What are some motivational quotes for college students?

Motivational quotes for college students usually focus on leaving your comfort zone or finding your purpose. Here are some examples:

  • “Know what sparks the light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful.” —Alan Alda, actor and filmmaker
  • “I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.” —Tara Westover, author of the best-selling 2018 memoir Educated

Motivational quotes for students work especially well in lecture slides, first-day icebreakers, or at the top of a syllabus or essay prompt.

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