Motivation Quotes

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

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"The masses are always attracted by either the prospect of gain or the fear of loss."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"Men are moved more by self-interest than by appeals to their better nature."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"In every human heart burns a desire to create and to be remembered."
Torquato Tasso
"Motivation waxes when we remember why we began."
Giovanni Boccaccio
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"Motivation springs from purpose and meaning."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"Desire is the engine of all human action."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"Motivation springs not from external circumstance, but from internal conviction."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"Motivation without ethics is merely the energy of a runaway horse."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
Alexandre Herculano
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Alexandre Herculano
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"Anything undertaken with cheerfulness will be done well and speedily."
Petrarch
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"The living owe it to themselves to do the best things possible when they are in the world."
Petrarch
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"The future depends upon what we do in the present."
Petrarch
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"Não é suficiente ter esperança; é preciso agir com determinação."
Ramalho Ortigão
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"A motivação vem de dentro; ninguém pode dá-la, apenas você pode encontrá-la."
Camilo Castelo Branco
"Motivation fades like flowers; discipline remains like stone."
Francesco Petrarca
"Motivation fades like morning mist; inspiration endures like stone."
Torquato Tasso
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"Men are moved more by fear of loss than by hope of gain."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"The greatest battles are fought within the fortress of the self."
Torquato Tasso
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"A motivação é o combustível da ação."
Almeida Garrett
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"A motivação vem da paixão interior."
Almeida Garrett
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"The disease of apathy is more contagious than any plague."
Alexandre Herculano
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"Motivation is temporary; discipline is eternal."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"Motivation fades, but character endures."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"Motivation is the spark; discipline is the fire that sustains."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"Motivation without direction is a ship in a hurricane."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
Petrarch
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"Motivation is temporary; only purpose sustains the human spirit through trials."
Ramalho Ortigão
"Motivation is the spark; perseverance is the flame that sustains the fire."
Torquato Tasso
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"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Niccolò Machiavelli