration, self directed learning and growth mindset.

I would definitely refer these quotes in my keynote on “Learning to Achieve our Dream”..

Thanks again.

September 14, 2018 at 6:10 pm

It’s great work of yours…. You may not know but it really motivates us a lotttt!! Thanks for writing such!!

September 17, 2018 at 11:17 pm

Thanks daniel for these motivational quotes

September 22, 2018 at 2:54 am

hi thanks for the quotes

September 24, 2018 at 9:51 am

Thank you so much Daniel I shared with my friends

September 24, 2018 at 11:18 am

I am on the West Coast and my Son is a Freshman on the East Coast. I have been sending your quotes to motivate him while he studies. Thank you for beinging so many great ones together.

October 1, 2018 at 12:33 am

hi daniel,thanks so much its all i need

October 5, 2018 at 4:29 pm

Kudos,,,, Daniel this article has helped so much I’ll do the best I can to achieve my goals… 🚿 blessings to you

October 8, 2018 at 1:09 pm

Thanks so much daniel for these motivational quotes i read you article and get more infomation about quotes

October 26, 2018 at 6:13 pm

Thanks Daniel for these amazing Quotes,I’m sure this will help me get ready for my exams after 2 weeks

October 29, 2018 at 5:41 am

Very nice article, really thanks!

January 16, 2019 at 8:37 pm

I want to become a doctor so inspired me for hord work

October 30, 2018 at 2:54 pm

Thank you for sharing these very inspiring and motivating quotes, some of these will be printed and hung on my printing shop walls for inspiration. God Bless you.

November 1, 2018 at 2:57 am

Thanks Daniel! These really helped to get my head down and do some revising!

November 1, 2018 at 3:39 pm

Thank you so much for sharing this. I love your posts and read it whenever I need a push.

November 6, 2018 at 8:54 pm

Thanks for the quotes.I will share it with my pupils.

November 12, 2018 at 6:29 pm

woow,really it is highly motivational sayings

November 12, 2018 at 7:23 pm

i really lost motivation past few days, and i didnt know how to get started. the motivation only works for minutes and then finished. hope this one works:)

November 14, 2018 at 1:43 am

Love this I’ll share this with my classmates … Really nice quotes

November 14, 2018 at 3:04 pm

such a inspirational quotes about studying

November 17, 2018 at 2:13 am

Thanks, Daniel! You really inspired and empowered me!

November 24, 2018 at 8:09 pm

Wow, Really inspirational.. Helped for self motivation.

November 28, 2018 at 6:03 pm

Thank you sooo much Daniel……..now i can study without any distractions…😊

November 28, 2018 at 10:22 pm

I AM JUST 12 YEARS OLD AND I LOVE YOUR QUOTES AND ITS SO INSPIRING ME AND MY BROTERS LOVED THE QUOTES AND WE ARE SOON GOING TO PUBLISH THIS TO THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE AND MAY GOOD BLESS YOU WITH ETERNAL GLORY.

December 5, 2018 at 1:16 am

Too inspirational thoughts. Heart touching quotes..

December 8, 2018 at 6:50 am

Very Inspiring Quotes. Keep the great work. Thank you.

December 10, 2018 at 8:37 pm

you woke me up from the dead…thank you so much Daniel

December 15, 2018 at 9:16 pm

Thanks for your inspiration it has really made me to be somebody today

December 28, 2018 at 10:21 am

your quotes are really inspiring …. thank you soo much for this wonderful quotes …it almost changed my mindset towards many things

January 5, 2019 at 12:20 am

Thanks a lot….it was really inspiring for me……….😊

July 6, 2019 at 7:43 pm

January 7, 2019 at 2:21 pm

i really inspired by your quotations. it changed my mindset . Thank you so much

January 19, 2019 at 5:16 am

January 22, 2019 at 10:28 pm

Great quotes Daniel. They inspired and motivate me a lot. Thanks for sharing.

January 23, 2019 at 10:49 pm

Hello Daniel, Those are really helpful. Thank you!

February 1, 2019 at 2:15 am

Thanks Daniel. To master a skill, you need 10,000 hours of continuous practice. I like the quote of Michael “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. “

February 8, 2019 at 6:55 pm

Amazing motivational quotes. It will definitely motivates students. I have also seen quotes on beautyofsoul blogs. There motivational videos are also interesting.

February 9, 2019 at 7:06 pm

hi Daniel I find these quotes very awful and of course awesome you are great and your quotes too

February 11, 2019 at 11:15 pm

Gr8 job Daniel ur quotes collection is really inspiring me keep up the good work brother

February 15, 2019 at 8:05 pm

Great comments, thanks

February 18, 2019 at 10:32 pm

thanks alot. It inspires me

March 7, 2019 at 1:58 am

Hi Daniel, thanks for these wonderful thoughts. I am a longtime reader of your blog and your articles have encouraged me enough in all these years.

March 12, 2019 at 1:30 am

Thank you for sharing great quotes. The collection of your quotes really inspiring.

March 15, 2019 at 9:44 pm

Thanks so much for these tips. I keep on reading them again and gain. I have shared them with my son and its improvement is noticeable. Thanks once more for taking your time to help parents. I admire your article. Lilian

April 4, 2019 at 4:24 pm

it’s amazing Daniel it has all sorts of things which I required . Thanks……………

April 14, 2019 at 3:52 am

Such are great thoughts. I liked a lot 🤩

April 15, 2019 at 6:53 pm

OMG!! This was very motivational!! This is worth reading for everytime i loose hope for studying! We all have been inspired by this together with the friends i’ve shared it with on whatssap!

May 3, 2019 at 3:21 am

Hi Daniel. You got a great deal there. Those quotes really inspired me to write more to my soon to be polished book. Thank you.

May 9, 2019 at 8:01 pm

Nice Quotes!!!!

May 16, 2019 at 8:29 pm

Virtually motivating and mind captivating,how i wish those concerned read this daily-“what you feed your eyes,mind with develops you and make you who you wanna be”

June 9, 2019 at 6:37 am

Hi daniel, thanks for your inspirational quote. I will share it with my friends

June 27, 2019 at 12:40 am

It helped me a lot for my studies

June 28, 2019 at 11:39 am

Thanks Daniel, Its really inspiring. I’ll share with my friends.

July 5, 2019 at 2:35 pm

Thanks for these great and inspirational thoughts of great minds. The positive thoughts of the great people not only motivates us to forward in life but they also shed light when we are in a state of gloom.

July 6, 2019 at 9:12 pm

I really do find the Thomas Jefferson quote more interesting

May 16, 2020 at 1:05 pm

It is soo amazing

July 16, 2019 at 1:08 pm

It’s very nice and inspirational and I’m really glad to read it ,,its good

July 19, 2019 at 9:32 pm

I always regret for not achieving this and that but through your motivational quotes I believe in myself no matter how things going

July 20, 2019 at 2:01 pm

That’s good but not exactly what I was looking 🤔 anyways thank you so much 💙

August 6, 2019 at 4:02 am

Thanks for these motivations

August 9, 2019 at 4:53 pm

Thank you very much so inspiring quotes!

August 19, 2019 at 12:29 am

Thanks Danny for your help

August 22, 2019 at 3:33 pm

I get motivated from these types of post but after few hours same thing.i am not able to determined to do a thing, I always quit after some issues come.but i come here and get motivated.

August 29, 2019 at 6:39 pm

I am a teacher .i will write your quotes in the blackboard everyday.

September 2, 2019 at 7:31 pm

thank you so much💕 this is all I need. Good luck to me for tomorrow’s exam🙏🏻

September 9, 2019 at 4:52 pm

Thanks for that inspirational quote, am loaded up with a lot of assignments and up coming examination. I don’t know where and how to start and somehow come to a point of giving up. however all this quote really evoke my feeling to continue without giving up.

September 23, 2019 at 3:58 pm

I just love these quotes, so inspirational.Thanks Daniel for the quotes,they are a big deal

October 6, 2019 at 12:29 pm

Waoh!. Daniel thank you so much for these motivational quotes..it’s really helpful.. I must send them to my fellow students

October 25, 2019 at 4:23 pm

Hey….ur quotes were thought provoking Thanks daniel

October 29, 2019 at 6:59 pm

Very beautiful quotes for my learners. Thank you, much appreciated!

November 16, 2019 at 9:32 am

Thank you sir.. For giving me… This type of motivation…

November 20, 2019 at 10:04 pm

All the articles are very nice 👏 and it’s very powerful quotes for all learner’s Thank you so much for the beautiful quotes 😊☺

November 27, 2019 at 6:29 pm

Hey Daniel ,am student ur quotes are really inspiring I pasted some of the most inspired quotes in my room it helped me never quit in life

December 13, 2019 at 3:57 pm

‘If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.’

That got me. thanks danial 🙂 🙂

December 31, 2019 at 2:57 pm

Thank you so much. it’s was all inspiring

January 2, 2020 at 1:12 pm

Thank you so much for sharing these powerful quotes.

It helped me a lot

January 18, 2020 at 10:44 pm

Thank you sir for such an motivational and inspirational quotes

May 16, 2020 at 1:35 pm

Haah what wounderful motivation

January 22, 2020 at 10:44 pm

Thanks so much daniel for these motivational quotes i love you article. Thanks for sharing with us.

January 23, 2020 at 6:31 pm

Thanks a lot for these amazing quotes

February 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm

Hi, Daniel Ipressing is this one because it is so helpful to me& my sister thank u so much 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

February 14, 2020 at 4:30 pm

How your mind Daniel? I really impressive such qoutes .. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so much 😍

March 3, 2020 at 1:12 pm

Excellent projection…. highly motivated..inspirational

March 7, 2020 at 8:23 pm

Excellent I feel to much better after reading you’re quotes and I hope for the best of me and my efforts. . Thanks for inspiring me ……..

April 26, 2020 at 1:14 pm

Glad I came across this. I have 2 kids at school going ages and this is very inspirational…

I’m going to print some of them for sure

May 13, 2020 at 3:38 pm

Thank u .it’s really inspiring

July 2, 2020 at 6:14 pm

thank for that my dear.

July 10, 2020 at 10:19 am

Thank you, for the quotes …..very inspiring.

August 10, 2020 at 2:48 pm

I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for your hard work in complying this educative and well motivated piece of inspiration note.

I had a presentation to do as to talk to some student who are taking their external exam, and this thing has helped me a lot in giving out my message. Once again thank you 🙌

August 12, 2020 at 1:56 pm

Everything have its power such as these immortal words

August 22, 2020 at 5:43 am

Thank you very. These are nice comments that have really motivated me in one way or the order.

October 5, 2020 at 11:12 pm

Very nice and inspiring quotes…thanks for sharing…

October 18, 2020 at 9:05 pm

I love all of the quotes

December 22, 2020 at 1:46 pm

The quotes are very motivational and inspirational to readers like me. Thanks for sharing!

January 22, 2021 at 5:17 am

Your words helped me a lot … something more than A LOT 😉 I couldn’t study, I couldn’t focus, but now I’m going to do MY BEST 🙂 thanks for cheering me up 😉

March 12, 2021 at 6:01 am

Mr Daniel thank you so much for this motivation, it inspired me a lot. Please can I have more motivational quotes about studying when schools are closed.

March 24, 2021 at 3:15 am

thanks Daniel you just woke me up from my sleep, now I know why I am in the world you will surely live long with more wisdom

April 13, 2021 at 3:10 pm

i like the quote

April 23, 2021 at 3:29 am

Very nice and motivational quotes….

April 26, 2021 at 5:58 pm

Wow.. Thank you for this Inspirational Quotes. God bless you Sir. 谢谢💖💖💖

April 28, 2021 at 7:25 am

Nice quotes

May 6, 2021 at 3:46 am

dude like thanks for the wise words of knowlege

May 6, 2021 at 10:54 pm

Wow this is so inspiring. It makes me feel like never giving up that there is still a purpose for me in the future. Thank you

September 25, 2022 at 4:36 pm

Thanks so much, is encouraging.

December 22, 2022 at 12:11 am

Thank you for the best quotes! I am going to share them with my students! I hope they will really inspire them

March 11, 2023 at 10:55 pm

It was really inspired me. Thank you so much

September 16, 2023 at 8:12 pm

thank you that will be very help for me and many who are gonna read this

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51 Motivational Quotes For Students Who Need Inspiration

Lauren Holliday

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The struggle is real -- especially for students and recent grads.

I know because once upon a time I was a college student, and it wasn’t exactly fun. You have to juggle working with interning with studying with going to class and attempting to have a social life.

Then, you graduate, and you still find yourself poor and underemployed. It can suck. But eventually, if you keep on fighting through the suckiness, you’ll get past the crappy stage and into the prospering phase. I know this because I’ve made it past that hump. And if I can do it, you can do it.

One thing that got me through the bad times was encouraging quotes. My thinking is that they can help you too. That’s why I collected a massive list of motivational quotes for students, for work, and for life! I hope they help you as much as they’ve helped me.

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Motivational quotes by famous people

1. michael jordan.

I love this inspirational quote by Michael Jordan because it's easy to forget that the more you do, the more you fail. As they say: "You win some. You lose most."

If you're not failing, then you're either not doing enough, and/or you're not challenging yourself enough.

Not only that, when you graduate and step into the real world, you won't have a syllabus or an academic calendar that tells you exactly what you can expect for every day of the year. That's a big deal. That fact alone is why you're going to fail a lot at first. Just remember it's a learning experience , and the more you practice, the more you'll succeed.

2. Seth Godin

Seth Godin  reminds us that the majority of people will try to shoot down our dreams. They'll poke holes in your work, your dreams and your ideas -- especially when you have little experience and are just starting out. Keep an open mind and listen to their suggestions, but don't let them deplete you or even stop you. 

As one of my mentors always says: "You only need one yes." One day, you'll get that "yes," and you'll be so glad you didn't listen to the naysayers. 

3. Oprah Winfrey

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life becuase you become what you believe. 

When you think of Oprah Winfrey, you probably think of a freakin' superhero. I don't blame you. She is an incredibly influential and successful woman and the queen of a multimedia empire. How could anyone but a superhero do that, right? Wrong. Winfrey reminds us that she was an ordinary person who dared to dream of extraordinary things. You can do the same. You should do the same!

4. Tupac Shakur

So many of us overanalyze failures -- or what feels like failures -- over and over again in our heads. This is not good because then we begin to believe we are a failure. 

In this quote, Tupac Shakur is telling us that just because something ends -- a job, a relationship, whatever -- life still goes on. You have the power to forget about it, and move the eff on. 

5. Martin Luther King

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in life, you're going to face A LOT of disappointments. You may not get that dream job you wanted or your boyfriend might dump you or you might not get that dream job and your boyfriend might dump you simultaneously.

Whatever the disappointment is, you must remain hopeful because, after all, hope is what keeps us alive.

6. Peter Thiel

Traditions are like cliches. They are everywhere. They may sometimes even be correct, but often they are justified by nothing except constant repetition.

At the beginning of Peter Thiel's commencement speech, we learn he almost didn't become the founder of PayPal. Instead, he almost became a lawyer, but when he didn't get a coveted clerkship, he decided to give up being a lawyer, and instead, he founded PayPal. 

