Motivation Quotes
When you need a push, these words deliver. The fuel for getting started and keeping going.
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"Motivation is temporary; discipline and purpose are permanent."Sean O'Casey
"Motivation is temporary, but discipline is forever."Douglas Coupland
"Motivation is a conversation you have with yourself."Douglas Coupland
"We're all going to die sometime, so we might as well be productive."Margaret Atwood
"Most people imagine they want things but do not really want them when it comes to a point of hard work."Robertson Davies
"We cannot know what we might accomplish until we try."Joyce Carol Oates
"Innovation requires the courage to fail publicly."Joyce Carol Oates
"Sometimes you do things to make things happen."Douglas Coupland
"Laziness is just the flip side of ambition."Douglas Coupland
"People want to matter, that's the core of it."Douglas Coupland
"Boredom is the biggest killer of human potential."Douglas Coupland
"Motivation comes from within, not from without."Carson McCullers
"Purpose comes from within."Eudora Welty
"The world does not change because you grieve for it."Margaret Atwood
"The grotesque is the only way I can get the attention of people."Flannery O'Connor
"To be indifferent is the only true failure."Robertson Davies
"The man who believes he can and the man who believes he can't are both usually right."Cormac McCarthy
"Motivation is temporary; discipline is what sustains effort when motivation fades."Joyce Carol Oates
"Ambition without ethics is the blueprint for tyranny; channel desire through moral frameworks."Joyce Carol Oates
"Do the best you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are."Harper Lee
"I wanted to give them something to remember that moment in their lives."Harper Lee
"Fate is what happens when you are not paying attention"Robertson Davies
"The only real failure is the refusal to try"Robertson Davies
"Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is permanent."Cormac McCarthy
"We in America are troubled by youth but we got to have it."Carson McCullers
"Motivation rooted in external reward is fragile and temporary."Joyce Carol Oates
"Desire drives human action far more than reason."Joyce Carol Oates
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started doesn't mean we shouldn't try."Harper Lee
"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."Cormac McCarthy
"Motivation fades. Only discipline remains."Cormac McCarthy