Motivation Quotes
When you need a push, these words deliver. The fuel for getting started and keeping going.
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"Motivation comes from within, never from outside."Pearl S. Buck
"Our potential is limitless when we believe."Pearl S. Buck
"People need responsibility. They need to know they matter."John Steinbeck
"A man may have tremendous potential but potential is useless without action."John Steinbeck
"A man without ambition is like a ship without a rudder."John Steinbeck
"To be alive is to be always trying."William Faulkner
"Motivation comes from within, not without."William Faulkner
"The sun comes up tomorrow, and we must be ready for it."Langston Hughes
"The most beautiful people are those with a purpose."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I knew that I had the capacity to accomplish remarkable things."Zora Neale Hurston
"The most important thing is to start."Zora Neale Hurston
"We made the world we're living in and we have to make it over."James Baldwin
"I think I've always been driven—I'm a relentless person, I think."James Baldwin
"The only reason you are here is because you do not know what else to do."James Baldwin
"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."Pearl S. Buck
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that an individual can alter the course of their destiny."Pearl S. Buck
"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
"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it."Sinclair Lewis
"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
"The responsibility is upon us for our acts and for our daily thoughts."John Steinbeck
"I cannot think of any good reason why anyone should become a writer unless they are driven by passion."John Steinbeck
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."Ernest Hemingway
"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
"Enthusiasm is intoxication with a purpose."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Always be kind to your haters. They are the ones who make you work harder."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become authors, the best advice you can give them is to kill themselves."Sinclair Lewis