With the end of the semester and finals week upon us, it can be seemingly impossible to find the motivation to study, even on the off-chance that you can find a spot to study in the packed library or Starbucks on campus.

Surviving finals is not for the weak hearted, so take a look at the advice of those wiser and more successful, they must have done something right, after all.

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1. "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein

2. "Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here." -Donald Trump

3. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King

4. "The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra

5. 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

6. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

8. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

9. “Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.” – Ronnie Coleman

10. “Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hanse

11. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso

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

13. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

14.“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

15. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily." – Zig Ziglar

And if none of that worked, maybe this will motivate you: