Why not laugh a little before exams?
Exams might be the best way to test your academic knowledge, but they are nerve-wracking. Every student feels tensed and stressed during exams.
While you spend endless nights finishing that daunting syllabus, here are some funny exam quotes for students that will lighten your mood and serve as an extra source of motivation. These quotes are by some of the world-renowned personalities about their take on various aspects of the examination and will surely cheer you up.
Funny Exam Quotes To Help You Feel Less Anxious
Find the perfect list of funny exam quotes for students to read before final exams. Remember, you don't always need extra paper or good handwriting to top the exam. All the best wishes!
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford
“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”
- 'Wealth Of Words', Amit Kalantri
“A thermometer is not the only thing that gets a ‘degree' without having a ‘brain'!”
- Unknown*
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
- Rosa Parks
“During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.”
- Unknown*
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
- David Bly
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Keep calm and carry on procrastinating.”
- Unknown*
“Not everyone who takes extra paper during exams write extra sense.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein
“If you cry on seeing the question paper, it is an insult. If your teacher cries upon seeing your answer paper, it is your achievement.”
- Unknown*
“Everything was just going perfect, then exam comes...”
- Atlas Gondal
"It came during exams when it was completely silent and you heard everyone turn to page 2 while you were still on the first question."
― Fuad Alakbarov
“When you just pass a cutoff: not because you scored good, but just because of the low cutoff”
- Unknown*
“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.”
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Exams are the worst part of school."
- Unknown*
“And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.”
- George Weasley, 'Harry Potter And The Order Of Phoenix', J.K Rowling
“During the engineering exams we only need ink in our pen, nothing else is needed to answer the question paper.”
― Prashant Gupta
Encouraging Exam Quotes For Students
These encouraging exam quotes will give you a silent message of motivation on your exam day.
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.”
- Venus Williams
“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
- Virat Kohli
“Don't let these puny exams get in the way of your big dreams. Save all the stress for bigger things in life.”
- Unknown*
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
- Stephen Hawking
“It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does.”
- 'When Breath Becomes Air', Paul Kalanithi
“Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.”
- Chantal Sutherland
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
- John Maxwell
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
- Malcolm Forbes
“Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”
- William A. Wards
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
- Plato
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
- Jules Renard
“If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.”
- 'Pearls Of Wisdom: Great Mind', Lailah Gifty Akita
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
“The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty”
― Sunday Adelaja
Thought-Provoking Exam Quotes For Students
Don't sacrifice your sleep the night before entering an examination hall. These quotes will give you extra motivation to do well and keep hope!
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
- Christian D. Larson
“The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works for 24 hours, 365 days, right from your birth, until you step into the exam hall.”
- Unknown*
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
- Pele
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
- Robert Collier
“Fear, inherently, is not meant to limit you. Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome.”
- Unknown*
“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do”
- Benjamin Spock
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
- Gail Devers
“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”
- Dwayne Johnson
“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.”
- Israelmore Ayivore
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’.”
- Audrey Hepburn
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
- Jamie Paolinetti
"You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
- Maya Angelou
Unique Exam Quotes For Students
These unique exam quotes will prep you up for an awesome life before and after exams.
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
- General Colin Powell
“When you do exams, you never want to be the one who finishes first, and you never want to be the one who finishes last.”
– Anthony T. Hincks
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
- John Wooden
“Prepare well! Take two inks; you may never know when one pen will stop writing!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“A large number of students don’t read to understand, they read because an examination is around the corner.”
- Michael Bassey Johnson
“The entire life is exam that never ends until the life itself ends.”
― R.H Ork
“Don't rely on getting easy questions. Practice for the hard ones.”
- Anthony T. Hincks
“My school cares more about the uniform than about my education!”
- Unknown*
“I wish I could fit a memory card into my brain for exams.”
- Unknown*
“Well, tests ain't fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage. It's always been that way.”
- ' Paris In April', Allan Dare Pearce
“I agree that exam has its own pressure, but not in my dictionary, in my dictionary no exam no pressure there is only one word and that is happiness.”
― M.Rishad Sakhi
“80% of an exam is always based on one lecture that you missed and one topic that you didn't prepare.”
- Unknown*
“Exams test your memory, life tests your learning; others will test your patience.”
- Fennel Hudson
“If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.”
- Israelmore Ayivor
“Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.”
- Eraldo Banovac
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
- Henry Ford
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