Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"Every person naturally loves what increases their power of existing and acting."
Spinoza
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"Belief shapes reality; change your beliefs to change your world."
Ibn Arabi
"Sloth is nothing but a sluggishness of the soul."
Meister Eckhart
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"Don't go back to sleep. The world is too beautiful for that."
Hafiz
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"The world needs your unique gift. Do not hide it any longer."
Hafiz
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"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference how many people say it cannot be done."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Your struggles are not random acts of bad luck. They are redirecting you toward your true calling."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"All determination is negation; we are what we affirm, not what we deny."
Spinoza
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"The good you do today can be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."
Mother Teresa
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"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you."
Mother Teresa
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"I am but one person, but as one person I can make a difference."
Mother Teresa
"Motivation springs from purpose, not pressure."
Meister Eckhart
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"Motivation inspires action."
Pope Francis
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"Do not look for illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Everything you want, you already are."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Do small things with great love and change will come."
Mother Teresa
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"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."
Mother Teresa
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"We cannot do everything, but we can do something; let us do it with all our heart."
Mother Teresa
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"Motivation rooted in fear fades; motivation rooted in love endures."
Pope Francis
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"Motivation flows from purpose rooted in faith."
Pope John Paul II
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"To reform oneself is to reform the world one deed at a time."
John of the Cross
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"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something."
Billy Graham
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"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
Hafiz
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"We cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good we can do."
Mother Teresa
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"Every day is a new opportunity to make a difference in someone's life."
Mother Teresa
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from beyond."
Pope Francis
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"Motivation is external; inspiration is internal awakening."
Pope Francis
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"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."
Dalai Lama (14th)
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"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility."
Dalai Lama (14th)
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"Even if you are not sure about the afterlife, start acting as if you will live for hundreds of years."
Dalai Lama (14th)