This is what Thiel had to say about it: 

“Looking back at my ambition to become a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an alibi for the present. It was a way to explain to anyone who would ask—to my parents, to my peers, and most of all to myself—that there was no need to worry. I was perfectly on track. But it turned out in retrospect that my biggest problem was taking the track without thinking really hard about where it was going.”

Some of you may be considering graduate school simply because you have no idea what the hell you want to do with your life. Most of the time -- unless you want to be a doctor or a lawyer -- more school isn't the answer. Figuring out what you're good at and what you enjoy doing is. 

7. Tina Fey

There will always be assholes in the workplace, which is why Tina Fey's quote is so important. You don't want jerks to get away with holding you back, but you also don't want them to make you miserable. What a quandary, right? 

Fey's suggestion? Ignore them and reallocate all that pent up energy you would've spent hating them to positive energy you use to outperform them. 

8. Desmond Tutu

If you're neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

At work, you'll inevitably notice a lot of "yes men." Yes men just do as they're told. They don't ruffle feathers. And they never speak up -- even when they know something a superior is doing is wrong and hurting the business. 

Please don't ever be one of these people, who either doesn't speak up or doesn't support someone who does speak up, when you know they're actually right. 

Why? I want a steady paycheck you say, and so you'd rather not tell your boss he's wrong. I get it. I do. But there's safety in numbers. If you know something is wrong, speak up and/or stand up for the people who aren't afraid to speak up. Your voice can make a difference. 

9. Dharmesh Shah

Success is making the people who believed in you look brilliant.

There are going to be people who believe in you and those who won't. When you find a mentor or a boss or even a friend -- anyone who believes for you, sticks up for you, gives you a job or a reference when you're inexperienced -- TLDR: Don't make them regret it. They took a chance on you, so you owe them your everything to be a success.

10. Ray Allen

Don’t ever put yourself in the position to wish you could hop in a time machine.

Ray Allen really moved me in his " Letter to My Younger Self ." His father was in the military because they moved a lot, and the kids made fun of him because he "talked like a white boy." 

At the time, he felt pretty alone, so he focused all of his energy into basketball. Still to this day, he pretty much is alone, he admits. But, today, he's at peace with his life and happy. 

When you're younger, life is all about fitting in, but when you're older, life is all about standing out. Standing out is how you land jobs, how you get paid more and how you make it to the top. So don't steer away from standing out. Embrace it.

11. Ira Glass

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

I remember my first eBook, my first email campaign, and my first blog post, unfortunately. It's unfortunate because they all sucked. But here I am seven years later successfully doing these things without wanting to cry every time I do. 

You have to be persistent. Great athletes don't become great players overnight. They persist. They keep going back to the court or the field. You know why? Because they love what they do.

Find something you love to do, and then don't stop doing it. Keep practicing.

12. Tim Cook

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well.

I wasted two years of my life pursuing business school, regardless of the fact that I sucked (and despised) at math. Business classes were all math all the time, and it made me delay doing my passion -- writing.

One day, I remember calling my father crying. I told him I couldn't take it anymore. I needed to study something I was good at -- writing. I was told him I thought I wanted to apply to journalism school. I'll never forget what he said to me:

"Lauren, do what you love, and the money will follow." 

Don't tell him I said this... But he was right. 

How many of you enrolled in a major that you're not good at or don't enjoy? Just stop. Take a moment to figure out where you are excelling in life, and think about giving that an honest try. You can and should make money doing what you love because then you will do great work.

13. Dr. Seuss

You have to be odd to be No. 1.

This quote pretty much speaks for itself. (And Dr. Seuss was never a man of many words) 

14. Steve Jobs

I saved the best for last: Steve Jobs . 

"I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."

Don’t settle, but also, don’t take Jobs’ quote the wrong way. It takes time to find the perfect career if there is such a thing. You have to take on less exciting gigs before you make it to Oz. If you don’t then you may never get there.

Keep testing different career paths and skill sets by freelancing. Apply to jobs for interview experience, but if it’s a job you won’t be happy at, or don’t feel right about (assuming you’re making money freelancing), then don’t accept the offer — even if it is for more money.

Don’t settle for a full-time job you hate. Hack freelancing until you know what it is that you want out of a career, which may not turn out to be an actual full-time, in-office gig.

Funny Inspirational Quotes

15. you can, and you should.

16. Be a unicorn

Be a unicorn in a field of horses.

17. Handle it

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18. find an enemy.

Try to live everyday like Elle Woods after Warner told her she wasn't smart enough for law school.

For the weirdos who haven't seen Legally Blonde (and you should), Elle Woods applies (and gets into) Harvard after her ex-boyfriend, Warner, breaks up with her. 

What Elle didn't know was that Warner had dumped her for a new, "more serious" girlfriend. Just when she was about to pack up and move home, devastated, she got mad.

By the end of the movie, she had won her first real law case and graduated as valedictorian of her class. 

Yes, this is a movie, but it also has a little nugget of wise advice in it: Find an enemy .

That's what DJ Khaled does anyways. And as it turns out, so do a lot of successful people . 

19. Swag < Gas

Want to know a funny thing about rich people?

You'd never know they're rich unless you were close to them. That's because rich people don't typically buy fancy cars -- if they even own a car. They don't make it rain on everyone in the club. They work. And they work a lot. And they save a lot -- that is, after all, how they got rich in the first place.

If you have massive dreams -- like to own a football team someday -- you have to plan and save for that far, far in advance. In the words of Gary Vaynerchuk : 

Nobody -- unless they were a trust fund baby -- ever bought the Rams when they go skiing for a week when they're 24.

Motivational quotes about work

20. you can fail at anything.

Some of you may be choosing a career you're not excited about -- in fact, a lot of you may be. Whether you're trying to please your parents or trying to keep a steady paycheck, remember that nothing in life is guaranteed.

You can work at the same job for 49 years, and one day, they could just fire you; give you one week of severance pay, and send you on your way. They may not even want to. Maybe the company got acquired or the company is not making enough money and needs to cut staff. 

In life, you just never really know so take a logical chance on something you actually enjoy doing.

21. Accomplish something

22. Hustle, hustle real hard

"If you can work 40 hours a week and be satisfied with what you have, more power to you. I definitely plan to work less than 40 hours a week during retirement. However, if you are complaining about life and why you don’t have enough money and only work 40 hours a week, you need to get your head checked. We live in a very competitive society and anybody who wants to be better than average can’t work 40 hours and expect to be more than they’re not."

Do people really only work 40 hours per week or less ? That's a question that sends Financial Samurai into a rant that I can't help but agree with. 

It's a great article. Read it .

23. Do a good job

24. Your shoes don't matter

25. Don't be normal

"Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don't be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don't settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place ."

26. Mediocre - meh

You did not wake up to mediocre.

27. You have the power to do more

I urge each and every one of you to seek out projects that leave the world a better place than you found it. We used to design ways to get to the moon; now we design ways to never have to get out of bed. You have the power to change that.

Motivational quotes about success

Profit is the reward for correctly understanding an aspect of reality ahead of your peers.

29. Understand the Law of Averages

The odds are never going to be in your favor, but if you keep playing you’re gonna win.

30. Consistency is key

No matter which career you choose, in today's overly competitive market, you have to be a serial learner. Serial learners are naturally curious. They're great at Google. And they find blogs and influencers to follow and read on the reg. 

31. Rejection is good

32. Know what you want

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

33. Build your own solution

Never bring your boss -- or anyone for that matter -- a problem without a potential solution. People will think you're a Negative Nancy and only see problems in things. Always offer a solution(s). 

Take Uber CEO Travis Kalanick , for example. He didn't just hate taxi cabs and complain about it. He went out and designed his own solution. 

34. Practice

35. Persist

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Just because you have a college education does not make you entitled to success. You must have grit, persistance and determination.  

36. Don't give up

This quote actually reminds me of a quote by Will Smith:

"The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?"

It really is that simple. The harder you hustle, the more you win, and the more you win, the more you get. 

Motivational quotes about life

You must learn how to learn. No one trains people anymore. You have to figure stuff out on your own. You want to be "problem solver." Bosses love problem solvers because they find solutions to their problems without bothering their bosses every two seconds. 

Be proactive. Figure out what your boss needs to get done, then get it done... right. This isn't as difficult as it may seem. Just get really good at Googling, and make friends with a lot of people smarter than you. 

38. Don't be vanilla

The world wants you to be vanilla.

39. You are who you're around

"The most frequent life advice I give people is, be really careful who your friends are. Your friends should be better than you. Your friends should take you to new levels. A lot of people will just hang out with the same friends, and they don’t see that their friends are pulling them down. My mother used to tell me if you hang around with dogs, you become a dog. You’ve got to know when to find new friends."

For a long time, I tried to fit in with the wrong people -- "the cool kids." Today, those cool kids are still where they were in high school. They don't have careers. They're still waitressing. They're still partying until four in the morning. 

If I kept hanging around with them, I'd be where they are -- nowhere. 

So, yeah, choose your friends wisely. 

40. Anything is possible

41. You have power

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

The most common example of this mistake is job interviews.

When you walk into a job interview, remember the interview is a two-way conversation. You need to make sure they're also a good fit for you. 

I won't go into the intricacies of negotiation, but you definitely should learn more about it here and  here . 

42. Your twenties are the defining decade

Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.

“Our twenties are the defining decade of adulthood. Eighty percent of life’s most defining moments take place by about age 35. Two-thirds of lifetime wage growth happens during the first ten years of a career. More than half of Americans are married or are dating or living with their future partner by age 30. Personality can change more during our twenties than at any other decade in life. Female fertility peaks at 28. The brain caps off its last major growth spurt. When it comes to adult development, 30 is not the new 20. Even if you do nothing, not making choices is a choice all the same. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know or didn’t do.”

The above is no one's opinion. It is cold, hard facts.

Your twenties set the stage for the rest of your life. How well you do in your twenties is directly correlated to how well you'll do in your thirties and forties. If you don't take them seriously, you will wake up one day, and regret it.

Consider skipping that third Spring Weekend in a row, and consider taking on an internship or working as a volunteer. Whatever you do, don't forget to gain identity capital, aka professional work experience. 

Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

It's hard to trust that everything happens for a reason when you don't get something you worked really hard for or wanted really badly. I know this because I haven't gotten a lot of things I've wanted in life. But as it turned out, things always worked out perfectly -- usually even better.

44. Don't settle

It's death to settle for things in life.

45. Change your life

Nobody owes you anything. Remember that, and you'll be golden. 

46. Make good decisions

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of the decisions we make. We literally make millions of decisions that add up to the consequences that are our lives.

47. Your life is up to you

If you want better, go get better.

48. Love > Like

“Like is watered-down love. Like is mediocre. Like is a wishy-washy emotion of the content. Athletes don’t do it for the like of the sport. Artists don’t suffer for the like of art. There is no “I like NY shirt,” and Romeo didn’t just like Juliet. LOVE. Now that’s the powerful stuff. Love changes things -- upset things -- conquers things. Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and will ever happen.”

49. No = good

50. Turn bad into good

Take your broken heart, and make it into art.

Life is going to break your heart nine ways to Sunday. Don't let it break you though. Mope for a day, or even just an hour, and then drop all of your emotions into something productive.

Whether that's writing or learning Excel, it doesn't matter. Just find something to distract yourself from your broken heart. It works. 

51. Just keep swimming

How bad do you want to be successful?

I'll leave you with this motivational video. I hope it motivates you as much as it motivates me. Good luck!

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Education Quotes for Teachers and Students

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Whether you’re a teacher or a student, a new school year is an exciting time. These education quotes will get you ready to enjoy teaching and learning anytime.

School pushes us out of our comfort zone, teaches us to dream big, and encourages us to achieve our potential.

In celebration of all the amazing things that education, we’ve put together a list of the best quotes about school, learning, and teaching.

So whether you’re a parent, student, or teacher – we’ve got you covered as you get ready for another year of school.

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Top 10 Education Quotes

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration . Bill Frist

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett 

Quotes about Education

Whether you’re at the beginning of a new year or semester of learning, or aren’t quite sure where your knowledge will take you next – look no further than these inspiring education quotes.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin Fisher

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. Shakuntala Devi

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. George Carlin

Even the genius asks questions. Tupac Shakur

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein

Development is a series of rebirths. Maria Montessori

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W.B. Yeats

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Learning Quotes

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

The learning process continues until the day you die. Kirk Douglas

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Ray Congdon

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go! Dr. Seuss

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work. William Crawford

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid. G.K. Chesterton

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz

Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S. Truman

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. Claude Bernard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world. Eric Hoffer

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman

I’m still learning. Michelangelo

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle

Do these learning quotes have you ready for more knowledge? See our list of 8 Essential Books for Graduate Students and keep learning at the highest level.

School Quotes

A new desk, a handful of freshly sharpened pencils, the first page of a new workbook… there are no days quite like school days!

From Kindergarten to college, celebrate all stages of education and their role in shaping our futures with these great school quotes.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school. Terrance Deal

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate . Carol Burnett

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Richard Livingstone

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Harold Howe

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure. Ambeth Ocampo

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiosaki

The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Dr. Seuss

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. Madeline Hunter

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplierg

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

School is a place that provides education, and education is the key to life. Unknown

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto

I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites. Jim Benton

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book for everything. Robert Frost

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.Margaret Atwood

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker

Education begins at home . You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. Geoffrey Holder

Teaching Quotes

Teachers have the amazing power of being able to inspire young minds.

Celebrate those who help children and young people achieve their potential with these quotes about teachers and teaching.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage . A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Ruth Beechick

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. John Holt

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. Brad Sherman

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers

We hope you’re feeling inspired and excited to go back to school!

Enjoy these education quotes and quotes on teaching and learning anytime you need some extra schooling for your mind. Let us know your favorite below!

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This is the best quote for education The quote which i love in this list is “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

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101 Inspirational Quotes for Homework: Embracing Challenges

Unlock your full academic potential with our handpicked collection of 101 inspirational quotes for homework. From motivation to perseverance, let these original and uplifting quotes fuel your drive and turn study sessions into moments of triumph!

101 Inspirational Quotes for Homework

1. “Believe in yourself, for you hold the power to make your dreams come true.”

2. “Embrace the challenges, for they are the stepping stones to greatness.”

3. “In the pursuit of knowledge, you find the strength to conquer the unknown.”

4. “The journey may be tough, but the destination is worth every step.”

5. “Your uniqueness is your greatest asset; embrace it and shine.”

6. “Every obstacle is an opportunity in disguise; learn from them and grow.”

7. “Success is not an accident; it’s the result of hard work and determination.”

8. “Be the change you wish to see in the world, and inspire others to follow.”

9. “Your attitude determines your altitude; stay positive and reach new heights.”

10. “Dare to dream, and have the courage to turn those dreams into reality.”

11. “Failure is not the end; it’s a chance to learn and come back stronger.”

12. “Each day is a blank canvas; paint it with colors of love and purpose.”

13. “Greatness lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.”

