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