They call it Fall Semester for a reason, the initial decent back into class is more like falling rapidly face-first toward concrete. Here are some quotes to help you prepare for the grind. Go show this semester who is boss.
On Hard Work:
"In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness." - Jemima Khan
"Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream." - Marlon Wayans
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi
On Goal Setting:
"The starting point of all achievement is desire." - Napoleon Hill
"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself." - Bo Bennett
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
On Pushing Forward When Things Feel Shitty:
"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.” - Tom Robbins
“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.” - Criss Jami
On the Payoff:
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.” - Margaret Thatcher
