Top 100 Good Student Quotes
#1. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo
#3. I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.
Tony Hawk
#4. I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.
Demetri Martin
#5. There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others
Phil Heath
#6. I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.
Bruno Tonioli
#7. When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.
Thomas McDonell
#8. In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
Ray Romano
#9. If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
Eileen Myles
#10. I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
Evangeline Lilly
#11. Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.
Vonda Shepard
#12. I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.
Tyra Banks
#13. I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'
Xavier Becerra
#14. I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
Rosemary Mahoney
#15. I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA ... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis ... as work-study.
Laura Osnes
#17. I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
Kevin Powers
#18. School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
India De Beaufort
#19. Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
Dannika Dark
#20. I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
Michael Moore
#21. I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
Lapo Elkann
#22. A good student learns from his teacher.
A great student learns to teach himself.
A.P. Sweet
#23. I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
Steven Spielberg
#24. I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers
#25. If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
Jack Kirby
#27. I wasn't a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.
Marcelo Garcia
#28. I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.
Lev Grossman
#29. When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
Halsey
#30. I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco
#31. I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen Hawking
#32. When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.
William Westney
#33. I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
Alan Shepard
#34. I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.
Cristin Milioti
#35. Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
#36. I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims ... Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was.
James Patterson
#37. I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.
Shelley Hennig
#38. I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.
Jose Andres
#39. It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.
Yip Man
#40. I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
Tyler Hilton
#41. I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.
Josie Loren
#42. If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
Malcolm Gladwell
#43. You have to be a good student before you can be a good teacher.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.
Mila Kunis
#45. I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.
Tamsin Egerton
#46. Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
Peter Schjeldahl
#47. I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
Dale T. Mortensen
#48. One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.
Shiv Khera
#49. I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
Jack Steinberger
#50. I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
Tommy Hilfiger
#52. I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.
Robert Redford
#53. I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
Zach Condon
#54. The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling.
Lois Lowry
#55. One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read, its going to be hard to realize dreams; its going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to listen to her.
George W. Bush
#56. I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.
Dreezy
#57. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Shimon Peres
#58. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.
Andrea Bocelli
#59. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Marva Collins
#60. I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
James Patterson
#61. I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.
Carol Burnett
#62. When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.
Jeff Raz
#63. I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#64. I was a good student, but I didn't like school.
Ashley Benson
#65. I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.
Clara Mamet
#66. I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.
Emmylou Harris
#67. I was a good student. I was lame. I was into school and didn't really go out much, so I guess I wasn't the coolest person on the planet.
Rita Volk
#68. When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.
Robert Redford
#69. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.
Fiore Dei Liberi
#70. I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.
Sarah Dessen
#71. I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.
Jeff Kendrick
#72. I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student ... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
Hank Azaria
#73. Who is a student?
One who is taught.
Who is a good student?
One who also teaches himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
Malcolm Gladwell
#76. Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.
Geoffrey Canada
#78. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#79. I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
Sara Canning
#80. Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman
#81. I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.
Lucy Hale
#82. I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching ... I am a conundrum!
Holly Golightly
#83. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.
Elliot Mabeuse
#84. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. I'm not terribly athletic. And ... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.
Lester Holt
#86. I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
Northrop Frye
#87. It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.
Russell Kirk
#88. Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.
Thomas Christopher Greene
#89. A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
Bill Parcells
#90. I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford
#91. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
Pope Francis
#92. I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.
Ranbir Kapoor
#93. By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Mark Pocan
#94. Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
Robert Henri
#95. Good students pay attention to their teachers;
great students teach themselves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#96. As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'
Pema Chodron
#97. My nephew. He was a law student. A good Christian. He never kept girlfriends. He never missed a ceremonial meal.
S.A. David
#98. When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
Saul David
#99. At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
Amar Bose
#100. The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma
