70 College Quotes To Hold Onto Before, During, and After

College is a lot of things at once.

It is excitement and panic in the same week. Big dreams sitting right next to late nights and self-doubt.

A lot of people don’t talk about how strange it feels to be in the middle of it all, trying to figure out who you are while also figuring out your schedule.

If you’re in that place right now, these college quotes might say exactly what you’re feeling.

Short College Quotes

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

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

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats

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

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” — Helen Hayes

“College is the reward for surviving high school.” — Judd Apatow

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” — Nora Ephron

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing.” — William Arthur Ward

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and love of what you are doing.” — Pelé

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” — Unknown

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

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

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats

“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“Strive for progress, not perfection.” — Unknown

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” — Brian Herbert

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.” — Dr. Seuss

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.” — Robin Sharma

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

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

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The beautiful future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” — Orrin Hatch

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Motivational College Quotes

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” — Walter Elliot

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson

“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” — Bobby Unser

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius