College Quotes
The journey of college life is a unique and transformative experience that profoundly shapes individuals. It’s a time of intellectual exploration, personal growth, and the formation of lifelong friendships.
As students navigate the challenges and triumphs of this academic adventure, they often find inspiration and guidance in the words of wise thinkers, philosophers, and educators.
One of my favorite college quotes is by the American author and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
This quote encapsulates the power of mindset and the potential for personal transformation that college can offer. Please enjoy these quotes.
Quotes About College
1.) So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge, as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Gordon Gee
2.) I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
Phil Mickelson
3.) A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
4.) Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.
L. L. Henderson
5.) I think, especially when you’re in college, each book that you’re reading tends to tell you who you are.
Jeffrey Eugenides
6.) College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
7.) One of the great mind destroyers of a college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
Dennis Prager
Funny College Quotes
8.) College ain’t so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
Ossie Davis
9.) Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan
10.) They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles
11.) College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
Humorous Sayings
12.) College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
13.) The chief value in going to college is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t matter.
George Edwin Howes
14.) I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem
15.) In university, they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing
16.) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
R.S. Ingersoll
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Inspirational Quotes
17.) There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
General Colin Powell
18.) Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
19.) School, college, or lectures bring men, depending on what men bring to carry it home.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20.) Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
William James
21.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
22.) I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it.
Vincent Van Gogh
23.) If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
24.) 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
Inspirational Sayings
25.) There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
26.) Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
27.) You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Famous College Quotations
28.) When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
William J. Clinton
29.) The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
C. Wright Mills
30.) I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie Portman
31.) College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost
32.) I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go, and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there, I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible.
Tom Hanks
33.) I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice, you’ll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf
34.) Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.
Thomas Edison
College Quotes
35.) College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
J. Cole
36.) College inspired me to think differently. It’s like no other time in your life.
Larisa Oleynik
37.) Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
Joshua Chamberlain
38.) No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio Alger
39.) It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon college life as a medium, not an end.
Thomas Edward Brown
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Motivational Quotes for Students
40.) A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Thomas Ehrlich
41.) That’s what college is for – getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you’re forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of ’em on the wall in my room.
Jeph Jacques
42.) College has given me the confidence I need to fail.
Jarod Kintz
43.) Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
44.) Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day out.
Robert Collier
45.) I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
Elon Musk
46.) College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.
Chuck Palahniuk
47.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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48.) You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer
49.) For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
50.) If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
51.) You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
Advice
52.) A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
Dan Rather
53.) The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
54.) If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
55.) Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
56.) The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means to an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
57.) Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.
Michelle Obama
Short College Quotes
58.) The expert in anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes
59.) An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
60.) A little progress each day adds up to big results.
Satya Nani
61.) Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. B.B. King
62.) Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
G.K. Nielson
63.) Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest when you haven’t planted.
David Bly
64.) Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.
Usain Bolt
65.) Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
66.) The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
Inspiring College Quotes
67.) Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
68.) Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston
69.) There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
Zig Ziglar
70.) The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke
71.) I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Jim Carrey
72.) Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start.
Martin Luther King
73.) Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous.
Confucius
74.) How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
75.) He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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