As the semester marches on we approach that awkward time in the semester when you've been in class long enough that you're comfortable with it, but before finals so you're also not panicked about saving any grades. We've hit a point where motivation is hard to come by, and it's even worse if you have senioritis. Unfortunately, just because all we want to do is binge watch Netflix right now does not mean that homework doesn't demand our attention.
Everyone feels like giving up sometimes, let's be honest. Deciding to try again is half the battle. If you're having trouble keeping up the hard work, check out these motivational quotes.
1. "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
2. "Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
3. "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
4. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
5. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
6. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
8. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
9. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
10. "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. " - W. Clement Stone
11. "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert H. Schuller
12. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. " - Maya Angelou
13. "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy
14. "Either I will find a way, or I will make one." - Philip Sidney
15. "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." - Gordon B. Hinckley
16. "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
17. "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment." - Own it. Oprah Winfrey
18. "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
19. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
20." If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
21. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
22. "Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." - Victor Kiam
23. "I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often." - Brian Tracy
24. "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." Kyle Chandler
25. "There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves." - Richard Rorty
26. "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson
27. "How do you know you're going to do something, until you do it?" - J. D. Salinger
There are many reasons we might lose motivation. Maybe we've hit a roadblock, maybe it seems that our efforts aren't ever going to meet with success, and maybe we've become our own worst enemy. Keep in mind that JK Rowling was living on state's benefits before she published Harry Potter. Keep trying, because every extraordinary person is just someone who decided to try one more time.
