Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey. For all the highs and lows, for all the joys and sorrows, for everything you put in and everything you get out, it’s just you. It can be hard to find people who understand what you’re going through, what it’s like to risk everything on an idea. But that’s okay – because entrepreneur quotes exist! This compilation of student quotes is a great reminder that we are not alone in our journey. So whether you’re feeling down or inspired, read on for some words of wisdom from your fellow entrepreneurs.

1. Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that’s going to expand. — Steven Pinker
2. The secret of success in education is respecting the students. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it. — Valentino Garavani
4. Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with ‘religious literacy training. — Rush Limbaugh
5. My own students say they don’t trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that? — Martha Nussbaum
6. Patience of a teacher breaks when he throws chalk on student. — Pawan Prakash Tirkey
7. I’m a very bad student, but a great learner. — Tim Allen
8. There’s nothing creepier to me than a student who hangs out with the teachers. — Shane Dawson
9. How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared? — Walter Gropius
10. All that is necessary for a student is access to a library. — Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790
11. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching — a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
12. My own students say they don’t trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that? — Martha Nussbaum
13. Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are. — Parker J. Palmer
14. If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. — Noam Chomsky
15. A teacher isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
16. The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. — Wendy Kopp
17. What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
18. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid
19. Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they’ve thrown away real riches: patience, self–sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. — Rumi
20. We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman
21. In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney
22. Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. — Robert Reich
23. An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students. — Tanya R. Liverman, Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education
24. My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. — Yaya DaCosta
25. I can always see what I’ve done wrong. I’m always learning. I’m the perennial student. — Pat Oliphant
26. The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. — P. J. O’Rourke
27. In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors. — Tina Fey
28. Ca student is composition of a Compassionate, Cheerful, and Cool aspirant. I will be a Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
29. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. — H.L. Mencken
30. He who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students. — Rabindranath Tagore
31. A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces. — Richard Branson
32. What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
33. In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney
34. Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. — Paul W. Silver, The Dangerous Dream
35. A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning. — Sandra M. Michelle, No Free Lunch: Paying the Price to Follow Jesus
36. One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity. — Soledad O
37. The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. — Suzanne Fields
38. I used to be one of those students who needed to see something bigger, and God brought people into my life who gave me a bigger vision than the circumstances that surrounded me. — Tony Evans
39. I’m gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student.I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE. — Peter Rogers
40. He was both her hero and enemy. She was his best student and biggest regret. — R E Mullins
41. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. — Michael Joseph Brown
42. I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school. — Sara Canning
43. Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside. — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
44. Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. — Solomon Ortiz
45. We’re trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. — Steve Miller
46. When you’re a student of poetry, you’re lucky if you don’t realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop. — Tony Hoagland, Ploughshares
47. American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France. — Suzanne Fields
48. I like to tell students, ‘I didn’t burst on to the literary scene.’ I’m never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work. — Markus Zusak
49. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. — Ray Bradbury
50. Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. — Shakuntala Devi