Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"We carry the power to reshape our world through conscious action."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Motivation is temporary; discipline is permanent."
Amy Lowell
"The best motivation comes not from external reward, but from internal purpose."
Fannie Hurst
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"Just to come to New York is enough."
O. Henry
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from the world around us."
Kate Chopin
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"Duty and desire need not always be enemies; sometimes they walk hand in hand."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Women's ambition is not less noble than men's; it is merely expressed differently."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"It is not enough to survive. One must be worthy of survival."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The only true failure is not to try."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Motivation arises from meaning, not from force."
Fannie Hurst
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Amy Lowell
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"Motivation is temporary; purpose is eternal."
Amy Lowell
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"Every man is a failure to himself until he does something useful."
O. Henry
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"Motivation comes not from others, but from within yourself."
O. Henry
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"Hunger is the handmaid of genius."
Jack London
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"The greatest victories are won in silence, without witness or applause."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The most remarkable fact is that the average human being looks up and dreams but does not work to attain those dreams."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The only real failure is the failure to try."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Motivation comes from within; it cannot be given, only discovered."
Kate Chopin
"We must dare to be different to make a difference."
Fannie Hurst
"We are capable of far more than we believe."
Fannie Hurst
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"To write is to fight."
Upton Sinclair
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"I have lived my life in service of others."
Upton Sinclair
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"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
O. Henry
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"Every person has the capacity to change their destiny."
O. Henry
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"A person without ambition is like a ship without a rudder."
O. Henry
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"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill one's heart."
Jack London
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"The motivation of man is his desire for meaning."
Jack London
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"What appears as failure is often just redirection."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Motivation is sparked by meaning, not by mere reward."
Mary Wilkins Freeman