Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"I must do something of an active nature."
Pip
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"The world rewards those who act with purpose."
Monte Cristo
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"We are defined not by our circumstances but our choices."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The thing that moved my very soul to that mad intensity is as much a mystery to me as it is to you."
Captain Ahab
E
"I am not mad; I am merely contemplating my revenge"
Edmond Dantès
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"Motivation comes from within, not from external rewards."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Man can endure anything if he has something to live for"
Levin
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"I must do something or I shall wear my life away"
Pip
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"Action speaks louder than words."
Sancho Panza
L
"Motivation comes from purpose, not desire."
Levin
D
"A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder, adrift on endless seas."
Don Quixote
D
"Great deeds require great sacrifice."
Don Quixote
D
"Fortune helps the bold and brave, but abandons the fearful and craven."
Don Quixote
D
"The proof of a good intention lies in the act."
Don Quixote
E
"The greatest pleasure in life is to accomplish what people think you cannot do."
Edmond Dantès
L
"What matters is not what we do, but why we do it"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Motivation comes from within the heart."
Sancho Panza
D
"To be or not to be is not the question; to act or not to act is."
Don Quixote
R
"What is to be done?"
Raskolnikov
M
"I have learned that destiny is not written; it is chosen."
Monte Cristo
D
"The pursuit of an impossible dream often achieves more than the chase of possible goals."
Don Quixote
L
"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I wanted to help all mankind... but I could not even help one person"
Raskolnikov
R
"I sought to be a benefactor, but I became a murderer"
Raskolnikov
R
"I wanted to help my mother, and the old money-lender was always in the way."
Raskolnikov
E
"Mediocrity is the worst curse of humanity."
Emma Bovary
D
"The more reasonable you are, the less chance of anything great happening to you."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"People are always unhappy when they feel they can improve their situation."
Natasha Rostova
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"Ambition is a human quality."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"A life without purpose is a life half-lived."
Jean Valjean