14. “Find strength in your vulnerabilities, for they make you human and relatable.”

15. “You have the power to create the life you desire; start taking action today.”

16. “The world needs your unique gifts; don’t hide them, share them with the world.”

17. “Success is not measured by material possessions, but by the impact you make on others.”

18. “Opportunities are abundant for those who seek them with an open mind.”

19. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment; create it with your actions and determination.”

20. “Change your thoughts, and you’ll change your world.”

21. “The greatest achievements often come from the greatest risks.”

22. “Life is a journey; enjoy the ride and cherish every moment.”

23. “Believe in the beauty of your dreams, and they will unfold before your eyes.”

24. “Your potential is limitless; never underestimate what you can achieve.”

25. “Embrace failure as a stepping stone to success, not a roadblock.”

26. “In the face of adversity, let resilience guide you to victory.”

27. “The power to shape your future lies in the choices you make today.”

28. “Never compare your journey with others; each path is unique and beautiful.”

29. “Small acts of kindness can create ripples of positivity that touch many lives.”

30. “Success is not found in the destination alone but in the journey you undertake.”

31. “Even in the darkest moments, hope can light the way forward.”

32. “Your worth is not defined by external validation; it comes from within.”

33. “Every day is an opportunity to rewrite your story; make it a bestseller.”

34. “Doubt may knock on your door, but let self-belief welcome it with open arms.”

35. “Challenges are the raw materials for building a remarkable life.”

36. “Your dreams are your treasures; protect them and make them come true.”

37. “Never underestimate the power of perseverance in achieving your goals.”

38. “The world needs more kindness, and you can start by being kind to yourself.”

39. “Don’t let fear hold you back; let it be the fuel that propels you forward.”

40. “Success is not an endpoint; it’s a continuous journey of growth and improvement.”

41. “Your potential is like a seed; nurture it, and watch it blossom.”

42. “The only limits are the ones you place upon yourself.”

43. “True strength lies in vulnerability, for it opens doors to genuine connections.”

44. “Your worth is not defined by the opinions of others; it is found in self-acceptance.”

45. “Every ending is a new beginning; embrace change with an open heart.”

46. “Passion and purpose are the keys that unlock the door to greatness.”

47. “A positive mindset can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.”

48. “In the pursuit of happiness, you’ll discover the true essence of life.”

49. “You have the power to write your story, so make it an epic adventure.”

50. “Strive for progress, not perfection; each step forward is a victory.”

51. “Let go of the past; it’s the present that holds the seeds of your future.”

52. “Your dreams may seem distant, but your determination will bridge the gap.”

53. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step of courage.”

54. “Your potential is like a flame; fan it with action, and it will ignite greatness.”

55. “Failure is not a scar to hide but a badge of honor to wear proudly.”

56. “Be a beacon of hope for others, and you’ll light up your own path.”

57. “The pursuit of knowledge is a lifelong adventure that never loses its charm.”

58. “Your life is a canvas; paint it with the colors of joy, love, and gratitude.”

59. “Success is not about the applause; it’s about the impact you leave behind.”

60. “The power of a smile can brighten even the darkest of days.”

61. “Dare to be different, for it is in uniqueness that you find your true strength.”

62. “In the pursuit of greatness, be kind to yourself and patient with your progress.”

63. “Your actions shape your character; make them a reflection of your values.”

64. “Cherish the little victories, for they are the stepping stones to big achievements.”

65. “The path to success is seldom linear; embrace the twists and turns with grace.”

66. “Happiness is not a destination but a way of traveling through life.”

67. “Let your passions guide you to a life of purpose and fulfillment.”

68. “Don’t be afraid to stand alone; it’s in solitude that you find your true self.”

69. “A strong foundation of values will support you through life’s storms.”

70. “With each challenge comes an opportunity for growth and transformation.”

71. “Believe in miracles, for they often happen in the realm of possibility.”

72. “Your worth is not defined by the numbers but by the lives you touch.”

73. “Never stop learning, for knowledge is the key to unlocking new horizons.”

74. “The world needs your unique voice; let it be heard loud and clear.”

75. “Every setback is a setup for a grand comeback; keep pushing forward.”

76. “Your purpose is not something to be found; it’s something to be created.”

77. “When you embrace change, you invite growth into your life.”

78. “Be a beacon of light in the darkness, and watch others join you.”

79. “Every experience, good or bad, shapes the masterpiece that is you.”

80. “Success is not a sprint but a marathon; pace yourself and keep going.”

81. “You are the author of your life; write a story that inspires generations.”

82. “Let gratitude be your guiding star; it will lead you to abundance.”

83. “When you align your actions with your values, magic happens.”

84. “The pursuit of excellence is a lifelong journey; savor every step.”

85. “Your dreams are the blueprints for your destiny; build them with passion.”

86. “Even in the darkest hour, hope has the power to light the way.”

87. “Your strength lies not in what you’ve faced, but in how you’ve risen.”

88. “Life’s challenges are like weights in the gym of resilience; they make you stronger.”

89. “To make a difference in the world, be the change you wish to see.”

90. “Dare to take risks; they are the gateway to extraordinary achievements.”

91. “In the embrace of failure, you discover the courage to start anew.”

92. “Your journey is a masterpiece in progress; keep adding colors and textures.”

93. “Believe in the power of your dreams, and watch the universe conspire in your favor.”

94. “Every person you meet is an opportunity to spread kindness and leave a legacy.”

95. “Success is not found in the applause of others but in the satisfaction of your efforts.”

96. “The light within you can illuminate even the darkest corners of the world.”

97. “Your purpose is the compass that guides you through life’s twists and turns.”

98. “Gratitude is a magnet for abundance; the more you express, the more you receive.”

99. “To inspire others, live a life that reflects your deepest values and dreams.”

100. “Life’s challenges are like waves; learn to surf and ride them with grace.”

101. “In the journey of self-discovery, you’ll find the keys to unlock your true potential.”

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53 Empowering Study Motivation Quotes For Students

Struggling to meet deadlines? Need a push to get your homework done? Find strength and crush your goals with these study motivation quotes.

On a scale from 1 to 10, how much will you rate the difficulty of life as a student? It’s a solid 10 for me, even harder than working at a corporate job.

And if you have a similar score as I do, you are not alone. According to a survey conducted by Yale University, more than half of the students felt tired at school. Not surprised. Whether you are in high school or college, there is just so much work to do.

Not only do students need to finish homework, rush deadlines, and study for finals, they also have clubs to attend, sports to practice, and the whole future to plan. With so much to do, why would anyone rely on quotes to find their motivation? Why don’t we just do it?

The thing is, we are not robots. And our brain is not wired to function the way we want it to. Boredom, procrastination, and difficulty to concentrate are sometimes fatigue in disguise. In other words, you are not lazy. You are tired. If you are on the edge of burnout , the most productive thing to do is to take a break.

But sometimes, all we need is an extra push to do the work. So here is a list of study motivation quotes and sayings that will give you the strength and the reason to work harder.

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Success has a million definitions. As a student, success may equal straight A’s, getting into your ideal college, landing on a dream job, or contribute in a professional area. But, no matter what success means to you, one thing is for sure: it requires strategies and continuous efforts.

So if you are determined to achieve your goals, these motivational study quotes will be your cheerleader along the way.

What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.

Failure is success in progress.

You are so close to the victory. Don’t you dare give up now.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. – Zig Ziglar

If you are not happy with where you are now, keep going.

Don’t just learn; experience. Don’t just read; absorb. Don’t just think, ponder. Don’t just dream, do. – Roy T. Bennett

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It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes, we must do what is required. – Winston S. Churchill

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. – Leonardo da Vinci

Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.

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

The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something, to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. – Randy Pausch

The harder you work, the luckier you are.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston S. Churchill

You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for. – Daniel Milstein

Experts were once beginners.

Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.

Motivation gets you far. Discipline gets you further.

Sometimes a few words or a single line can say a lot. So, if you are looking for study captions or motivational one-liners , you will love the following short study quotes.

If you have a quote that resonates with you, don’t forget to write it down and put it somewhere you can see to keep yourself reminded.

You got this.

You are capable of amazing things.

Making myself proud.

A’s before baes

Don’t stop until you are there.

Start one hour earlier. It can change a lot.

Tiredness sucks less than regret.

You never fail until you stop trying. – Albert Einstein

Believe a little more in your potential.

Be the cherry who stands on top.

Progress is progress, no matter how small.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

Difficult but not impossible.

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

Do something that your future self will thank you for.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

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

As a student, you may have tons to handle at the same time. But sometimes, it’s hard to just sit down and get things done. Everyone has the same 24 hours per day. And the more time you spend on procrastination, the less you achieve.

So when you don’t feel like doing the work, these motivational study quotes may help you stop procrastinating and take action . Pick one or two of your favorite quotes, set it as a lock screen wallpaper, or write it down as a self-reminder .

What’s stopping you?

When in doubt Clear your desk. Tie your hair up. Grab a coffee. And just start.

Put the phone down.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

You don’t solve problems that you put off. Do it now.

Productive things to do besides study Schedule your study for the week Drink water and stretch Organize your desk Review your notes Listen to podcast Cook a healthy meal

Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder. – Mason Cooley

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar

Do what you say you will do yesterday.

Wake up early. Drink coffee. Study hard. Take breaks. And repeat.

One thing that will make studying easier is gratitude. Education changes lives. And being able to go to school is a gift. So here is a list of quotes about learning and education that will make you rethink your school life.

There is no shame in not knowing. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

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So many books, so little time. – Frank Zappa

It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. – Albert Einstein

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B.B. King

Not many can concentrate for a straight hour. But we can all focus for 20 minutes and repeat.

Getting educated is a privilege.

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. – Oprah Winfrey

I love hearing educated people talk and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice. – Zendaya

Now you have a bunch of study quotes to go to when you need motivation. And here are some tips that may be helpful as well.

• Honor your feelings

The lack of motivation, boredom, and anxiety can all be signs of burnout. And when you have no fuel in the tank, it’s impossible to fire up the engine. So instead of criticizing your reluctance to study, write down how you feel.

It may also help to track your prime time and downtime. Maybe you are a morning person who performs the best in the early hours. Or perhaps you are the opposite. Schedule your study accordingly and do the most challenging tasks in your prime time.

• Schedule breaks

You are not tired for no reason, especially when it’s chronic. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to take a break. So don’t forget to arrange break time in between your day.

The Pomodoro method may be a good place to start. Study for 25 minutes, take a 5-minute break and repeat. Use a timer, so you don’t need to check the time.

• Find a study buddy

If you have a group of friends or a classmate to study with, it’s easier to keep yourself accountable.

• Write down your goal

What are your goals? Goals can be the best motivator. So take a piece of paper and write down your goals. Don’t forget to include both short-term and long-term goals.

Short-term goals can be finishing your paper by next Tuesday or getting an A at finals. Long-term goals may be getting into your ideal college. Include both so you have something to keep you excited for now and in the long run.

Which of these study motivation quotes do you find helpful?

Or maybe you have your own study mantra. Leave it in the comment or tag @_OurMindfulLife on Instagram to share.

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“Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.” Martin Garrix

“No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There’s no breathing time, there’s no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.” Ross W. Greene

“I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative .” Tom Petty

“I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family , especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.” Bad Bunny

“After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don’t care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity ? Are you innovative ? Do you solve problems? Somebody’s got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.” Daisy Fuentes

“Growing up, I ate, slept and breathed hockey. I got home from school, I shot pucks, played outdoor hockey, road hockey, go home for dinner… Remember this is pre-Internet, barely any video games, I had a Commodore Vic-20. If you weren’t doing your homework, you were outside playing hockey, most likely.” Chris Pronger

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“When I was growing up, my parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” Thomas Friedman

“Homework should be a swear word. Every time teachers say it, they should have to put money in a jar and then, when there’s enough, they need to buy all the kids ice cream.” Rachel Inbar

“When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his math homework. I bought another set of mathematics books and both of us would sit side by side and start solving problems.” Suhasini Maniratnam

“You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and ‘Whoa, Nellie.’ What I got was, ‘Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?’ ‘This homework needs more work,’ and the inevitable was, ‘How fast were you really going?'” Keith Jackson

“By providing every student with a quality education , and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.” London Breed

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Quotes about homework

Homework is like a treasure hunt, the more you search, the more you learn.

Homework is not a burden, but a bridge to success.

Homework is the practice that perfects your skills.

Homework is the fuel that ignites the fire of knowledge.

Homework is the key that unlocks the door to achievement.

Homework is not the enemy, but the ally of progress.

Homework teaches us discipline and perseverance.

Homework is the bridge that connects what we learn in school to the real world.

Homework is an opportunity for growth and self-improvement.

Homework is the building block of knowledge.

Homework is the foundation upon which our education stands.

Homework is like a puzzle, every piece counts towards the bigger picture.

Homework is the bridge between what we know and what we can achieve.

Homework is the compass that guides us on our educational journey.

Homework is the practice that turns theory into reality.

Homework is the secret ingredient to academic success.

Homework is the tool that sharpens our intellect.

Homework is our ticket to a brighter future.

Homework is the investment that pays off in the long run.

Homework is the proof that we are willing to go the extra mile for our dreams.

Homework is the canvas on which we paint our academic achievements.

Homework is the chord that connects what we learn today to what we will accomplish tomorrow.

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Homework is the staircase to intellectual growth.

Homework is the path that leads to academic excellence.

Homework is the light that guides us through the dark corners of understanding.

Homework is the teacher’s way of saying, ‘I believe in your potential.’

Homework is the opportunity to build a strong foundation for future success.

Homework is the trailblazer that paves the way for new discoveries.

Homework is the passport to knowledge.

Homework is the practice that turns novices into experts.

Homework is the compass that steers us towards educational excellence.

Homework is the music that plays in the symphony of education.

Homework is the puzzle piece that completes the academic picture.

Homework is the investment of time that yields the greatest returns.

Homework is the marathon that prepares us for the sprint of exams.

Homework is the recipe that blends knowledge, understanding, and application.

Homework is the window into our individual learning styles.

Homework is the mirror that reflects our growth as students.

Homework is the workout that flexes our mental muscles.

Homework is the rehearsal that prepares us for the grand performance of life.

Homework is the beehive of learning, where buzzing minds gather to produce sweet rewards.

Homework is the treasure map that leads to academic riches.

Homework is the potion that turns confusion into clarity.

Homework is the boat that sails us across the ocean of knowledge.

Homework is the blueprint that guides us in the construction of our education.

Homework is the secret ingredient that spices up our academic journey.

Homework is the drumbeat that fuels our intellectual progress.

Homework is the telescope that allows us to see beyond the classroom walls.

Homework is the compass that points towards educational enlightenment.

Homework is the stepping stone to greatness.

