I love quotes. In fact, I used to keep a diary filled with quotes, one dedicated to each day. By definition, a quote is simply a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts, but they can be so much more than that. Whether motivational, funny, historically significant, or simply inspirational, some quotes are tidbits of extremely intelligent and amazing people that we can use as a mirror to delve into ourselves and ponder our life choices and futures.

Here are just a handful of my favorites. Hopefully one or more of them can be an inspiration to help you start this semester off right!

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

So go on, get out there, show them your stuff, and make this an amazing semester and start off 2016 right! Last year or even just last semester may have been rough, but 2016 is a blank slate: take advantage of it! Even if 2015 was actually a great year for you, that doesn’t stop you from trying to make 2016 even better!