For many college students, we are heading towards our very last week of classes for spring semester and then enduring the dreaded finals week. It's a tough time for basically everyone, so here are some inspirational quotes to hopefully brighten up your week:

1. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie

2. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King Jr.

3. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." -Robert H. Schuller

4. "Many of life's failure are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison

5. "And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." -Haruki Murakami

6. "No one is here to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That's why I'm here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself." -Unknown

7. "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." -Earl Nightingale

8. "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you. They are supposed to help you discover who you are." -Bernice Johnson Reagan

9. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices- today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but to embrace it" -Kevyn Aucoin

10. "You know more than you think. Trust yourself." -Dr. Benjamin McLane Spock

11. "Don't worry about failures. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." -Jack Canfield

12. "All great changes are preceded by chaos." -Deepak Chopra

13. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau

14. "Feel the fear and do it anyway." -Susan Jeffers

15. "Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us." -Nicole Reed