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Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old homework quotes, homework sayings, and homework proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

I've got a lot of homework to do, and none of it has anything to do with school. Travis Thrasher

Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. Laurie Halse Anderson

He's given me enough homework to last ten years. I'm gonna die of nerdism. Mark A. Cooper

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. Henry Jenkins

You don't get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework. Daymond John

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you. Branford Marsalis

If you want to be lucky, do your homework. Jim Rogers

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus. Cynthia Lewis

Do your homework. I'm tired of carrying you. Cheryl Miller

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Marilyn vos Savant

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do your homework and stand your ground. Peter Bart

If you do your homework and do your due diligence, you shouldn't get stuck with one of them. Dawson Grimsley

There's only one interview technique that matters. Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare. Jim Lehrer

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework. Mel Brooks

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. James Patterson

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in. Edward Norton

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. Merlin Olsen

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate. Anna Popplewell

Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it. Natalie Maines

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass. Mark Cuban

Homework is a best work,but if human hate it its a worst work. Vidhya Vijay

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone. Justin Hires

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer. Joey Lauren Adams

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework. Georgette Mosbacher

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom. Jim Rohn

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin

You see it in education a lot. If you do your homework, you get to pick out something from the class treasure chest. Dace Svikis

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. Amy Lee

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources. Jane Brody

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair. So basically you've been doing homework. Like I said, black hole. Kiersten White

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world. Jules Shear

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework. Daymond John

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. Imran Khan

When I was growing up, my parents told me. Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving. I tell my daughters. Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job. Thomas Friedman

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. Katherine Applegate

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades. H Jackson Brown Jr.

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about. John Templeton

We define meaningful homework as tasks that enrich the in-school curriculum by challenging students to think deeply about important questions, apply their knowledge and skills toward solving genuine problems, and creating authentic products that will be used in meaningful ways. Janet Alleman

Meaningful homework is oriented toward authentic forms of student achievement. Janet Alleman

Meaningful homework should match the goals of the lessons and units and should expand, enrich, or apply what is learned in school. Janet Alleman

Many claim that homework is necessary for improving student achievement--an assertion that is only partially a supported by research. Janet Alleman

Homework is tough on parents, then, and it's also tough on children. Alfie Kohn

Homework is a long-standing education that, until recently, has seldom been questioned. Cathy Vatterott

Homework has generally been viewed as a positive practice and accepted without question as part of the student routine. Cathy Vatterott

As the culture changed, and as the schools and families have changed, homework has become problematic for more and more students, parent, and teachers. Cathy Vatterott

Homework was viewed as a culprit that robbed children of important opportunities for social interaction. Cathy Vatterott

The controversy over homework starts with a large number of academic studies that have sought to establish or refute the notion that homework improves academic performance. John Buell

Students who do homework receive better grades or higher test scores, but they do not establish that homework causes improved performance. John Buell

There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary school students. John Buell

When you also learn the truth about homework, chances are that you'll want to do something to lighten that heavy backpack your child drags home each night. Sara Bennett

It seems like the more homework a nation's teachers assign, the worse that nation's students do on achievement tests. Professor Baker

Many educators tout homework as a great way to teach children responsibility. Sara Bennett

With parents increasingly involved in assignments every step of the way we think homework undermines the teaching of responsibility. Sara Bennett

There's no evidence that homework is good for reinforcement, if parents are going to give up their home life for homework, there should be evidence that it will produce something. Professor Kralovec

The most common reason teachers give for assigning homework is that parents want it. I know parents who judge the quality of the school by how much homework the teachers give, often creating a climate that forces teachers to create assignments against their better judgement. Vera Goodman

No matter how parents justify it or demand it, excessive homework is an intrusion into the private lives of children. Vera Goodman

Young children often like to get some homework because it makes them feel grown up. Vera Goodman

Homework that is light, and designed so that families can enjoy spending time working together, is valuable. Vera Goodman

Teachers argue that they need to give homework to cover the mandated curriculum. Vera Goodman

If you're going to choose someone's homework to copy, you need to choose someone who's good in math. Blanche Hanalis

it's wonderful what they can do with computers these days and I'm pretty sure you have homework to do. Holden Weihs

I wish I had a robot to help me with my homework when I was little. Colin Bostock-Smith

Over the next few decades, schools institutionalized homework as a primary means for determining a student's academic proficiency on almost a daily basis. David C. Berliner

Today school systems overwhelmingly use homework as a pedagogical staple and a measurement for assessing students' academic growth in the short term. David C. Berliner

Parents enforce homework because they believe children who study hard make the grade. David C. Berliner

Most parents eagerly include 'homework time' as part of the daily household routine and act as tutor. David C. Berliner

Thorough homework—good fact-finding coupled with good analysis—is essential if good remedies are to follow and if an effective case is to be made for a particular cause. Frank Sennett

There are always more events to be organized, students to be congratulated, cheers to say, homework to design, and challenges to meet. Pondie Nicholson

Homework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie

My daddy used to ask us whether the teacher had given us any homework. If we said no, he'd say, well, assign yourself. Marian Wright Edelman

Our furnace broke, and we had to burn my homework to keep ourselves from freezing. Jim Kraus

I didn't do my history because I don't believe in dwelling on the past. Jim Kraus

When a teenager is watching television, listening to her record player, and talking on the phone, she is probably doing her homework. Evan Esar

A lazy schoolboy lets his father do his homework, but a bright one helps his father with it. Evan Esar

Homework sometimes shows how much children don't know, but more often how much their parents don't know. Evan Esar

When it comes to homework, most schoolchildren like to do nothing better. Evan Esar

Half the parents who do their children's homework for them shouldn't; the other half can't. Evan Esar

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Following is our list of homework quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about inspirational homework.

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You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework. — Jim Rogers 34

Study your lessons, don't settle for less. — Tupac Shakur 53

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed. — Ross W. Greene 42

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. — Henry Jenkins 46

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. — Phillip C. Schlechty 22

If you want to work with me, you have to work harder than the others and do well in school. — Bernard Arnault 72

You're an idiot. Study harder. — Hideaki Anno 43

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 26

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. — Geoffrey Holder 46

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. — Dr. Seuss 76

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. — Josh Groban 50

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. — John Dewey 236

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. — Paul Halmos 90

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. — French Montana 91

The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance. — Filipino Proverbs 71

• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. — Lily Tomlin
• A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. — Thomas A. Edison
• I’m going to do what I want, get my money and go home. — Amanda Nunes
• College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two. — Andy Stern
• Focus on fewer but higher impact tasks. — Leo Babauta
• Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan
• Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. — Amy Lee
• Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office. — Eric Yuan
• I’m a guy who doesn’t really care about glamour and big markets; I like to be home all day. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
• I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard

Homework Image Quotes

The Wright brothers committed themselves to do what no one else had ever done before. They took time to do their homework. They were humble and smart enough to appreciate and learn about the work of others who went before. And they tackled the problem line upon line, precept upon precept. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 6

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. — Alice Duer Miller 0

I will just say, no matter where you buy the car, do your homework. When I purchase a car I come in with a folder an inch thick. In fact, one time the auto sales person asked if he could copy my research! — Michelle Singletary 0

They asked us to draw pictures of what we thought men and women look like naked and so I was like, "Get away, I'm doing my weird homework, drawing a naked man and woman." And I can't even draw. That's all I remember. I have no memory. — Jen Kirkman 0

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework. — Dan Quisenberry 0

Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about. — John Templeton 0

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 0

Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. — Laurie Halse Anderson 0

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn 73

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in. — Edward Norton 40

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework. — Thomas A. Edison 5

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me. — Taraji P. Henson 1

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice. — Christina Milian 0

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today. — Frederick Lenz 0

Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea. — Mark Cuban 0

Where do I go from here? — Nicholas Sparks 0

People Writing About Homework

If you're passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly. Be prepared that if anytime, you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way, and that's when I say, do your homework. Be ready. — Julie Andrews 75

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' — Thomas Friedman 71

Usually, I’ll give them homework—a small, doable task. I’ll give you an example. There was an artist I was working with recently who hadn’t made an album in a long time, and he was struggling with finishing anything. He just had this version of a writer’s block. But I would give him very doable homework assignments that almost seemed like a joke. ‘Tonight, I want you to write one word in this song that needs five lines, that you can’t finish. I just want one word that you like by tomorrow. Do you think that you could come up with one word? — Rick Rubin 64

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.' — A. A. Gill 61

Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion. — Andrew Tan 60

I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artists aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track. — Jake Paul 56

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them. — Alfie Kohn 51

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. — J. K. Rowling 51

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom. — Mike Candrea 50

In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air. — Thomas Carper 49

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. — William J. O'Neil 45

A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God. — Cathie Linz 43

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity. — Paul Tudor Jones 39

Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them. — Cardi B 29

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day. — Ayelet Waldman 22

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down. — Alex Hirsch 20

Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here. — Jim Benton 20

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass. — Mark Cuban 19

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. — Merlin Olsen 18

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. — Imran Khan 18

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson 18

Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are. — John Rosemond 17

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write — Laura Hillenbrand 17

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. — Jane Goodall 16

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around. — Charlene Tilton 15

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight. — Barbara Walters 15

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math. — Danica McKellar 14

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. — Ed Bradley 14

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it. — Jessica Hagedorn 14

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. — Vera Wang 14

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101 Study Quotes To Motivate Your Schoolwork

Motivational Quotes to Study

Motivational quotes about studying hard, inspirational quotes for students, motivational quotes for students.

Students aren't always motivated to do their best at school and projects related to school, so sometimes you need motivation.

Whether it’s their presence while attending lectures at school or doing schoolwork later at home, students need to be motivated and inspired to give their best at all times.

School children are sometimes distracted by all that is happening in their lives and all that is expected of them. Be it family, sports, and other extra circular activities or peer pressure, they sometimes feel that they are always balancing many things at the same time.

This constant juggling may make them feel disinterested and lost when it comes to their primary work: studies and all the activities of their interests. Helping them divide their days into slots for specific activities may help them excel in these.

But along with that, continually motivating them by spending quality time with them to understand their needs is also essential. Students need to focus on the positive side of life, and parents and caregivers can help them achieve this by leading as an example for them.

Like reading bible study quotes for students and also quotes about study abroad and college quotes will help immensely.

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School kids are at the most impressionable age of their lives. What we say or do will have a lasting impact on them, and hence, we must be very careful with regards to how we shape these future adults with care and love.

These motivational quotes for students can help motivate them to do their schoolwork and work hard which will help significantly in motivating to study hard.

1. “A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.”

- Unknown*.

2. “If you can believe it, your mind can achieve it.”

3. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

- William Arthur Ward.

4. “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

- Thomas Jefferson.

5. “Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

- Jim Rohn.

6. “There’s no traffic after the extra mile.”

7. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce.

8. “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 C. Maxwell.

9. “Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

- Steve Jobs.

10. “I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan.

11. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

12. “The expert in everything was once a beginner.”

13. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

- Thomas Edison.

14. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

- Albert Einstein.

15. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

16. “It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.”

17. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”

18. “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.

19. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

- Winston Churchill.

20. “It’s not about how bad you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to work for it.”

21. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.”

- Philippos.

22. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

- Dale Carnegie.

23. “I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.”

- Chinese Proverb.

24. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

25. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

- Christian D. Larson.

Reading affirmative words will help the students feel good about themselves, and can help them find a way to motivate themselves. Hence, we have compiled a list of study hard and work hard quotes to motivate you for schoolwork. Reading these inspirational quotes will help students hone their capabilities and find a way to go for the best result.

26. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

- Bruce Lee.

27. “There will be doubters, there will be obstacles, there will be mistakes. But, with hard work, there are no limits.”

- Michael Phelps.

28.  “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

- Swami Vivekananda.

29. ““As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”

― Leonardo Da Vinci.

30. “Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.”

- Carl Bard.

31. “Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.”

- Sally Ride.

32. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

- Zig Ziglar.

33. “No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

- William Shakespeare, ‘The Taming Of The Shrew’.

34. “It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.”

- Santosh Kalwar.

35. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

- T. Harv Eker.

36. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

- C.S. Lewis.

37. “Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

- Henry L. Doherty.

38. “In real life, there is no such thing as second place. Either you are a winner, or you’re not.”

39. “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”

- Shakuntala Devi.

40. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

- Marilyn Vos Savant.

41. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

- Malcolm X.

42. “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.”

- Chinese proverb.

43. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”

44. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

- John Wooden

45. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.”

- Babe Ruth.

46. “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.”

- Mason Cooley.

47. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

- Beverly Stills.

48. “Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.”

49. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated.”

- R Collier.

50. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

After home, school is the place where the students spend most of their time. Ensuring that they have a positive experience in the school is a duty and responsibility of everyone associated with the school. These study motivation quotes will help you study and motivate you for completing schoolwork.

51. “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and diligence.”

- Abigail Adams .

52. “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

- Ernest Dimnet.

53. “I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”

- Annie Dillard.

54. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.”

- Plutarch.

55. “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

- Thomas Huxley.

56. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.      Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

- Henry Ford.

57. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

- Napoleon Hill.

58. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

- NLP Adage.

59. “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 made things happen.”

- Elinor Smith.

60. “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.”

- Vladimir Lenin.

61. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”

- Dalai Lama.

62. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.”

- Carol Burnett.

63. “School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.”

- Lon Watters.

64. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

- Larry Bird.

65. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

- Maya Angelou.

66. “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.”

- Estee Lauder.

67. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”

68. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

- Confucius.

69. “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”

- John Green.

70. “I’m not going to school just for the academics . I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.”

- Emma Watson.

71. “Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

- Booker T. Washington.

72. “Doing your best means never stop trying.”

- Benjamin Franklin.

73. “Just do it.”

74. “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

75. “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

- Gary Ryan Blair.

School is the building block for any students’ character, growth, and future endeavors. And to stay motivated throughout these school years is highly beneficial for the students’ progress in life.

These inspirational quotes on schoolwork will help in a small way to go for the things that always seem impossible. Read on for some amazing study motivation quotes that you will love.

76. “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”

- Margueritte De Navarre.

77. “Do right.  Do your best.  Treat others the way you want to be treated.”

- Lou Holtz.

78. “Do your best when no one is looking.  If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to’’

- Bob Cousy.

79. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

- Abraham Lincoln.

80. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

- H. Jackson Brown.

81. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”

- Oprah Winfrey.

82. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

- Dr. Seuss.

83. “Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn’t even on.”

- Amy Poehler.

84. “Be so good They can’t ignore you.”

- Steve Martin.

85. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

- Lily Tomlin.

86. “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”

- Malala Yousafzai.

87. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo.

88. “Intelligence plus character—That is the true goal of education.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

89. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m Possible!’”

- Audrey Hepburn.

90. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

- Aristotle.

91. “If you believe in yourself and with a tiny pinch of magic, all your dreams can come true.”

- SpongeBob SquarePants.

92. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

- Nelson Mandela.

93. “In a global economy, where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity, it is a prerequisite.”

- Barack Obama.

94. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

- Steve Irwin.

95. “You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.”

- Michelle Obama.

96. “Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different...Just try hard to be you.”

97. “I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”

- 'Joan Of Arc'.

98. “Sometimes we’re all too quick to count down the days that we forget to make the days count.”

99. “Be curious, not cool.”

100. “You’ve got this.”

101. “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

- Roy T. Bennett, ‘The Light In The Heart’.

