If you're a college student, October is the second worst month of the fall semester. (Final's week during December takes the cake.) Midterms are the worst thing to happen to us right before fall break...on top of the work our professors give us DURING our break. Since this dreaded week is right around the corner, here are 12 quotes that you need to hear to get through the rest of midterm week.
1. "Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski
2. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
3. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." –Mark Twain
4. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." –Aristotle
5. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." –Confucius
6. "The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi
7. "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
8. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison
9. "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
10. "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson
11. "Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
12. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott