100+ Inspiring And Intelligent Quotes For College Freshers' Day 2025

100+ Inspiring and Intelligent Quotes by Prominent Figures for College Freshers' Day 2025

Inspiring Quotes For The Success Ahead

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston

“You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for.” — Daniel Milstein

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Kurt Cobain

“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” — Anonymous

“Do something now; your future self will thank you for later.” — Unknown

“Don’t try to be perfect. Just try to be better than you were yesterday.” — Unknown

“Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.” — Unknown

“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” — Unknown

Be Honest To Life

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” — Steve Jobs

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky

Learn And Grow

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.” — Frederick W. Robertson

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education, because that would mean we had stopped growing.” — Julia H. Gulliver

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein

“You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.” — Sonia Sotomayor

“Be willing to embrace wonder, to experience unexpected discovery, and to go in unknown directions.” — Melissa Harris-Perry

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

“Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Hard Work Pays Off

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” — Jillian Michaels

Go Conquer The World

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” — Viola Davis

“Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.” — Unknown

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” — Gabriel García Márquez

Be The Real You

“Don’t try hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try hard to be different... just try hard to be you.” — Zendaya

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pieces of Advice That Will Go A Long Way

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — Lao-Tze

“Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.” — Meryl Streep

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” — Steve Jobs

“Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.” — Melanie White

“Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Do all the other things, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.” — George Saunders

Together We Will Succeed

“You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler

“We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short-circuit the path to success.” — Tory Burch

Live Life To The Fullest
“To those of you who received honours, awards, and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, may one day be president of the United States.” — George W. Bush

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” — Muhammad Ali

“There is a time and a place for everything, and it’s called college.” — Anonymous

Embrace New Beginnings

“Even the greatest were beginners. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.” — Unknown

“Today is not just another day. It's a new opportunity, a new chance, a new beginning.” — Anonymous

“You will never have more energy or enthusiasm, hair, or brain cells than you have today.” — Tom and Ray Magliozzi

“My dear, terrified freshers, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda

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