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Funny Homework Quotes to Tickle Your Funny Bone

We know how kids, in general, feel about homework. While there has been a lot of debate about whether homework is necessary for kids, especially for elementary students, the fact remains that many teachers prefer giving homework. Students are expected to complete and submit their work for assessment. 

Often kids consider homework as a burden that robs them of their free time. Consequently, they tend to lose interest in it. As quotes have the power to alleviate mood and change perspective, we can use them to handle thoughts about homework too! We have already covered funny quotes on topics such as geometry , math , and grammar . This time around, we are happy to share fun quotes on homework. 

Although inspiring quotes can encourage positive thoughts, funny quotes make the topic light. By bringing a smile to students’ faces, funny quotes can lighten up their moods and help create a positive mindset toward homework.

Let’s share some smiles with funny homework quotes

1. “homework: because 7 hours at school isn’t enough.” – unknown, 2. “i like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – lily tomlin, 3. “homework- the teachers’ way to find out how smart parents are” – unknown, 4. “homework is not an option. my bed is sending out serious nap rays. i can’t help myself. the fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than i am. i have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.” – laurie halse anderson, 5. “time flies so fast when i’m avoiding homework…” – unknown, 6. “you could give me 43 years to do homework, and i still wouldn’t do it until the night before.” – unknown, 7. “my life is a black hole of boredom and despair.” “so basically, you have been doing homework.” “like i said, black hole.” – kiersten white, 8. “i miss the days when homework was just… coloring.” – unknown, 9. “what i like about baseball- there is no homework” – dan quisenberry, 10. “i can’t keep calm. there’s too much homework.” – unknown, 11. “moment of disappointment- when you can’t find the answers to your homework on google.” – unknown, 12. “the reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven’t the faintest idea how to do their homework.” – babs bell hajdusiewicz, 13. “my dog’s favorite snack is my homework.” – unknown, 14. “i am learning skills i will use for the rest of my life by doing homework – procrastinating and negotiation.” – bill watterson, 15. “before i forget, here’s your homework. where do you want me to put it” she pointed at the trash can. “right there would be fine.” – becca fitzpatrick, 16. “homework should be a swear word. every time the teacher says it, they should have to put money in a jar, and then, when there is enough, they need to buy all the kids ice cream.”  – rachel inbar, 17. “the awkward moment when wikipedia has copied your homework.” – unknown, 18. “homework, i have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.” – katherine applegate, 19. “instead of doing my homework; i like to stay on the computer and worry about how much homework i have to do.” – unknown, 20. “things i have learned in school: if the homework is study or read… you don’t have any homework.” – unknown, 21. “getting so bored that you are actually doing your homework earlier…” – unknown, 22. “the teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.” – cynthia lewis, 23. “if you attend miskatonic university, your homework might eat your dog.” – james pratt, 24. “inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.” – amy lee, 25.”homework means half of my energy is wasted on random knowledge.” – unknown, 26. “it’s piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up.” – mary h.k. choi, 27. “i didn’t do it because i spent all night long doing the previous night’s homework.” – unknown, 28. “that moment when your teacher forgets you have homework, but then that one kid says, we have homework.” – unknown, 29.”dear homework, they may be doing you, but all they can think about is me. sincerely, summer.” – unknown, 30.”i save all of my homework until the last minute because then i will be older, therefore wiser.” – u nknown, 31. “even when i have absolutely nothing to do, homework is not an option.” – unknown, but why is homework important for students.

We may have shared witty and funny quotes about homework, but that does not mean we consider homework unimportant. There are quite a few good reasons why homework has been an integral part of a student’s life for years. Do you want to know how doing regular homework can benefit you in the long run? Let’s see. 

1. It instills discipline and encourages students to plan their day, do their assignments, and stay organized.

2. Homework improves time management skills. As homework comes with a deadline and every day has a different workload, students have to level up their time management game to stay on track and keep their deliverables ready on time. 

3. Repeating concepts several times helps in increasing a student’s understanding of the subject. This makes the topic easier to comprehend, which stays in memory for a long duration.

4. Doing assignments in class is quite different from doing them at home. At school, guidance is readily available. But homework encourages students to problem-solve and work independently. 

5. Homework prepares students to do things even if they don’t want to. Adulthood brings several instances when you have to do certain things without having the willingness to do them. Students get to learn this life lesson through homework.

6. Homework teaches students to become responsible for their learning. Failing to take responsibility well often results in poor grades in class assessments.  

7. It provides an opportunity for parents to be actively involved in their child’s education and know what they are learning in class and where they stand in terms of understanding the subject matter. 

8. Homework also allows teachers to assess how well students have understood a topic and gives them an idea about which areas must be discussed further in class to develop clarity in the minds of the students. 

Wrapping up,

Homework may not bring a smile to a student’s face. But that doesn’t make it less important. We all know “Laughter is the best medicine” in stressful times. So, the next time you’re stressed out by your homework, take a break and go through these funny quotes. It will definitely lighten up your mood and release happy hormones in your body so you can go back and finish your homework with cheerfulness and positivity.

I am Priyanka Sonkushre, a writer and blogger. I am the person behind “ One Loving Mama ,” a mom blog. Equipped with a Bachelor’s degree along with an MBA, my healthcare background helps me deeply understand learning difficulties. I know how challenging it can be for parents to find the right resources to help their children excel in life. So, here I am to blend my healthcare expertise with my parenting experience to create valuable and helpful resources for parents and teachers supporting children with learning differences. If you wish, you can follow me on  Facebook  and  LinkedIn .

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Homework Quotes

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

– Georgie Henley

Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

– J. K. Simmons

If you’re a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write – to finish the poem, as they say.

– Jenny Lewis

I’ve never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

– Jimmy Page

I’ve noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.

– John Lasseter

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

– Bill Gates

I’m a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don’t waste money.

– Bruce Rauner

We’ve turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven’t done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor’s Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.

– Ben Foster

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

– Bono

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework – read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don’t know something, ask.

– Anwar Robinson

Anyone who’s done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there – and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.

– Antoine Fuqua

If you’re working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours’ homework, it’s quite a lot on your plate.

– Anna Popplewell

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‘Okay.’ And then I sit down and they say, ‘It’s math.’ ‘No! Not math! English, history, anything!’

– Angelina Jolie

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

– Chelsea Clinton

I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn’t count for anything.

– Andrea Seigel

The best thing about baseball is there’s no homework.

– Dan Quisenberry

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn’t understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

– Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

– Meredith Whitney

I did my homework and didn’t go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

– Emily Mortimer

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age.

– Ed Bradley

I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you’re cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.

– Chloe Bennet

One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.

– Merlin Olsen

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

– Daisy Fuentes

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance – to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and ‘yes-butts’ the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work.

– David D. Burns

My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It’s gym, ice, homework. They’re too tired to get in trouble.

– Nelson Peltz

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

– Margot Kidder

I think if you get asked to do this, then that’s called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

– Mark Harmon

When you line up on the track, you want to have done your homework, be aware of what they are capable of. You think about everything. It’s like taking a journey, innit?

– Mo Farah

When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I’m a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.

– Kay Cannon

I don’t believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you’re doing with it.

– Jessica Hagedorn

127+ Best Homework Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Homework teaches students to work independently and develop self-discipline. Profoundly inspirational homework quotes will fire up your brain and encourage you to look at life differently while making you laugh.

Famous Homework Quotes

One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared. — Merlin Olsen

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. — Daisy Fuentes

I’m just living my life. I’m incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I’ve had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard. — Anna Paquin

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college. — Allison Williams

Having mid-week games is great. It’s almost like the pros. With three games you need to get your rest and get your fluids. You also need to make sure you get your homework done, because you don’t have every night free until Friday. — Tim Cook

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There’s no breathing time, there’s no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed. — Ross W. Greene

I also want to thank the person who picked up litter and put it in the litter basket. I want to thank the parents who help their children with homework every night and I want to thank the person who goes by to check on a neighbor, — James Perkins

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way – bummed out and under pressure. I often don’t do my homework. But I’ll always walk that extra mile. — Steven Tyler

The best thing about baseball is there’s no homework. — Dan Quisenberry

We do everything together. At first, it was mostly wrestling but then we’d hang out together and do our homework together. — Alex McKinney

‘Grey Gardens’ consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I’m not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family. — Christine Ebersole

We have been very grateful of the support from Spain and the European Union but we also feel we have to do our homework ourselves and not only trust our friends but also trust ourselves. — Per Stig

Jeremy is a player we did our homework on. He’s a defender, but is actually a converted forward. There are a lot of things we liked about him. — Dave Sarachan

Parents want to know things like how much homework their kids are doing, is it too much, what should they be reading, and at what level, — Piers Morgan

After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don’t care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody’s got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We really wanted, as a committee, to do a thorough job and not jump into something. We looked at a lot of great candidates, and we did our homework on them. This committee was very, very thorough. — Randy Stange

I can get my homework done and hang out with my friends. — Mike Darnell

Bird flu is totally under control, … The outbreak … occurred in one area and has been contained. Of course, we need to be careful, we need to do our homework well. — Recep Erdogan

Some adults feel intimidated by school, intimidated by the teacher, intimidated by the kind of homework their children are bringing home. It makes it difficult to be a part of things if you don’t have the skills you need. — Debra Conner

I couldn’t do my homework if my room wasn’t clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way. — Shaun White

She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. — Holly Armstrong

Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Personally, the experience is amazing. To see where these kids live and grow up, it’s an experience all in itself to just talk to them individually and feel that you have made some kind of positive impact on their life. Most of them really are good kids stuck in a bad situation and we are there to try to bring out that motivation and determination in them to succeed in life. And the kids have started to warm up to us. They are starting to bring their homework more often and have gained more interest in what we have to share with them. — Ben Schaub

Motivational Quotes About Homework

We have some tape on them from over the course of the year. We’ll have to do our homework now. — Jerry York

There aren’t many rests in Jennifer’s concerto. She’s done her homework well and knows what works. But I have to be more like a long distance runner for this concerto, while orchestra playing is more like being a sprinter. — Peter Sullivan

Here, homework is not a punishment. They really like coming to homework club. We want it to feel like home. — Amy Campbell

I felt extremely comfortable and at home on the set and actually I did homework about breaking down the scenes and often had shot lists in a rough way, but it was actually extremely spontaneous. Working with David Lynch-he is so spontaneous. — Joan Chen

Gabbe stepped forward. “Cam’s right. I’ve heard the Scale speak of these shifts.” She was tugging on the sleeves of her pale yellow cashmere cardigan as if she would never get warm. “They’re called timequakes. They are ripples in our reality. “And the closer he gets,” Roland added, with his usual understated wisdom, “the closer we are to the terminus of his Fall, the more frequent and the more severe the timequakes will become. Time is faltering in preparation for rewriting itself. “Like the way your computer freezes up more and more frequently before the hard drive crashes and erases your twenty-page term paper?” Miles said. Everyone looked at him in befuddlement. “What?” he asked. “Angels and demons don’t do homework? — Lauren Kate

The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame. — Roger Williams

We’re going shine all day, all night. Please don’t be mad at us if we don’t do a little homework the next couple of weeks. — Joakim Noah

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight … Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight. — Barbara Walters

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit. — Bono

We’ve lots of confidence in our game. Teams will have done their homework but our style is pretty hard to mark up if we do it properly. — Chris Jones

The more you do your homework, the more you’re free to be intuitive. But you’ve got to put the work in. — Edward Norton

He had done his homework on me. I like that. He was serious about me. — Alex Wood

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn’t have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. — Georgia May Jagger

Homework Quotes For Students

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that. — Tia Mowry

She’s so concentrated. She wasn’t going to let her homework slip. — Susan Reed

From parents, we get hugs. We’ve had a lot of comments that homework time has been cut in half. — Becky Dyer

We’re very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done. — Sandra Ford

I think if you get asked to do this, then that’s called doing your homework, and I try and do it. — Mark Harmon

Many people who buy a car can’t afford what they’re getting into. They don’t do their homework and they don’t look at the alternatives. — Phil Edmonston

I’m a very research-, homework-oriented person. — Drew Barrymore

If a student knows their parents are looking online, they’ll want to do their homework and stay in school because they’ll know Mom or Dad will see if they’ve skipped class. — James Davis

We recommend that teachers don’t give homework or have big projects due during testing. — Kandise Gilbertson

We were kids still in school and playing 24 hours. We would get off school and then go do our homework in the bar right across the street and then play there until one or two in the morning and then grab a few hours’ sleep before we went to school. Then the same thing repeated, man, over and over. — Henry Garza

I’d much rather do research on up and coming companies that have potential and take the risk. It boils down to doing a lot of homework and learning the underlying fundamentals. — Fred Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible. — S. Walker

I wish it looked more like a car. But NASCAR has done their homework on it, and it doesn’t look like we got much of a choice. — Clint Bowyer

When I come home, it’s about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don’t have a lot of time to think about me. — Taraji P. Henson

On school nights I practice 45 minutes to an hour, depending on how much homework I’ve got. — Colin Brown

We do our homework and we feel good about how we evaluated the players. — Trudi Lacey

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It’s all about: Take responsibility, don’t blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher. — Amy Chua

He’s a big dude. You have to do your homework on where he wants to get to. I read it very well. You know where it’s coming from but it doesn’t always mean you’ll get it. — Adonal Foyle

Everyone has days where they don’t get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can’t eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down. — Alex Hirsch

Ricky was L but he’s home with the flu,Lizzie, our O, had some homework to do,Mitchell, E prob’ly got lost on the way,So I’m all of the love that could make it today. — Shel Silverstein

We bought some shares recently in a dot.com company that was absolutely annihilated after this recent rout, About.com ( BOUT : Research , Estimates ), which is the ninth-largest Web property of all Web properties. The stock dropped from 100 in late March, to a low of $21. This is a company with a real business model that had blowout first-quarter earnings. And they are actually going to turn a profit in 2001. Investors went from ‘everything Internet is good’, to the ‘everything Internet is bad’ mantra. So now you’ve got to do your homework and look at individual names and identify the business models that are valid. And I think this is one that can go back to its old high. — Dan Veru

I don’t want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them. — Johnny Miller

I think its important that kids have homework about every night, — Tom Turner

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don’t turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character. — Kate Winslet

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162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President Trump

Domenico Montanaro

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, speaks during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Aug. 8. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

There were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention.

A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny .

But there was so much more. A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of his news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. It’s a stunning number for anyone – and even more problematic for a person running to lead the free world.

Politicians spin. They fib. They misspeak. They make honest mistakes like the rest of us. And, yes, they even sometimes exaggerate their biographies .

The expectation, though, is that they will treat the truth as something important and correct any errors.

But what former President Trump did this past Thursday went well beyond the bounds of what most politicians would do.

