With finals week quickly approaching, I think I can speak for us all when I say that I am ready for this semester to be over. We’ve known this week would come, but we have dreaded it for so long, and procrastinated studying until the last minute. Although it will be hard, we will get through finals week, together, and hopefully with only a minimal amount of mental breakdowns. However, if you’re finding yourself at an all time low of motivation, here are some quotes to pick you back up and help you push through.

1. “If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard, but if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.” – T. Harv Eker

2. “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John Wooden

3. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” – J. P. Morgan

4. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

6. “This too shall pass.” – Persian Poem

7. “You’ve got what it takes, but it will take everything you’ve got.” – Unknown

8. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins

9. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

10. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus

11. “It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.” – Tony Robbins

12. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” – Zig Ziglar

13. “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” -Napoleon Hill

14. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

15. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” – Unknown

16. “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

17. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

18. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

19. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

20. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison