Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Believe in yourself or no one else will."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Dare to do things that make you uncomfortable."
Emily Dickinson
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"A man of genius, however, not understood by his contemporaries, carries his conviction within himself."
Washington Irving
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"A man who is active and moving will always find more to do than one who is idle."
Washington Irving
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
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"Every man has his own Moby Dick—the white whale of his obsession."
Herman Melville
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"The greatest thing we can do is to encourage one another to be great."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A life of purpose beats a life of mere existence."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The world belongs to the energetic."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you would accomplish anything."
Emily Dickinson
"Motivation comes from within."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"We must choose love over fear every day."
François Mauriac
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"We must never underestimate the power of a single life."
François Mauriac
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"Every person has infinite potential within them."
François Mauriac
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started; pick one foot, plant it in front of you."
Mark Twain
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"Every individual has a special gift that the world needs."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Every moment is an opportunity to become who we wish to be."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"There is no profit in the life of a man when he abandons his ideals."
Herman Melville
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"Ideals are not luxuries; they are necessities."
Herman Melville
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"The little dissatisfactions which men feel are the springs of all progress."
Anatole France
"Motivation is simply terror with better marketing."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Motivation that comes from fear is ultimately hollow."
François Mauriac
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
Mark Twain
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
Mark Twain
"The way to begin reading a book is to begin it."
Mark Twain
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"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's creation for."
Herman Melville
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"Temptation, it has been said, can resist everything except publicity."
Nathaniel Hawthorne