Here’s what we found, going chronologically from the beginning of Trump’s remarks to the end:

1. “I think our country right now is in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in from an economic standpoint…” 

The U.S. economy has rebounded from the pandemic downturn more rapidly than most other countries around the world. Growth has slowed in recent months, but gross domestic product still grew at a relatively healthy annual clip of 2.8% in April, May and June – which is faster than the pace in three of the four years when Trump was president. — Scott Horsley, NPR chief economics correspondent

2. “…from a safety standpoint, both gangs on the street…”

We don’t have great, up-to-date data on gang activity in the U.S., but violent crime trends offer a good glimpse into safety in the country. Nationally, violent crime – that includes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault – has been trending way down after a surge in 2020, according to the most recent data from the FBI . That data is preliminary and incomplete, covering around three-quarters of the country, but other crime analysts have found similar trends. Crime levels, of course, vary locally : murders are down in Philadelphia, for instance, but up in Charlotte, N.C. — Meg Anderson, NPR National Desk reporter covering criminal justice

3. “...and frankly, gangs outside of our country in the form of other countries that are, frankly, very powerful. They’re very powerful countries.”

The U.S. is not in the “most dangerous position” from a foreign-policy standpoint than ever before. Biden pulled troops out of Afghanistan in his first year in office — though the withdrawal itself was chaotic and a target of much criticism — and since then, U.S. troops have not been actively engaged in a war for the first time in 20 years. The U.S. is supporting Ukraine and Israel, of course, and has troops in Iraq and Syria, but they’re not fighting on any regular basis.

What’s more, however, FBI Director Christopher Wray has said the greatest threat to the country is domestic extremism . And beyond organized groups the very definition of extremism is changing, as fringe ideologies move into the mainstream, and radicalization takes hold amongst parts of the populace. Consider: the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, even with a motive that remains murky at best. Regardless, the call is coming from inside the house, domestic extremism experts warn. Many polls show a sobering degree of support for political violence to drive change. — Andrew Sussman, NPR supervising editor for national security

4-5. “ We have a lot of bad things coming up. You could end up in a Depression of the 1929 variety, which would be a devastating thing, took many years– took many decades to recover from it, and we’re very close to that.”

There is nothing to suggest that a 1930s style Depression is on the horizon for the United States. And the Depression did not take “many decades to recover from.” It ended during World War Two , in 1941. — Scott Horsley

6. “And we’re very close to a world war. In my opinion, we’re very close to a world war.”

No serious person thinks that the U.S., Russia and China are about to start a world war. Right now, Russia appears to be having a hard time defending Russia, given Ukraine’s recent incursions. While there are concerns about things like the potential for regional conflagrations in the Middle East, only Trump is talking about world war. — Andrew Sussman

7. “ Kamala's record is horrible. She's a radical left person at a level that nobody's seen.” 

It’s debatable how liberal Harris is. Some in California didn’t like her record on criminal justice and thought she was not progressive enough. She’s clearly liked by progressives and her voting scores as a senator are on the liberal end of the spectrum, but is she “radical left” and “at a level that nobody’s seen”? There are plenty of people alive and in history who would be considered far more liberal and more radical.

8. “She picked a radical left man.”

Few, if any, reasonable people would say Walz is a “radical left man.” He had a progressive record as governor with a Democratic legislature, but the things passed are hardly radical – free school lunch, protecting abortion rights, legalizing marijuana, restricting access to certain types of guns. All of these things have majority support from voters. What’s more, that “progressive” record ignores Walz’s first term as governor when he worked with Republicans because Democrats didn’t control the legislature. And it ignores Walz’s time as a congressman when he was considered a more moderate member given that he was from a district that had been previously held by a Republican.

9. “He's going for things that nobody's ever even heard of. Heavy into the transgender world.” 

Last year, Walz championed and signed a bill that prevented state courts of officials from complying with child-removal requests, extraditions, arrests or subpoenas related to gender-affirming health care that a person receives or provides in Minnesota. “Heavy into the transgender world” is vague and misleading.

10. “He doesn't want to have borders. He doesn't want to have walls.”

Walz has never called for having no borders. He has voiced opposition to a wall because he doesn't think it will stop illegal immigration. He told Anderson Cooper on CNN , for example, that a wall "is not how you stop" illegal immigration He called for more border-control agents, electronics and more legal ways to immigrate.

11. “He doesn't want to have any form of safety for our country.”

Trump himself praised Walz’s handling of the aftermath of the George Floyd murder at the hands of a police officer. And it’s certainly hyperbole to say he “doesn’t want any form of safety for our country.” Walz served in the U.S. National Guard for 24 years, so clearly, he’s interested in the country having national security. And domestically, he’s never been a “defund the police” advocate. Walz opposed a ballot measure that would have gotten rid of minimum police staffing levels, for example. That angered advocates. He signed police reforms into law , but that does not prove wanting no safety.

12. “He doesn't mind people coming in from prisons.”

Walz has not said he wants people coming in from prisons. Trump is trying to tie his claim that other countries are sending prisoners to the United States to Democrats’ immigration policies.

13. “And neither does she, I guess. Because she's not, she couldn't care less.”

Harris has said a lot to the contrary of not caring about the levels of migrants coming across the border, let alone people coming in from prisons. In fact, when in Guatemala, she said her message for people thinking of immigrating to the United States was: " Do not come. Do not come ."

14. “She's the border czar. By the way, she was the border czar, 100%. And all of a sudden, for the last few weeks, she's not the border czar anymore, like nobody ever said it.”

Harris was never appointed “border czar.” That’s a phrase that was used incorrectly by some media outlets. Biden tasked Harris with leading the “ diplomatic effort ” with leaders in Central American countries, where many migrants are coming from.

Biden said he wants Harris “to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.” He added that Harris “agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept — the returnees, and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.”

Harris herself that day spoke of “the need to address root causes for the migration that we’ve been seeing.”

15. “We have a very, very sick country right now. You saw the other day with the stock market crashing. That was just the beginning. That was just the beginning.”

The stock market did not “crash.” The stock market fell sharply at the end of last week as investors fretted about a softening job market. This was amplified on Monday when Japan’s stock market tumbled 12%, sparking a selloff around the world. Stocks in Japan and elsewhere have since regained much of this ground, however. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 683 points on the day of Trump’s news conference. — Scott Horsley

16. “Fortunately, we've had some very good polls over the last fairly short period of time.”

Most good polls have shown Harris gaining not just nationally, but also in the swing states, though these same polls show a very close race.

17. “Rasmussen came out today. We're substantially leading.” 

Trump is not substantially leading, and Rasmussen is viewed as one of the least credible pollsters in the country.

18. “And others came out today that we're leading, and in some cases, substantially, I guess, MSNBC came out, or CNBC came out also, with a poll that was, you know, has us leading.” 

Polls have not shown substantial leads. CNBC had Trump leading by 2, unchanged from his 2-point lead in July.

19. “And leading fairly big in swing states. In some polls, I'm leading very big in swing states… .”

Again, polls in swing states have shown a tightened race.

20. “But as a border czar, she's been the worst border czar in history, in the world history.”

Vice President Harris was never asked to lead immigration policy. That’s the job of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Again, the term “border czar” was used inaccurately by some media outlets, and it’s a term conservatives have been using to attack her, in part, because she has only visited the Southern U.S. border a few times since 2021. But in reality, Harris was tapped by President Biden to address the root causes of migration . Her approach has focused on deterrence. She’s told migrants to not come to the U.S., and she has been able to secure more than $5 billion in commitments from private companies to help boost the economy in Central American countries. — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR immigration correspondent based in Texas 

21. “I think the number is 20 million, but whether it's 15 or 20, it's numbers that nobody's ever heard before. 20 million people came over the border in the last– during the Biden-Harris administration. Twenty-million people. And it could be very much higher than that. Nobody really knows what the number is.”

It’s unclear where Trump is getting this number from. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection , since 2021 agents have had more than 7.3 million encounters nationwide with migrants trying to cross into the country illegally. Under Biden, unlawful crossings hit an all-time high last year, but that number has decreased significantly, in part, due to Biden’s asylum restrictions at the Southern U.S. border. An April report from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics found there’s nearly 11 million unauthorized migrants in the country. — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

22. “Just like far more people were killed in the Ukraine-Russia war than you have reported.”

Neither Russia nor Ukraine is revealing its own casualty figures, so there are only very broad estimates. — Andrew Sussman 

23. “A lot of great things would have happened, but now you have millions and millions of dead people. And you have people dying financially, because they can't buy bacon; they can't buy food; they can't buy groceries; they can't do anything. And they're living horribly in our country right now.”

Grocery prices actually jumped sharply during Trump’s last year in office, as pandemic lockdowns disrupted the food supply chain and Americans were suddenly forced to eat more of their meals at home. Grocery inflation in June 2020 hit 5.6%. This was masked, however, by a plunge in other prices, as the global economy fell into pandemic recession.

As the economy rebounded, prices did, too. Inflation began to rise in 2021, and spiked in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent food and energy prices soaring. Inflation has since moderated, falling from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3% in June 2024 . (July’s inflation figures will be released next week.) Grocery prices have largely leveled off in the last year, although they remain higher than they were before the pandemic – a potent reminder of the rising cost of living.

Economists have warned that Trump’s proposed import tariffs and immigration restrictions could result in higher inflation in the years to come. Researchers from the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimate the tariffs alone would cost the typical family about $1,700 a year . — Scott Horsley

24. “We've agreed with NBC, fairly full agreement, subject to them, on Sept. 10th.”

This is ABC, not NBC.

25. “She can't do an interview. She's barely competent and she can't do an interview.” 

Harris hasn’t done interviews since getting into the campaign, but she has done them in the past, so saying “she can’t do” one or that she is “barely competent” are just insults. Trump tends to revert to questioning the intelligence of Black women who challenge him. In fact, Trump did it nine times in this news conference, saying either Harris is not that “smart” (five times) "incompetent” (three times) or “barely competent,” as he did here.

26-27. “Why is it that millions of people were allowed to come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums, even insane asylums, that's a– it's a mental institution on steroids. That's what it is.”

Immigration experts have said they have not been able to find any evidence of this. Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, told FactCheck.org : “It’s hard to prove a negative — nobody’s writing a report saying, ‘Ecuador is not opening its mental institutions’ — but what I can say is that I work full-time on migration, am on many coalition mailing lists, correspond constantly with partners in the region, and scan 300+ RSS feeds and Twitter lists of press outlets and activists region wide, and I have not seen a single report indicating that this is happening. … As far as I can tell, it’s a total fabrication.”

Notably, a version of this did happen in 1980 during the Mariel boatlift from Cuba . The Washington Post noted three years later: “Back in 1980, it seemed to be a humanitarian and patriotic gesture to accept provisionally, without papers or visas, all those fleeing from the port of Mariel. More than 125,000 came. Most were true refugees, many had families here, and the great majority has settled into American communities without mishap. But the Cuban dictator played a cruel joke. He opened his jails and mental hospitals and put their inmates on the boats too.”

Without a question, some migrants who have come into the U.S. have committed crimes, but the data show the vast majority do not. According to Northwestern University , immigrants are less likely to commit a crime than U.S.-born people and certainly at no higher rates that the population writ large. (Trump goes on to repeat this claim minutes later in the news conference as well, so it is included in our count here.)

28. “We have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country.”

Trump may have this opinion, but he says it as if it’s fact, and a 2022 survey of historians ranked Biden in the top half of presidents. Trump, on the other hand, was No. 43. The two below Trump were James Buchanan, who did little to stop the impending U.S. Civil War, and the impeached and nearly convicted Andrew Johnson.

29. “We have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president in the history of our country.” 

A recent rating of vice presidents did not show this. Harris was in the bottom half of vice presidents, but Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle, Henry A. Wallace and were toward the bottom of the list.

30. “The most unpopular vice president.”

This might have been true about a year ago or so, but not anymore. An NBC poll then showed Harris had the lowest favorability rating of any modern VP they’d tested. But her numbers have turned around. The NPR poll had Harris with a 46%/48% favorable to unfavorable rating, which was higher than Trump’s and his running mate, JD Vance, who is among the least popular running mates in recent history .

31. “Don't forget, she was the first one defeated. As I remember it, because I watched it very closely, but she was the first one.”

Harris was not “defeated,” because she dropped out of the Democratic presidential race before Iowa. But even if one considers her dropping out on Dec. 3, 2019, a defeat, she was not the first of the Democratic candidates in that primary campaign to do so. At least 10 others dropped out sooner .

32-34. “And I'm no Biden fan, but I'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you're looking at, they took the presidency away. … And they took it away.” 

There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution about picking presidential candidates. This is a party process, and everything has been done within party rules. And, again, the presidency wasn’t taken away: Biden is still president.

35. “They said they're going to use the 25th Amendment.”

This was never floated as a possibility to get Biden to withdraw from the race. Biden’s Cabinet members are all people he appointed and who are loyal to him. In addition, the 25th Amendment outlines a procedure for removing a sitting president from office, not from running for a second term.

36-39. "They're going to hit you hard. ‘Either we can do it the nice way. I heard, I know exactly, because I know a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not. And, they said, ‘We'll do it the nice way, or we'll do it the hard way.’ And he said, ‘All right.”

This was not said; he did not hear; no Democrats in the know are talking to Trump; and this dialogue is made up.

40. “We're leading, we're leading.”

The race is statistically tied in national polls and in the states. In some national polls, Harris leads. In some, Trump does.

41-42. “I'm saying it's a–, for a country with a Constitution that we cherish, we cherish this Constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible. … But to just take it away from him, like he was a child.”

Again, this is Trump talking about how Biden stepped aside, and there’s nothing in the Constitution about how the political parties should pick candidates. And nothing was taken away.

43-46. “And he's a very angry man right now, I can tell you that. He's not happy with Obama, and he's not happy with Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy, she is crazy, too. She's not happy with any of the people that told him that you've gotta leave. He's very unhappy, very angry, and I think he, He also blames her. He's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that. I'm not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed, and he had a rough debate, but that doesn't mean that you just take it away like that.” 

Trump can’t speak to Biden’s state of mind; all evidence is that Nancy Pelosi is perfectly sane – see her recent multiple rounds of interviews about her book, including with NPR ; again, Trump doesn’t know Biden’s state of mind; and again, nobody took it away.

47-51. “She's trying to say she had nothing to do with the border. She had everything. She was appointed to head the border. And then they said border czar. Oh, she loved that name. She loved that name. But she never went there. She went to a location once along the border, but that was a location that you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever. That was a location that was not part of the problem. That was not really going to the border. So I– essentially she never went to the border.”

(1) As previously noted, she was not put in charge of the border and certainly did not have “everything” to do with it; (2) she was not appointed to head the border; (3) if “they” is the White House, then “they” did not call her “border czar”; (4) Trump doesn’t know what Harris might have thought about the term; (5) Harris did not go to a place at the border “you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever.”

In 2021, Harris toured border patrol facilities in El Paso, Texas, visited an area where asylum seekers were screened, and met with migrants. Republicans criticized her at the time for not going to the Rio Grande Valley.

52. “Now we have the worst border in the history of the world.” 

World history is filled with cases where one country has crossed a border and invaded a neighboring country.

53. “She destroyed San Francisco. She destroyed California as the A.G. But as the D.A. She destroyed it. She– San Francisco. … She destroyed– no cash bail, weak on crime, uh, she's terrible.”

