Inspiring Academic Success Quotes

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. ~ Robert Sternberg

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ~ Jonathan Winters

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ~ Robin Craig Clark

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. ~ Wendy Kopp

First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. ~ Jim Rohn

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. ~ Nicholas Negroponte

Every success stories will have an inspiring tale of failures. ~ Vishnu Kanchan

Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein. ~ Srinivas Shenoy

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. ~ Molly Corbett Broad

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. ~ Peter Bergen

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. ~ Nel Noddings

Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success. ~ Kanye West

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. ~ Oprah Winfrey

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

The language of academic discourse, which is crucial to academic progress beyond grade 3 is learned by all children through literacy: there are no native speakers of academic language! ~ L. W. Fillmore

Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. ~ John C. Maxwell

Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere. ~ Ashok Kallarakkal

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic? ~ Frances Fox Piven

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong. ~ Caitlin Moran

You don't know the sacrifice behind the success! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective. ~ E. O. Wilson

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. ~ Loretta Young

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. ~ David Eagleman

No success was won without enthusiasm and perseverance. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die! ~ Abhijit Naskar

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world. ~ John Caudwell

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. ~ Hans Arp

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. ~ William McKeen

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. ~ Susan Cain

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ~ Alan Dershowitz

I was always more of an academic than a jock. ~ Edwin Moses

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. ~ Cameron Russell

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool. ~ Kwame Anthony Appiah

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring. ~ Casey Kasem

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. ~ Ken Robinson

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it. ~ Simone Weil

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had. ~ James Alison

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~ Henry Kravis

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

I'm a commercial person, not an academic. ~ Alan Sugar

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. ~ Rod Steiger

We provide premier transcription services for academic students at affordable rates. ~ Jessica Miller

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. ~ Albert Ellis

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. ~ Peter S. Prescott

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic."
- Bonita Avenue, p.49 ~ Peter Buwalda

Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team. ~ Ross Levinsohn

Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success. ~ Sahara Sanders

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. ~ Mark McKinnon

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing. ~ Mallory Ortberg

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. ~ Azar Nafisi

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite. ~ Robert Fanney

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation. ~ Sai Baba

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ~ Paul Giamatti

There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole. ~ Henry Rosovsky

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. ~ Paul Samuelson

There is always a next time ~ Anamika Mishra

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. ~ David Irving

If you won't trust yourself, nobody else will. ~ Anamika Mishra

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that. ~ Reza Aslan

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. ~ William Bernbach

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people. ~ Eric Thomas

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. ~ Michael Fassbender

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. ~ Manuel Puig

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. ~ Ren Ng

Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them. ~ Kevin Whately

Think the highest thought you can think,
Feel into it, then expand it.
Do this every morning. ~ Blythe Ayne

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them. ~ Maajid Nawaz

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. ~ Adrienne Rich

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ~ Dan Farmer

Success is all about believing, always visualizing what you want to do and want to be and act accordingly on it until become it reality. ~ Lord Robin

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ~ Elbert Hubbard

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. ~ Philip Zimbardo

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. ~ Toby Young

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner. ~ Condoleezza Rice

Stop writing caption. Go action! ~ Lenang Manggala

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ~ Peter Straub

It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when usually people give you like this window of success time. ~ Ryan Montgomery

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly. ~ William Golding

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. ~ Rebel Wilson

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. ~ Laurence D. Fink

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic. ~ Carlo Rubbia

If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. ~ Theo Van Gogh

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. ~ Donald Knuth

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. ~ Eddie Huang

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. ~ Anthony Biglan

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. ~ Ahmet Davutoglu

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. ~ Eric Schlosser

Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

To think is not enough, you must think of something. ~ Jules Renard

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. ~ Mindy Kaling

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. ~ Gavin Newsom

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. ~ Walter E. Williams