Motivation Quotes

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

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"You can't be a really happy person if you have never believed in anything worth suffering for."
Christopher Hitchens
"The only real failure is not trying."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Motivation is what starts you; discipline is what sustains you."
Katie Couric
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"Motivation is temporary; purpose is permanent."
James Foley
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"In life, you don't have to be the best to succeed, you just have to believe you are."
Tom Wolfe
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"Motivation is the difference between those who dream and those who do."
Tom Wolfe
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"The best stories are the ones that matter most."
Marie Colvin
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"I've never met a story I didn't want to tell."
Marie Colvin
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"I think the most dangerous thing is apathy."
Marie Colvin
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"The stories that matter most are the ones that cost you something."
Marie Colvin
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"People in power count on public apathy to maintain their authority."
Seymour Hersh
"It is better to do something than live a life of quietude."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I believe that the struggle against evil is the engine of all human progress."
Hunter S. Thompson
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Walter Matthau
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Tom Wolfe
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"The only real failure is the failure to try."
Tom Wolfe
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"Your work is a legacy. Make it count. Make it matter."
James Foley
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"The struggle for truth is not new, but it's increasingly urgent."
James Foley
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"Passion is what gets you through the hard times."
Larry King
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"Motivation comes from within."
Larry King
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"Motivation comes from purpose."
Rachel Maddow
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"Motivation sustains effort."
Rachel Maddow
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"The greatest barrier to progress is the tyranny of the status quo."
Fareed Zakaria
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"The future is written by those who show up."
Fareed Zakaria
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Walter Matthau
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Walter Matthau
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Walter Matthau
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"I would rather die knowing I tried to make a difference than live comfortably knowing I didn't."
Marie Colvin
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"I have seen what happens when the world forgets about suffering. We cannot let that happen."
Marie Colvin
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"I report not to make myself famous, but to make injustice impossible to ignore."
Marie Colvin