As San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011, and then California’s attorney general until 2017, it’s true that Kamala Harris was deeply connected to how crime was prosecuted during that particular period. However, no single person is responsible for destroying any city or state, not to mention that both are not destroyed.

There are just too many factors that contribute to why crime rises and falls. What’s more, according to the FBI , both violent and property crime rates in California more or less mirrored national trends during her tenures. As a prosecutor, Harris was largely seen as aligning more with law-and-order tendencies, though she has supported some progressive reforms, like offering certain criminal defendants drug treatment instead of going to trial. She also tweeted support for a Minnesota bail fund after the 2020 protests of George Floyd’s murder. — Meg Anderson

During her campaign for the 2020 nomination, she rolled out a plan that would have phased out cash bail , and she pledged to eliminate it as president because “no one should have to sit in jail for days or even years because they don’t have the money to pay bail.” But in the same campaign, during a debate, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard criticized Harris for keeping cash bail in place as district attorney.

54. “And yet they weaponized the system against me.” 

The justice system was not weaponized against Trump. Biden went through pains to not show any interference with the Justice Department. And Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers in New York in a state case.

55-58. “I won the big case in Florida. I won the big case. … Nobody even wrote about it. The big case.” 

(1) Trump did not “win” the classified documents case against him in Florida; (2) this was not “the big case” against him; (3) there was plenty of coverage of it; and (4) he goes on to repeat that he won the case later.

For context: the judge in the case controversially dismissed it, claiming the special counsel was unconstitutionally appointed despite Supreme Court decisions upholding independent counsels. The Justice Department has signaled it will appeal by the end of August but by the time the decision comes back, the election will be over.

Trump had four criminal cases against him including the classified documents case – the fraudulent business practices case in New York, for which he was convicted on 34 felony counts; an election interference case in Georgia; and the other federal case dealing with Jan. 6. If there was a biggest case, it was the last one.

59. “The judge was a brilliant judge, and all they do is they play the ref with the judges. But this judge was a fair but brilliant judge.”

There has been lots of criticism of the judge in the case, Aileen Cannon, who Trump appointed. She had very little experience as a trial judge, made several decisions that were questioned by legal experts and early in this case, had a ruling, in which she called for a special master to review classified documents first, overturned by the 11th Circuit.

60. “Now Biden lost it because he didn't have presidential immunity. He didn't have the Presidential Records Act. He lost it.”

This was not “Biden’s case.” It was to be tried by special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Biden White House has made efforts to keep an arms-length distance from the investigation. Biden often declined to comment on the Justice Department’s and state investigations into Trump when it would likely have been politically advantageous for him to talk about it on the campaign trail.

61. “But the– I call it prosecutors, special counsel, special prosecutor to me. He–, appointed by him and appointed by Garland. He said the man's incompetent. He can't stand trial, but he can run for president.” 

This appears to be a misrepresentation of what special counsel Robert Hur said of Biden in a report he released investigating the president’s handling of classified documents. Hur said he wouldn’t be charging Biden, called the president “an elderly man with a poor memory" and said a jury might find sympathy with him because of it. He did not say Biden was incompetent and could not stand trial.

62. “She couldn't pass her bar exam.”

This is false. Harris passed her bar exam on the second try . She failed on first attempt, which is not unusual for California’s bar exam given its difficulty.

63. “I was doing very well with Black voters, and I still am. I seem to be doing very well with Black males. This is according to polls, as you know. 

Trump was not doing “very well” with Black voters. Biden was not doing as well with Black voters as he did in 2020, according to most surveys, but that didn’t mean Black voters were moving heavily toward Trump. Many seemed more likely not to vote. There were signs that Trump was doing better with Black men, but there wasn’t much good evidence to support this in polling, considering most national polls have such high margins of error with voter groups. A typical national survey might have 1,000 voters and 100 or so Black voters, give or take. That’s typically a margin of error upward of +/- 10 percentage points, meaning results could be a whopping 10 points higher or lower.

64. “Extremely well with Hispanic.”

Like with Black voters, it’s difficult to tell in most national surveys exactly how well a candidate is doing with Latino voters because of high margins of error. “Extremely well” depends on how it’s defined, but this is an exaggeration.

65. “Jewish voters, way up.”

Jewish voters traditionally vote roughly 2-to-1 for Democrats in presidential elections, so this seems more like a hope than reality.

66. “White males, way up. White males have gone through the roof. White males, way up.” 

It’s just not the case that Trump is “way up.” NPR polling finds that while Trump is doing as well as ever with white men without college degrees, Harris – and Biden before her – is actually leading with white men with college degrees, a group Trump won in 2020, according to exit polls .

67. “It could be that I'll be affected somewhat with Black females. Well, we're doing pretty well. And I think ultimately they'll like me better, because I'm gonna give them security, safety and jobs.”

Trump is not doing well with Black females. Black women are a key pillar Democratic voting group, and Black voters have moved more in Harris’ favor since she’s gotten in.

69. “We have a very bad economy right now. We could, we could literally be on the throes of a depression. Not recession, a Depression. And they can't have that. They can't have that.”

This is not the case. See earlier fact check. (He repeats this again later in the press conference, so it is included here in the count.)

70. “I know Josh Shapiro. He's a terrible guy. And he's not very popular with anybody.” 

A Fox News poll last month showed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a finalist to be Harris’ running mate, had a 61% approval rating in the state. Other polls also found him with a net-positive rating, though, not quite as high.

71. “Listen, I had 107,000 people in New Jersey. You didn't report it.”

It was reported that the numbers come from faulty information about the size of a crowd at Trump’s rally. More accurate estimates appear to be anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 . Still, a very large crowd, but Trump is exaggerating here.

72-77. “What did she have yesterday? 2,000 people? If I ever had 2,000 people, you'd say my campaign is finished. It's so dishonest, the press. … When she gets 1,500 people, and I saw it yesterday on ABC, which they said, ‘Oh, the crowd was so big.’ … I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size. And no, they never say the crowd was big. … I think it's so terrible when you say, ‘Well she has 1,500 people, 1,000 people,’ and they talk about, oh, the enthusiasm.” 

(1-3) Trump gave at least three incorrect estimates here, downplaying Harris’ crowd sizes (2,000, 1,500 and 1,000); (4) He also far overestimated how big his crowd sizes are compared to Harris’; (5-6) He twice said the press is dishonest about her crowd size and about his.

For context, the Harris campaign’s estimate was 10,000 or more at each rally. What the exact number is might be unclear — as is often the case with crowd-size estimates — but they were bigger than 2,000 and 1,500. Reporters have often commented on the size of Trump’s crowds. Frequently, they are very large, certainly larger than ones that Hillary Clinton drew in 2016 or Joe Biden this year, but Trump also regularly exaggerates their sizes.

78. “If I were president, you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine, where it never happened. Zero chance. You wouldn't have had Oct. 7th of Israel.”

This is speculation, and that there is simply no way to know what would have happened in either case if he'd been reelected.

79. “You wouldn't have had inflation. You wouldn't have had any inflation because inflation was caused by their bad energy problems.” 

Again, this is speculative. Energy and food prices jumped sharply around the world following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting sanctions on Russian energy. Gasoline prices in the U.S. hit a record high topping $5 a gallon. But domestic energy production has not suffered during the Biden administration. In fact, U.S. oil and natural gas production hit record highs last year. AAA reports the average price of gasoline today is $3.45/gallon. — Scott Horsley

80. "I don't know if you know, they're drilling now because they had to go back because gasoline was going up to $7, $8, $9 a barrel."

Oil and gas production has largely been determined by energy companies. They were disciplined about not expanding production when prices were low but have become more aggressive as prices climbed. While Kamala Harris opposed “fracking” for oil and gas during her 2019 presidential campaign, she now says she would not try to outlaw the practice – which is important in battleground states such as Pennsylvania. — Scott Horsley

81. “Everybody's going to be forced to buy an electric car, which they're not going to do because they don't want that. It's got a great market. It's got a market. It's really a sub market.”

The Biden administration has set a goal of having 50% of new vehicle sales be electric by 2030 . It has primarily tried to achieve this through carrots rather than sticks, offering incentives to make electric cars more affordable, encouraging the development of electric charging stations and using the federal government’s own purchasing power to create demand. — Scott Horsley

82. “We don't have enough electricity. We couldn't make enough electricity for that.”

A shift to electric vehicles will require a rapid updating and expansion of the U.S. power grid, according to the Electric Power Research Institute . However, as EVs become more efficient, the increased demand could be reduced by as much as 50% per mile traveled over the next three decades. — Scott Horsley

83. “The weight of a car, the weight of a truck, they want all trucks to be electric. Little things that a lot of people don't talk about. The weight of a truck is two-and-a-half times, two-and-a- half times heavier.” 

Electric vehicles are typically heavier than gasoline-powered vehicles, because of the batteries. But the weight difference is about 30% , not 250% as Trump said. What’s more, American vehicles have been getting heavier for decades, long before the move to EVs, thanks to the popularity of pickup trucks and SUVs.

84. “You would have to rebuild every bridge in this country, if you were going to do this ridiculous policy.”

While many bridges and other transportation infrastructure need improvement , the additional weight of EVs is just one of many factors that will need to be considered. Another challenge is that bridges and highways are typically funded through gasoline taxes. The shift to EVs, which don’t use gasoline, will require an alternate source of highway funding.

85-90. “So, but on crowd size in history, for any country, nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that. And when she gets 1,000 people and everybody starts jumping, you know that if I had a thousand people would say, people would say, that's the end of his campaign. I have hundreds of thousands of people in, uh, South Carolina. I had 88,000 people in Alabama. I had 68,000 people. Nobody says about crowd size with me, but she has 1,000 people or 1,500 people, and they say, oh, the enthusiasm's back.”

There were at least six different misstatements here – (1) Trump has had large crowds, but “in history,” there certainly there have been people with larger crowds, from Barack Obama and others; (2, 3) her crowds have been larger than 1,000, which he repeats twice; (4) no serious analysts have said this is the end of Trump’s campaign. This race is very close; (5) there’s no evidence for crowds of the size Trump notes in South Carolina and Alabama; (6) people do talk about Trump’s crowd sizes.

91. “They wanna stop people from pouring into our country, from places unknown and from countries unknown from countries that nobody ever heard of.”

Someone has likely heard of whatever the unnamed country is.

92-93. “We're leading in Georgia by a lot. We're leading in Pennsylvania by a lot.”

The races in Georgia and Pennsylvania are within the margin of error, according to an average of the polls.

94. “So I won Alabama by a record. Nobody's ever gotten that many votes. I won South Carolina by a record. You don't win Alabama and South Carolina by records and lose Georgia. It doesn't happen.”

It does, and here’s why. Demographically, Georgia has become very different from South Carolina and Alabama. Georgia’s population is now majority-minority, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Alabama and South Carolina are 64% and 63% white, respectively.

Georgia’s Black population is also significant politically — 33% of the state’s population is Black. By comparison, Alabama is 27% Black, South Carolina 26%. Latinos also make up 11% of Georgia’s population and Asian Americans are 5%, both of which are higher than Alabama and South Carolina. And Georgia’s population is marginally younger — 15% of Georgia’s population is older than 65% compared to 18% in Alabama and 19% in South Carolina.

95. “If we have honest elections in Georgia, if we have honest elections in Pennsylvania, We're gonna win them by a lot.”

Winning them by a lot is highly unlikely, considering how close the states have been in recent elections, but perhaps more pressing is Trump’s insinuation that there were voting problems in the two states, which there were not. That’s why Trump is upset with Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, for example, because he upheld the valid 2020 election results even in the face of pressure from Trump.

96. “Of course there'll be a peaceful transfer. And there was last time.”

This wholly ignores the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, which took place because of Trump’s election lies.

97. “Because I'm leading by a lot.”

Again, this is a very close race.

98. “We have commercials that are at a level I don't think that anybody's ever done before.”

This is false. Since Super Tuesday, Democrats have outspent Trump’s campaign and outside groups supporting him by more than double, according to data provided by AdImpact and analyzed by NPR — $373.5 million to $150.6 million.

99. “She's not smart enough to do a news conference.”

There is plenty of evidence that Harris is “smart enough to do a news conference,” as she has done in the past.

100. "We're in great danger of being in World War III. That could happen." 

Again, no serious analyst believes this.

101. “I think those people were treated very harshly, when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed.”

The Justice Department investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is the largest and most complex federal criminal probe in U.S. history, the attorney general has said. More than 140 law enforcement officers were injured that day, in what U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves has described as the biggest mass casualty event involving police. It’s hard to find any comparable event in recent American history.

As of Aug. 6, 2024, according to Graves’s office, prosecutors have charged more than 160 people with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Prosecutors have also secured convictions on the rarely-deployed charge of seditious conspiracy, or attempting to overthrow the government by use of force, against top leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

Even so, only a small number of Jan. 6 defendants have been held in federal custody while they await trial. Mostly, these are the rioters who allegedly used the most violence on that day more than three years ago. Republican members of Congress have toured the jail facilities and decried conditions there, expressions of support that defendants facing ordinary charges in D.C. have not received. — Carrie Johnson, NPR national justice correspondent

102. “Nobody was killed on Jan. 6th.” 

Conservatives were upset at the time that one of the rioters, Ashli Babbitt, was killed when she was shot by police, as she was trying to force her way into the Speaker’s Lobby of the Capitol, which leads to the House chamber, with a crowd of others. Many officers were injured that day; one died of a stroke as a result of Jan. 6; and others later died by suicide that their families say was also a result of Jan. 6.

103-105. “And, you know, it's very interesting, the biggest crowd I've ever spoken to. … The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day. … The biggest crowd I've ever spoken. … I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me.” 

It was not the biggest crowd he’s ever spoken to. His inauguration would have topped that. And others have had bigger crowds, as noted earlier.

106. “I said peacefully and patriotically.”

While Trump did utter those words, it is misleading. Trump also said the word “fight” multiple times , and he told the already angry crowd because of the election lies he fed them: “We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Trump aides testified that he “refused” to tweet the word “peaceful” in the days leading up to the rally because he thought it might discourage people from being there, and he was concerned about his crowd size.

107-108. “If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same, everything, same number of people. If not, we had more. …You look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, uh, we actually had more people.”

First, the speeches did not take place at the “same real estate.” Trump spoke from a position just south of the Ellipse. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Second, the crowds were not the same size and Trump’s was certainly not larger. It is an extraordinary claim and shows just how much Trump cares about crowd size.

109. “We have a Constitution. It's a very important document, and we live by it. She has no votes.” 

Again, there’s nothing in the Constitution about how parties should pick their presidents.

110-111. “They said, ‘You're not going to win, you can't win, you're out.’ And at first they said it nicely, and he wasn't leaving, and then you, you know, the, you know it better than anybody. … At first, they were going to go out to another vote, they were going to go through a primary system, a quick primary system, which it would have to be. And then it all disappeared, and they just picked a person.”

As explained earlier, this is not how Biden wound up stepping aside. The story is yet another Trump invention. He also lies here in saying that “they were going to go through a primary system” and “it would have to be” a quick primary system.” There’s no requirement that a primary is held. In fact, for many years, candidates’ selection as party nominees had nothing to do with primaries, and they were not as prevalent as today.

