Let’s face it, you don’t actually crack down on studying until midterms come around and you are slammed with more exams and papers than you can count. So then you are studying more than you are sleeping and you are drinking more coffee and red bull than water. It is a time of feeling like crap and looking like crap and it doesn’t seem like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Well, trust me, friends, there is, but it takes an awful lot of work to get there.

Here I have compiled a few different quotes that are meant to motivate and inspire, and hopefully, there is one in here that you resonate with and helps you through this incredibly difficult time in college.

1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”- Walt Disney

2. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard…that’s what makes it great.”- A League of Their Own

3. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”- Oprah Winfrey

4. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” –William Arthur Ward

5. “Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.”-Salvador Dali

6. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are still thinking about yesterday.”- Charles F. Kettering

7. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”-Unknown

8. “Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”-Woody Allen

9. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow your progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”-Tony Robbins

10. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” –Nelson Mandela

11. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” –Thomas Edison

12. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway”-Earl Nightingale

13. “You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way”-Jennifer J. Freeman

14. “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice”-Brian Herbert

15. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your life.”-Vince Lombardi

16. “Meredith Grey didn’t become a surgeon and marry Dr. McDreamy by not studying”-Unknown

There you have it, folks. Here are some of my favorite motivational quotes. I truly hope at least one of them sparked something inside of you to help you through the headaches and all-nighters. Good luck out there and may the curve be ever in your favor.