Motivation Quotes

When you need a push, these words deliver. The fuel for getting started and keeping going.

22152 quotes

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"To accept comfortable ignorance is to betray the human spirit."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Those who believe they can move mountains, do."
Desiderius Erasmus
"A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder, drifting toward oblivion."
Thomas More
"A life well-lived requires the wisdom to know what is worth dying for."
Thomas More
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"Motivation comes from within, not without."
Giordano Bruno
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"The passions are the only orators that always persuade."
Baltasar Gracián
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"The greatest battles are won in the mind before the deed."
Baltasar Gracián
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"In the presence of those who work with passion and integrity, we are reminded of what we ourselves are capable of."
Raphael Sanzio
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"To pursue excellence is to pursue a horizon that recedes as you approach it, forever calling you forward."
Raphael Sanzio
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"Motivation without purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"The greatest evil is to do nothing."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Each person is born with talents meant to serve the common good."
Thomas More
"Motivation comes not from external reward but internal purpose."
Thomas More
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"If we must have enemies, let us strive to be worthy of them."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The greatest commission is the one we give ourselves."
Raphael Sanzio
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"I wish to be useful to the world, to leave it better than I found it."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Progress is not inevitable; it requires the constant effort of good people."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Motivation without direction is merely motion without meaning."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Motivation without discipline is like wind without direction."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"I have worked not for wealth, but for the world's enlightenment."
Johannes Gutenberg
"Motivation without principle is ambition without direction."
Thomas More
"Motivation sustained by principle endures when circumstances change."
Thomas More
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"A man is as good as he wants to be."
Michel de Montaigne
"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Every person has the potential to be extraordinary."
Hypatia
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"All human striving is but a shadow of divine aspiration."
Porphyry
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"The pursuit of goodness is the pursuit of the divine."
Porphyry
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"Motivation comes from understanding one's purpose."
Strabo