Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"The power of habit is greater than the power of will."
Xenophon
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"A promise to oneself is the most important promise of all."
Xenophon
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"Just as it is better to light a lamp than curse the darkness, it is better to take action to change things than to complain about them."
Thucydides
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"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Herodotus
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Herodotus
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"The desire to be remembered is the desire to have mattered."
Sappho
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"Emotions are the driving force of human motivation."
Hippocrates
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"Positive thoughts are as essential as positive actions."
Hippocrates
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"To motivate others, first show them what is possible through your own example."
Pindar
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"The motivated person sees obstacles as opportunities wrapped in disguise."
Pindar
A
"Motivation comes from within."
Anaxagoras
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"Motivation arises from purpose."
Anaxagoras
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"The gods help those who help themselves, but only after effort."
Aesop
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"The sweetest revenge is becoming better than those who wronged you."
Aesop
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"The warrior's greatest victory is the conquest of his own doubt."
Pindar
S
"Motivation comes not from external reward, but internal alignment"
Sappho
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"Motivation grows from the recognition that knowledge brings freedom."
Anaximenes
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"True motivation comes not from external reward but from internal alignment with purpose."
Anaximenes
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"The ambitious man who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat its errors."
Herodotus
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"Motivation arises from understanding the true value of one's endeavors."
Xenophanes
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"Motivation flows from understanding, not from empty exhortation."
Pindar
A
"The bird does not sing because it must be heard, but because it must sing."
Aesop
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"The future belongs not to those who predict it, but to those who create it."
Aesop
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"Motivation comes from within."
Anaximander
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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Aristophanes
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"Motivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going."
Aristophanes
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Euripides
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"I would not be intimidated by another's success."
Euripides
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"The sweetest victory is one achieved with honor intact."
Xenophanes
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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."
Sophocles