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​Motivational Quotes to Get You Through This Semester

College is hard. Some weeks are harder than others. In order to get yourself up, here are some quotes to get you through the week.

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​Motivational Quotes to Get You Through This Semester
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Do you ever have the weeks where you have so much you don't know where to start... but you also don't want to start? Sometimes school can get the best of us, but you have come to the right place. Take a deep breath, treat yourself and follow these quotes. These are inside quotes from some of the most successful people in history. Just remember, you got this!

  • ­­“Believe in yourself and be prepared to work hard.” – Stella McCartney
  • “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” –Karim Seddike
  • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
  • "Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “Meredith Grey didn’t become a surgeon and get to marry McDreamy by not studying.” – Anonymous
  • “Try to live everyday like Elle Woods after Warner told her she wasn’t smart enough for law school.” – Anonymous
  • “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” –Art Williams
  • “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett
  • “Study like Granger.” – Anonymous
  • “They said she couldn’t so she did.” –Anonymous
  • “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Anonymous
  • “Successful people never worry about what others are doing.” – Anonymous
  • “Be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.” – Anonymous
  • “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
  • “Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous
  • “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
  • “But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength.” – 2 Timothy 4:17
  • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday.” – Charles F Kettering
  • “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”– Winston Churchill
  • “ The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “What a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou
  • “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  • “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
  • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”– Helen Keller
  • “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
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