The scholarship search and application procedure may be fruitless because of emotional ups and downs. Here are a few inspiration and motivation to encourage you to start your journey.

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

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” -Richard Feynmann

“Philosophy is garbage. But the history of garbage is scholarship.” – Burton Dreben

“The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.” – Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

“All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.” – A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Most archivists don’t like surprises. That’s why we work in the past.” – Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.”- Lailah Gifty Akita

“Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.” – Richard Levins

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person’s power.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

“I paid my own education by scholarship until I left university.” – Ellen Wilkinson

“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.” – James Russell Lowell

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.” – Nnamdi Azikiwe

“We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.” – Malcolm Wallop