Summer is quickly coming to an end. Soon, we will all be back in school, back to the daily grind, back to the everyday hustle and bustle of life between September and June. We will be awoken too early by alarm clocks that are too loud, taking classes that are too long, doing homework that takes too much time and effort. Big changes are happening - and for many, they are very anxiety inducing. We get overwhelmed with all of the stress, so we start to doubt our abilities, not enjoy the experience of learning. The years that we are in school are the most important in our lives, and they are fleeting and should be enjoyed. Here are 20 inspirational quotes that give you confidence in your abilities, remind you to enjoy school, and inspire greatness this year.

1.“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.” - George Elliot

2. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

3. "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another..." - Jane Austen

4. “Fight till the last gasp.” - William Shakespeare

5. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” - Charles Dickens

6. “As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.” - Jules Verne

7. "Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.” - Mary Shelly

8. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” - Dr. Seuss

9. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

10. "I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll

11. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” - Ayn Rand

12. “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

13. "The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” - Frank Herbert

14. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” - Herman Melville

15. “I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.” - Bret Easton Ellis

16. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.” - Richard Yates

17. “The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.” - Martin Amos

18. “Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.” - Philip Roth

19. "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” - Leo Tolstoy

20. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” - J. K. Rowling