Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"Failure is not an option when you're the only one who can save yourself"
Mark Watney
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"There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not because he was busy, but because he was bored."
Milo
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"The only reason to do anything is because it matters to you."
Milo
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"I wanted to matter. To mean something to someone, anyone."
Celia St. James
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"Action is life."
Edmond Dantès
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"Revenge alone is a satisfaction capable of extinguishing the anguish that gnaws at my heart."
The Creature
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"Once you accept defeat, you are already defeated."
Laila
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius
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"You may have lost today, but you have been given tomorrow to try again."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius
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"You could have made a better choice, so make it now."
Marcus Aurelius
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"We are not concerned with the good of others; we are concerned solely with power."
O'Brien
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Pip
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"Whatever our souls are made of, the one thing that kept me going was the thought of her."
Heathcliff
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"This is my substitute for powder and ball"
Captain Ahab
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"Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"
Captain Ahab
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"I felt that I was growing desperate from inaction."
Pip
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"This is my living act, and not a death."
Captain Ahab
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"What I do, I do for her memory and for the living"
Sydney Carton
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"I am better when I am turbulent than when I am stagnant"
Mr. Rochester
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"I have not wanted abilities; but I have wanted an object."
Mr. Darcy
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"Ambition is a comprehensive word"
Pip
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"I had pursued false ideals with a blind determination"
Pip
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"I wish you could develop into anything so fine till you are in earnest."
Miss Havisham
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"Anything you want, you must want with passion."
Estella
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"We must be architects of our own destiny."
Edmond Dantès
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"The hunt reveals what a man truly values."
Starbuck
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"To live without purpose is to already be among the dead."
Captain Ahab
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"The very wits were sharpened by the uncertainty."
Pip
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"Despair is the weapon of the weak."
Abbé Faria