112-113. “That was the first out. She was the first loser, OK? So, we call her the first loser. She was the first loser when– during the primary system, during the Democrat primary system, she was the first one to quit. And she quit.”

As explained earlier, Harris was not the first one out in the 2020 Democratic primary race. And “first loser” appears to be a name Trump made up at this news conference, as Harris has not been referred to that way as a result of her run for the 2020 nomination.

114. “She did, obviously, a bad job. She never made it to Iowa. Then for some reason, and I'm, I know he regrets it, you do too, uh, he picked her, and she turned on him too. She was working with the people that wanted him out."

Once again, this is a false conspiracy invented by Trump.

115. “She was the first one out.” 

Trump repeats this false line again.

116. “I think the abortion issue is written very much tempered down, and I've answered I think very well in the debate, and it seems to be much less of an issue, especially for those where they have the exceptions.”

Abortion rights as a political and social issue has certainly not “tempered down.” There are millions of women, especially across the South, who do not have access to abortion and women who have experienced pregnancy losses with the inability to access medications for those necessary procedures.

117. “As you know, and I think it's when I look for 52 years, they wanted to bring abortion back to the states. They wanted to get rid of Roe v. Wade and that's Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, and everybody. Liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it back in the states. And I did that.”

Everybody absolutely did not want that. It was actually quite unpopular for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe . And he again repeats that it has become less of an issue.

118-119. “I think that abortion has become much less of an issue. It's a very small.” 

“I think it's actually going to be a very small issue. What I've done is I've done what every Democrat and every Every Republican wanted to have done.” 

“I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don't think it's of– I don't think it's a big factor anymore, really.”

Minutes apart from each other, he repeats these three false claims. Abortion rights is not a “very small” issue for millions of voters. Democrats are organizing around it, and it has been seminal to Biden and Harris’ campaigns.

120. “Previous to [Virginia Gov.] Glenn [Youngkin], the governor, he said the baby will be born, we will put the baby aside, and we will decide with the mother what we're going to do. In other words, whether or not we're going to kill the baby.”

This is a distortion Republicans continue to push about what former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said. This has been fact-checked by others multiple times .

121-122. “I think the abortion issue has been, uh, taken down many notches. I don't think it's of, uh, I don't think it's a big factor anymore, really.”

“Everybody wanted it in the states.”

“But that issue has is very much subdued.”

He once again returns to the issue of abortions, which remains a “factor,” not everybody wanted it in the states, the issue is not “very much subdued.”

123-124. “ She wants to take away everyone's gun.” 

Harris has not proposed taking away all guns. She has proposed banning assault-style weapons, something that was in place for a decade. Some surveys had shown majority support for this. Others show a split. (Trump makes this case later, as well, so that is also included in the count.)

125. “Some countries have actually gone the opposite way. They had very strong gun laws and now they have gone the opposite way, where they allowed people to have guns, where in one case they encouraged people to go out and get guns, and crime is down 29%.”

It’s difficult to compare gun violence and gun laws in the United States to other countries, simply because of the staggering amount of guns we have here. Although the U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, it holds almost 40% or more of the world’s civilian-owned guns. And it has “the highest homicide-by-firearm rate of the world’s most developed nations,” per the Council on Foreign Relations . Norway, Canada and Australia all tightened their gun restrictions after shootings. — Meg Anderson

126. “On July 4th, 117 people were shot and 17 died. The toughest gun laws in the United States are in the city of Chicago. You know that. They had 117 people shot. Afghanistan does not have that.” 

Though Trump didn’t get the numbers exactly right, Chicago did have an incredibly violent July 4th holiday weekend this year. According to Mayor Brandon Johnson, more than 100 people were shot and 19 of those people died. Chicago does have strict gun laws, in part because its state does: Everytown For Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, ranks Illinois third in the nation for the strength of its gun-control laws. However, no state or city exists within a bubble, and Illinois is surrounded by states with much weaker laws, including Indiana, which is just a short drive from Chicago. — Meg Anderson

127. “For 18 months, not one American soldier was shot at or killed, but not even shot at.” 

This is, to put it charitably, misleading. It appears that he’s actually referencing the period when the Trump administration signed the deal with the Taliban, in advance of U.S. troops leaving. The deal said the U.S. would be out in 14 months, and in exchange the Taliban wouldn’t harbor terrorists and would stop attacking U.S. service members. Needless to say, the deal didn’t hold. But as the AP notes , “There was an 18-month stretch that saw no combat, or ‘hostile,’ deaths in Afghanistan: from early February 2020 to August 2021.” – Andrew Sussman

128. “Kamala is in favor of not giving Israel weapons. That's what I hear.”

Harris does not support an Israel weapons embargo. A Biden administration official posted on social media that Harris "has been clear: she will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.” A leader of the uncommitted movement said Harris “expressed an openness” to a meeting about an embargo, but the Biden administration official said Harris "will continue to work to protect civilians in Gaza and to uphold international humanitarian law,” not that she would support an embargo.

129. “She's been very, very bad to Israel, and she's been very bad and disrespectful to Jewish people.”

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. The couple has hosted Passover Seders.

130. “Well, I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing.”

This claim has not held up to scrutiny. Politico reported that Trump did have to make an emergency landing in a helicopter with a Black California politician decades ago, but it wasn’t Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and state assembly speaker. It was Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator.

131-132. “This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was— he was a little concerned. So I know him. I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven't seen him in years. But he told me terrible things about her.”

“He was not a fan of hers very much at that point.”

This is something Trump repeated twice, minutes apart from each other. Brown strongly denies having been on a helicopter with Trump or telling Trump negative things about Harris, whom he dated in the mid-1990s and supports now for president. The relationship ended in 1995.

133. “Our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history… .”

The 2017 tax cuts were not the biggest in history. As a share of the economy, they barely make the top 10 . They were big enough, however, to blow a big hole in the federal budget, which is why Trump was overseeing a nearly $1 trillion dollar annual deficit before the pandemic. — Scott Horsley

134. “It'll destroy the economy.”

This is what Trump said will happen if his tax cuts are not renewed. But The 2017 tax cut did not deliver the economic boom that its supporters promised, and there’s no reason to think reversing a portion of the cut would cause economic destruction. — Scott Horsley

135. “I've never seen people get elected by saying, 'We're going to give you a tax increase.'”

Vice President Harris has echoed President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000. However, Biden has called for raising taxes on wealthy individuals and raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% – halfway back to where it was before the 2017 cut. — Scott Horsley

136. “These guys get up, think of it. ‘We're going to give you no security.’ …”

No Democratic presidential candidate has advocated “no security.”

137. “We're going to give you a weak military… .’ ”

An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, showed a “review of historical defense budget trends shows there is more at play in determining overall investments in defense than just which party is in the White House.” Indeed, since the year 2000, U.S.-led wars overseas have resulted in a surge of spending by both Democratic and Republican administrations.

138-139. “…We're going to give you no walls, no borders, no anything.”

Harris, Walz and the Democratic Party have never said they want “no borders.” They certainly oppose Trump’s wall/fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, citing the exorbitant cost and its relative ineffectiveness, they say, compared to using other methods. (Trump later says that Harris wants “open borders,” so that’s included in the count here.)

140. “...We're going to give you a tax increase.”

Again, this is misleading and suggests Harris wants to increase taxes across the board when they have consistently talked about increasing taxes only on the wealthy. In Harris’ view, those making more than $400,000 a year .

141. “They're gonna destroy Social Security.”

Democrats have consistently advocated for keeping Social Security and making it solvent.

142. “They've weaponized government against me. Look at the Florida case. It was a totally weaponized case. All of these cases, by the way, the New York cases are totally controlled out of the Department of Justice. They sent their top person to the various places. They went to the A.G.'s office, got that one going, then he went to the D.A.'s office, got that one going, ran through it. No, no, this is all politics, and it's a disgrace.”

In congressional testimony this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers that President Biden had never called him to discuss any of the cases against Trump. Garland also had aides review Justice Department leaders’ email for any correspondence with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In a letter to Congress in June 2024, the Justice Department said it had found no such contacts.

In that same letter, Justice Department legislative affairs chief Carlos Uriarte said the department did not “dispatch” former acting Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo to New York to join Bragg’s team prosecuting Trump. “Department leadership was unaware of his work on the investigation and prosecution involving the former president until it was reported in the news,” Uriarte wrote. — Carrie Johnson

143. “Any time you have mail-in ballots, you're gonna have problems. ... We should have one-day voting; we should have paper ballots; we should have voter ID; and we should have proof of citizenship.” 

Trump continues to spread baseless claims about mail ballots. There’s no proof of widespread fraud with the voting method. When it comes to paper ballots, they're standard. One estimate found that in the 2024 general election, "nearly 99% of all registered voters will live in jurisdictions where they can cast a ballot with a paper record of the vote."

The proof of citizenship comment echoes a Republican push on the issue , though studies have shown voting by non-U.S. citizens in federal elections to be exceedingly rare. The GOP-led House has passed a bill to require such documentary proof, but it’s likely to go no further in a Senate led by Democrats who are opposed to adding new voting restrictions. — Ben Swasey, voting editor

144. “The polls have suggested, there are some polls that say we're going to win in a landslide.” 

There are no polls that suggest Trump will win in a landslide. By all accounts, this is a very close race.

145. “...they're paying 50, 60, 70 percent more for food than they did just a couple of years ago.”

The rise in grocery prices is a common complaint , but Trump exaggerates the scale of the increase. According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery prices have risen 25% since before the pandemic and 21% since President Biden took office. (At the same time, average wages have risen 23% since before the pandemic and 17% since President Biden took office.)

146-149. The Strategic National Reserve is “virtually empty now. We've never had it this low.”

“He's sucked all of the oil out.”

“Essentially the gasoline to keep the, to keep the price down a little bit. … But you know what? We have no strategic national reserves now. He's emptied it. It's almost empty. It's never been this low.”

“They've just, for the sake of getting some votes, for the sake of having gasoline–. You know, that's meant for wars. It's meant for, like, tragedy. It's not meant to keep a gasoline price down, so that somebody can vote for Biden or, in this case, Kamala.” 

The strategic oil reserve is actually up in the past year . Biden has since repurchased about 32 million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. As of this month, the reserve held about 376 million barrels of oil. The reserve was lower when Trump left office than when he got in.

150. “I see it right now, I see her going way down on the polls now.”

The opposite is true. Harris has continued her momentum since getting into the race.

151-152. “...now that people are finding out that she destroyed San Francisco, she destroyed the state of California.” 

As addressed earlier, Harris is not entirely responsible for San Francisco or the state of California. Crime trends there were similar to national crime trends during her time as district attorney in San Francisco and as the state’s attorney general. What’s more, preliminary data for this year indicates that many cities in California, including San Francisco, are seeing murder rates falling. (Trump repeats the claim one more time later in the news conference, so it is included in the count here.) — Meg Anderson

153. “She was early, I mean, she was the first of the prosecutors, really, you know, now you see Philadelphia, you see Los Angeles, you see New York, you see various people that are very bad, but she was the first of the bad prosecutors, she was early.”

Although Harris did refer to herself in her 2019 memoir as a “progressive prosecutor,” her legacy has largely been seen as tougher on crime. She has supported some progressive reforms, such as pretrial diversion, which offers certain criminal defendants things like drug treatment instead of going to trial. — Meg Anderson

154. “You know, with Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your head spin. I thought it was a very bad thing – take the wife of a president of the United States, and put her in jail. And then I see the way they treat me. That's the way it goes. But I was very protective of her. Nobody would understand that. But I was. I think my people understand it. They used to say, lock her up, lock her up. And I'd say, just relax, please.”

Trump called for Clinton’s imprisonment multiple times , including going along with crowd chants of “lock her up.”

155. “Don't forget, she got a subpoena from the United States Congress, and then after getting the subpoena, she destroyed everything that she was supposed to get. 

Clinton aides requested emails be deleted months before the subpoena, and the FBI said there’s no evidence the messages were deleted with a subpoena in mind. — Carrie Johnson

156. “I thought it was so bad to take her, and put her in jail, the wife of a president of the United States. And then, when it's my turn, nobody thinks that way.”

The Justice Department closed an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct some State Department business in 2016. Then-FBI Director Jim Comey gave a press conference to explain his reasoning in July of that election year. Comey said, “We did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information,” but he criticized Clinton and her aides for being “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information” that flowed through the server.

By contrast, prosecutors in the Florida case against former President Donald Trump said Trump had flouted requests from the FBI and a subpoena for highly classified materials he stored in unsecure spaces like a ballroom and a bathroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort. The indictment in that case accuses Trump of unlawfully retaining government secrets and of intentionally obstructing justice with the help of an aide who moved boxes of materials and otherwise allegedly thwarted the FBI probe. Trump and his co-defendants pleaded not guilty. The Justice Department says it is appealing the district court’s decision to toss the case on constitutional grounds. — Carrie Johnson

157. “A lot of the MAGA, as they call them, but the base. And I think the base is, I think the base is 75% of the country, far beyond the Republican Party.”

Rounding up, Trump won 46% of the vote in 2016 and 47% of the vote in 2020. He has a high floor, but a low ceiling politically. Majorities continue to say they have an unfavorable rating of Trump, which has been consistent for years. No American presidential candidate has ever gotten 75% of the vote in this country, dating back to 1824 since data was kept for popular votes. Lyndon B. Johnson got 61% in 1964, Richard Nixon slightly less than 61% in 1972, Ronald Reagan 59% in 1984. Since then, Barack Obama got nearly 53% in 2008 and 51% in 2012, the first candidate since Eisenhower to win at least 51% of the vote twice.

158. “My sons are members, and I guess indirectly I'm a member, too.”

Trump here is talking about membership in the National Rifle Association. Another family member being an NRA member does not make someone else an NRA member “indirectly.”

159. “She served 24 years for being on a phone call having to do with drugs. You know who I'm talking about. She was great. And she had another 24 years to go. And it was largely about marijuana, which in many cases is now legalized, OK?”

Presumably, Trump is talking about Alice Marie Johnson, who had been convicted on cocaine conspiracy and money laundering charges . Kim Kardashian advocated for Johnson and won a pardon for her from Trump.

160. “They're either really stupid, and I don't believe they're stupid, because anybody that can cheat in elections like they cheat is not stupid.”

More than 60 court cases proved there was not widespread fraud or cheating that would have made any difference in any state.

161. “Lately I've seen where they're trying to sign these people up to vote. And they have to stop. They cannot let illegal immigrants vote in this upcoming election.”

This is a conspiracy not based in fact. Immigrants in the country illegally cannot vote in presidential elections, and there’s no evidence there is an intentional effort to sign them up in mass numbers to sway elections.

162. “If you go to California, and you ask the people of California, do they like the idea of sanctuary cities? They don't like it.”

The subject of sanctuary cities actually mostly splits Californians. Slim majorities have actually said that they favor the sanctuary-state law and are against their cities opting out of the law. Of course, this breaks down along party lines, and since California is heavily Democratic, those results might not be surprising. But it’s more divided than Trump suggests.

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