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 and goes; commitment remains."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"To be yourself in a world that wants you different is a true victory."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Motivation without self-knowledge is merely directed chaos."
Knut Hamsun
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"Each sunrise brings the opportunity to rewrite our lives; waste no moment in regret."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The noblest revenge is to live well and let the past fade into obscurity."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The power to change the world begins with changing yourself."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Motivation comes from within, not without."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Our tasks in life are not to succeed but to try."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Motivation comes from purpose."
Selma Lagerlöf
"The future belongs to those who believe in it."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Progress requires both vision and action."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
August Strindberg
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
August Strindberg
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"Motivation without action is mere fantasy."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Motivation is the spark; discipline is the fire."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Motivation fades; purpose endures."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Motivation is temporary; identity is eternal."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Motivation comes from within, not from without."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The pursuit of excellence is never finished"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"What our age lacks is not reflection but passion."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Wherever there is comfort, there is also complacency and the death of the spirit."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"I cannot die without leaving a trace of my own existence."
August Strindberg
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"Progress is made by the unreasonable man who demands the impossible."
August Strindberg
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"A life lived in service to others is a life truly well-lived."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"The world is built by those who refuse to accept that something is impossible."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Motivation fades, but conviction remains."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Boris Pasternak
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"Motivation fades, but discipline remains."
Boris Pasternak
"We are most truly alive when serving something greater than ourselves."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson