Are you one of the many graduate students out there looking for some motivation in order to boost your life? It’s not going to a peace of cake to figure out what you want out of life but each day, trust that you are getting closer and closer to finding and doing what you love. I collected forty inspirational and motivational quotes that every graduate student should know to get that shot of encouragement to achieve your goals and find your calling.  If you can find only one quote that inspires you, it'll be well worth it!
  1. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Edison
  2. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners - Robert T. Kiyosaki
  3. Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them - Anonymous
  4. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert B. Swope
  5. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles Kettering
  6. Being different is one of the most beautiful things on earth. - Anonymous
  7. Creativity is intelligence having fun. - Albert Einsten
  8. The expert in anything was once a beginner. - Helen Hayes
  9. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
  10. There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison
  11. A journey to a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu
  12. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller
  13. I believe that every person is born with talent. - Maya Angelou
  14. Always desire to learn something useful. - Sophocles
  15. Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen. - Anonymous
  16. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. - Anonymous
  17. Learning is not a spectator sport. – D. Blocher
  18. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B. F. Skinner
  19. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein
  20. Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb
  21. Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. – Henry L. Doherty
  22. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain
  23. 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, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  24. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts
  25. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
  26. If you never try, you’ll never know. - Anonymous
  27. You don’t always get what you wish for, you get what you work for. - Anonymous
  28. Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. - Bohdi Sanders
  29. Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get. - Anonymous
  30. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
  31. Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen. - Anonymous
  32. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
  33. If you want to be successful as bad as you want to breathe than you will be successful. - Eric Thomas
  34. Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it. – Anonymous
  35. Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. – Anonymous
  36. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Anonymous
  37. Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have. – Anonymous
  38. Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1. - Anonymous
  39. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. – John Green
  40. Be yourself, everyone else is taken! – Oscar Wilde
  41. It doesn’t matter if you are a graduate student or you are a company leader, these quotes are for everyone. Let me know if you have any other motivational or inspirational quotes in your mind that I missed from this list that can inspire and motivate graduate students.