Motivation Quotes

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

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"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The very worst thing one can do is not to try, not to test themselves."
Anton Chekhov
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"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin."
Ivan Turgenev
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"To wish is to believe that something will happen without doing anything about it."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The world is evil, but you must not cease to do good."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
"Motivation is internal; inspiration is external."
Samuel Beckett
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"Winning is a state of mind, not of fortune."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Motivation is temporary; discipline is permanent."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I would like to do for humans what Copernicus did for the universe."
James Joyce
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"The pursuit of perfection often leads to the loss of the good."
Anton Chekhov
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"The world does not reward the cynical; it ignores them."
Anton Chekhov
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not merely to react."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Motivation comes from within, not from without."
Thomas Hardy
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
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"Motivation comes from understanding your deepest purpose."
James Joyce
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"The secret of life consists not in fighting evil but in producing good."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Every moment is a choice between love and fear."
Leo Tolstoy
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"It is a noble aim to endeavor to be virtuous."
Anne Brontë
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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
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"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
Emily Brontë
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not merely to react."
George Bernard Shaw
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for existing. Satisfaction is death."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday. I am the joint force of everybody that came before me."
James Joyce
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"We must believe in ourselves before others will believe in us."
Anne Brontë
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"Dedication to a worthy cause transforms ordinary lives into extraordinary ones."
Anne Brontë
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"Ambition without compassion leaves only ashes and regrets."
Thomas Hardy
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"Only in the agitated mind of discontent can a noble purpose germinate."
George Eliot