Many universities like to use some famous quotes as their mottos, which are both inspirational and motivating. Below I have prepared inspirational quotes from famous people for college students. I hope they will be helpful to you!

The latest inspirational quotes from famous people for college students

1. If you persevere, rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, gold and stone can be carved. ——Xun Kuang

2. Rather than looking at the fish in the abyss, it is better to retreat and build a net. ——"The Biography of Dong Zhongshu in the Historical Records of Hanshu"

3. With a white head and a strong heart, he can tame the sea, and with youthful spirit, he can travel across thousands of mountains. ——Lin Boqu

4. The road is made by feet, and history is written by people. Every step a person takes is writing his or her own history. ——Ji Hongchang

5. Whoever has the will to go through untold hardships can achieve any goal. ——Menander

6. The prime of life never comes again, and it is difficult to come back to the morning again. You should be encouraged in time, and time waits for no one. ——Tao Yuanming

7. Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, and today is the only cash you have - so you should use it wisely. ——Leonce

8. The so-called genius is just using the time that others spend drinking coffee on work. ——Lu Xun

9. The fastest and slowest, the longest and shortest, the most ordinary and most precious, the easiest to ignore and the most regrettable thing in the world is time. ——Gorky

10. Mistakes and setbacks teach us and make us smarter, so we can handle things better. Mistakes are inevitable for any political party or individual, and we ask for fewer mistakes. If you make a mistake, you need to correct it. The faster and more thorough the correction, the better. ——

Selected inspirational quotes from famous people for college students

1. If you have the courage to start, you will have the pride to succeed.

2. Sometimes the distance between success and failure is very short, but the latter is just a few steps forward.

3. If you yearn for the crown of success, don’t waste every day.

4. If you can successfully choose labor and pour all your energy into it, then happiness itself will find you.

5. Opportunity plays an important role, but on the other hand, even in those discoveries that are successful due to opportunity, opportunity only plays a part of the role.

6. Being generous with time is tantamount to chronic suicide. —— Ostrovsky

7. Seize today is better than two tomorrows. ——Latin American proverb

8. The little time that is not wasted or wasted or thrown away every day, even if it is only five or six minutes, can still achieve great results if it is used properly. If you are used to idleness, even if you are smart, you will not achieve anything. ——Lehman

9. Time is my property, and my land is time. ——Goethe

10. The Yellow River flows through the eastern sea, and the white sun sets over the western sea. The passing river and the flowing light are erratic and indifferent to each other. ——Li Bai

11. Time is accumulated by minutes and seconds. Only those who are good at using sporadic time will achieve greater results. ——Hua Luogeng

12. The lights are on at three and the chicken is on at five, which is the time for a man to make his determination. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

13. It would be sad if you waste your age. Because your youth only lasts a little while - a very short time. —— Oscar Wilde

14. The most loving person in the world is young Mo Langtou. ——Chen Yi

15. When many people hesitate on a road, they have to give way to a main road and let those who cherish time rush in front of them. ——Socrates

16. The dead are like this, and they don’t give up day and night. ——Confucius

17. Don’t say goodbye when youth goes away, don’t wave when old age comes. ——Russian proverb

18. Silk dyed will never turn white again, and temples will never turn white again. Love youth diligently, and once lost, you will never regain it. ——Xuan Guozhang

19. When you worry about the disease of time, you always have a sense of urgency. If you stagger and walk slowly, it is best to be whipped if you are lagging behind. ——Dong Biwu

20. Ambition and poverty are brothers in adversity, and they are often seen together in the world. ——Toro Fuller

Popular inspirational quotes by famous people for college students

1. Worry and labor can rejuvenate a country, and leisure can kill one's body. This is natural. ——Ouyang Xiu

2. Time is accumulated by minutes and seconds. Only those who are good at using sporadic moments will achieve greater results. ——Hua Luogeng

3. I am a lovely lover at all times. I am so enamored of you that I am telling you every minute: Work and create! Don’t waste your life!——Yu Sha

4. Without unwavering confidence, any action will fail. ——Hua Owen

5. A horse can take ten steps with one leap; a horse can ride ten steps without giving up its efforts. ——Xun Kuang

6. The situation does not wait for others, and it will turn into silk in a moment.

——Li Bai

7. Victory belongs to the most perseverant. ——Napoleon

8. Steel is tempered by fire and rapid cooling, so it can be hard and fearless. Our generation has also been trained in struggles and terrible tests, and has learned not to give in in the face of life. ——Ostrovsky

9. When we pause in front of some difficulties, he always says: "You will get it done! With your cleverness, this Little things can’t trouble you!” And often, just because of these words from our father, we miraculously get things done that we couldn’t do before, and become interested in things that were originally considered daunting. ——Roland

