Motivation Quotes

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

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"Every human being tends to higher things"
John Keats
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"I am ambitious of doing the world some good"
John Keats
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"I have always thought that the actions of men are best interpreted by their wants."
Charles Dickens
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"The man who despairs has already lost the battle."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The human will is capable of overcoming any obstacle placed before it."
Honoré de Balzac
"Motivation comes from within, not from without."
William Wordsworth
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"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened."
Victor Hugo
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"Motivation is the driving force behind all actions."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Motivation is self-generated."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We are prisoners of our own ambitions."
Mary Shelley
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"The greatest battles are fought in the silence of the human spirit."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Every person is the author of their own tragedy or triumph."
Alexandre Dumas
"Work! Always work!"
Gustave Flaubert
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"Every great achievement was once deemed impossible by those without vision."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Motivation comes not from external reward, but from internal conviction."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Ambition is like the sea wave made by the moon."
John Keats
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"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
John Keats
"To begin, begin."
William Wordsworth
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"Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration from beyond."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"What is fame but a sluggish thing that with the slothful grows"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, the great evil is apathy"
Lord Byron
"The beginning is always today."
Mary Shelley
"The hand is ready to execute the heart's dictates."
Mary Shelley
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"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
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"Beware a heart that is hungry."
Victor Hugo
"Believe in yourself and the world will believe in you."
William Wordsworth
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
William Wordsworth
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Lord Byron
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"Motivation fades, but discipline endures."
Lord Byron