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 me success is not important, the attempt is what matters."
Hannibal
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Hannibal
"Every moment is an opportunity to become someone greater than yesterday."
Mark Antony
"Motivation springs from a purpose larger than oneself."
Mark Antony
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration from without."
Scipio Africanus
S
"Motivation ignites; perseverance sustains."
Scipio Africanus
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Augustus
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Augustus
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Augustus
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"Motivation comes not from without, but from within."
Tarquin the Proud
C
"I believed that intelligence could rival any military strength."
Cleopatra VII
C
"A woman must be twice as strategic to achieve half the recognition."
Cleopatra VII
C
"The pursuit of excellence is the pursuit of immortality."
Cleopatra VII
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"Those who seek power for its own sake will lose it to those who seek it for purpose."
Pompey
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"Those who seek power for revenge will find only emptiness at its summit."
Pompey
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"Mountains and rivers may divide men, but ambition unites them."
Hannibal
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"The future belongs to those who prepare for it in the present."
Hannibal
"Greatness is not inherited—it is earned through sacrifice and unwavering resolve."
Mark Antony
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"The greatest conspiracy is the one we commit against ourselves through inaction."
Marcus Brutus
M
"The greatest victories are won in the chambers of the heart."
Marcus Brutus
M
"Fate rewards those who act, not those who merely wish."
Marcus Brutus
S
"In every crisis lies the opportunity for the bold and intelligent."
Scipio Africanus
S
"What we plant in thought, we harvest in reality."
Scipio Africanus
S
"What fires the human spirit is not riches, but purpose."
Scipio Africanus
P
"In defeat, we discover our true worth."
Pompey
P
"The enemy of progress is complacency."
Pompey
H
"A mind confined by doubt will never achieve liberation."
Hannibal
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"An army marches on more than bread; it marches on the conviction of its leader."
Hannibal
H
"Motivation of the highest order comes from a cause greater than oneself."
Hannibal
"The past shapes us; the future calls us; but the present defines us."
Mark Antony