10. My essence is not the result of my will. On the contrary, my will is the result of my essence. Because I have existence first and then will, existence can exist without will. But without being there is no will. ——Feuerbach

11. Worry and labor can rejuvenate a country, and leisure can destroy one's life. ——Preface to the Biography of Lingguan, a New Historian of the Five Dynasties

12. The Yellow River flows through the eastern sea, and the white sun sets over the western sea. The passing river and the flowing light are indifferent to each other. ——Li Bai

13. There are so many people in the world who can successfully establish their careers, but they all end up in obscurity because they let the rare moments pass by. —— Maupassant

14. If the ambition is not true, the heart will not be warm, and if the heart is not warm, the work will be weak. ——Yan Yuan

15. Life is like climbing a mountain, and finding a way out is a learning process. In this process, we should learn to be stable and calm, and learn how to find vitality from panic. ——Xi Murong

16. The higher the goal a person pursues, the faster his talents develop and the more beneficial he is to society. ——Gorky

17. Self-consciousness is the mother of progress, and self-abasement is the source of degradation. Therefore, self-consciousness is indispensable, and self-abasement is indispensable. ——Zou Taofen

18. Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows! Waiting for tomorrow every day will make everything in vain. Everyone in the world is tired of tomorrow, and tomorrow will be endless. At dawn and dusk, the water flows eastward. Now and in ancient times, the sun is falling in the west. How many tomorrows can there be in a hundred years? Please listen to my "Song of Tomorrow". ——Wen Jia

19. He was a hero in life, but a hero in death. I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. ——Li Qingzhao

20. Being generous to the moment is tantamount to chronic suicide. ——Ostrovsky

21. The road is far away, but I will search for it up and down. ——Qu Yuan

22. True agility is a very valuable thing. Because time is the standard for measuring a career, just like money is the standard for measuring goods. ——French Bacon

23. The right road does not have to be a flat straight road. It will inevitably have some twists and turns, rugged obstacles, detours, and even go astray. ——Zhu Guangqian

24. No profession is easy. It is certainly not difficult to complete tasks in general, but it is not so easy to truly achieve something in your career and contribute to society. Therefore, To engage in all walks of life, you need to be ambitious. Only when you have ambition can you raise your standards and demand yourself at any time. ——Xie Juezai

25. The value of life is not measured by time, but by depth. ——Leo Tolstoy

26. Being immersed in the mud without being stained and not being eroded by the sugar-coated bullets of the bourgeoisie is the most valuable revolutionary quality. ——Guo Moruo

27. Spring silkworms don’t run out of silk until they die, and people don’t stop until they are pregnant. You must work hard as long as you have a breath left, leaving it as a good area for youth. ——Wu Yuzhang

28. The world in which people live is like a ship sailing in the sea. The most important thing is to discern the direction forward. ——Pan Shu

29. The ideal character should not only satisfy the material needs, but also satisfy the spiritual purpose. ——Hegel

30. Good things always take time, and you cannot achieve great things without putting in a lot of effort and labor. If you want to eat walnuts, you must first bite open the hard shell. ——Grimelshausen

31. Young people must first establish ambitions and set high aspirations, and secondly they must determine to be a useful talent for the country and the people; for this reason, they must choose a goal to strive for. Study hard and practice. ——Wu Yuzhang

32. A person should be like a candle. In his limited life, he has some heat and some light, giving people light and warmth. ——Xiao Chunu

33. I only regret one thing, the days are too short and pass too fast. A person can never see what has been accomplished, he can only see what should be done? - Marie Curie

34. Those who are not strong in ambition are not wise. ——Mo Zhai

35. My husband has ambitions all over the world, and he is still close to his neighbors thousands of miles away. ——Cao Zhi

36. Wasting time is the most luxurious and expensive of all expenditures. ——Franklin

　37. Those who pursue persistently and get the greatest happiness from it are the successful ones.

——Thoreau

38. The most promising people are not those with outstanding talents but those who make the best use of every opportunity to explore and develop. ——Socrates

39. We must remember that our learning time is limited. Time is limited, not only because life is short, but also because of the complexity of people. We should strive to use all our time to do the most beneficial things. ——Spencer

40. It is certainly dangerous for a ship to sail in rough waves, but as long as the helmsman is good at dealing with it, it is possible to avoid danger and cross the ocean and land on the other side. The same is true for a young person's employment. You are surrounded by difficulties. You have to deal with it calmly and break down the obstacles to find your bright road. You must know that God will never disappoint the ambition of a caring person. Unless you are afraid of difficulties and do not have the willpower to deal with them, you will be defeated.

——Dale Carnegie