Top 55 Good Student Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Student Quotes from famous people such as Enes Kanter, Jack Steinberger, James Patterson, Rajiv Menon, Renee Fleming, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I was a really good student, first, second grade, third

I was a really good student, first, second grade, third grade, and then fourth grade a little bit. And then I don’t know what happened. I became a very terrible student. I wish I took it more serious.
Enes Kanter
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
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
I used to be a reasonably good student.
Rajiv Menon
I was always a very good student.
Renee Fleming
I was a good little boy and a good student. I’ve never been arrested.
Michael Moore
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
I was a good student and stuff like that.
Patrick Mahomes
I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
Tommy Hilfiger
I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.
Jesse White
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
I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A’s.
Lucy Hale
I was never a good student. But I wrote acting notes every day and prepared for my next shoots diligently.
Son Ye-jin
You know when I was a high school student I wasn’t a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.
Takashi Miike
I’ve always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn’t until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.
Evan Sharp
I became a really good student at Bard and I fell in love with learning.
Pauline Chalamet
I never insisted that I was a good student.
Roman Abramovich
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
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
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
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen Hawking
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
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
I actually was a good student, but I never applied myself ’cause I was always like, ‘I don’t love doing this.’ I wasn’t passionate about school. I always got a B just to pass. But what’s crazy is I got a 29 on my ACT test without even studying. So I was always, like, just smart – but never really cared.
Jake Paul
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
You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I’d be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don’t get it.
Bryson Tiller
I was a very good student. But I didn’t have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can’t an engineering student learn physics?
Shiv Nadar
I wasn’t a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn’t really interest me.
Eddie Trunk
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
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
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
It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a

It’s good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.
Grigor Dimitrov
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
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 who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.
Phil Heath
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
Rosemary Mahoney
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
Jay-Z
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
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
I was a good student – a geek, really – editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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
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
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
In 1981, when I passed out of Class 12, you could either become a doctor or an engineer. If you did not take up Science in Class 12, you were not considered a good student. The Arts were a no-no.
Anubhav Sinha
I was a good student, but I didn’t like school.
Ashley Benson
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
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
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
Sara Canning
Certainly, grades only matter so much when you’re in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
Damien Chazelle
Some people just seem like they are up to no good. 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
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
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
All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn’t very academic, and I certainly wasn’t a very good student.
Chrissie Hynde
I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn’t a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
Pedro Pascal
I’m a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.
Kristaps Porzingis
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