Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"Motivation comes from within, never from outside."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Our potential is limitless when we believe."
Pearl S. Buck
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"People need responsibility. They need to know they matter."
John Steinbeck
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"A man may have tremendous potential but potential is useless without action."
John Steinbeck
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"A man without ambition is like a ship without a rudder."
John Steinbeck
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"To be alive is to be always trying."
William Faulkner
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"Motivation comes from within, not without."
William Faulkner
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"The sun comes up tomorrow, and we must be ready for it."
Langston Hughes
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"The most beautiful people are those with a purpose."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I knew that I had the capacity to accomplish remarkable things."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The most important thing is to start."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"We made the world we're living in and we have to make it over."
James Baldwin
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"I think I've always been driven—I'm a relentless person, I think."
James Baldwin
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"The only reason you are here is because you do not know what else to do."
James Baldwin
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"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The greatest discovery of any generation is that an individual can alter the course of their destiny."
Pearl S. Buck
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"In every American there is an air of friction or annoyance, as if things as they are were alien to him, wrong, and should be altered."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it."
Sinclair Lewis
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"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here is ever so alive."
John Steinbeck
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"The responsibility is upon us for our acts and for our daily thoughts."
John Steinbeck
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"I cannot think of any good reason why anyone should become a writer unless they are driven by passion."
John Steinbeck
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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."
Ernest Hemingway
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"You beat me all those ways. That's true. But afterwards I am going to do well."
Ernest Hemingway
"All ambition is built on the discontent with present conditions."
Theodore Dreiser
"Motivation comes from within."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Enthusiasm is intoxication with a purpose."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Always be kind to your haters. They are the ones who make you work harder."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Pearl S. Buck
"I want to live and work, but I am afraid of ennui."
Willa Cather
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"If you have any young friends who aspire to become authors, the best advice you can give them is to kill themselves."
Sinclair Lewis