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 have to think of my future,"
Milo Minderbinder
B
"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."
Billy Pilgrim
G
"The battle is lost if one assumes it is lost."
General Kutuzov
J
"Failure is not defeat unless you accept it as such."
Jean Valjean
R
"What matters is what you do in the moment."
Randle McMurphy
R
"A man needs a cause to believe in, something worth fighting for."
Randle McMurphy
P
"A man only lives when he is striving for a goal."
Pierre Bezukhov
H
"I really should."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm going to apply myself, starting Monday. I really am."
Holden Caulfield
N
"The principal thing is that we should all strive to be better"
Natasha Rostova
N
"People are not born for happiness. People are born for deeds."
Natasha Rostova
P
"The difficulty of the task only increases my desire to undertake it"
Pierre Bezukhov
H
"The thing is, it's really very hard to leave your room unless you're in some kind of good mood."
Holden Caulfield
H
"That's the trouble with me. I can't get interested in things. That's really the trouble."
Holden Caulfield
P
"It is necessary that there should be men such as we are"
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"The good that results from a single effort is immeasurable"
Pierre Bezukhov
Y
"Someone has to do something sometime."
Yossarian
L
"I can do the work"
Lennie Small
P
"Motivation comes from within the soul."
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"We need to be angry."
Professor Faber
C
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Cal Trask
S
"A life without struggle is a life without meaning."
Samuel Hamilton
A
"There's a hunger in men that seems to me to be the strongest force in the world."
Adam Trask
S
"Men do not stir in the morning to excel."
Samuel Hamilton
A
"A man needs a purpose, and if he does not have one, he will invent one."
Adam Trask
G
"Motivation springs from within, not from circumstance"
General Kutuzov
C
"One more run and the world would be yours."
Colonel Cathcart
O
"If you fail we shall perish."
Old Major
Y
"I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them."
Yossarian
T
"I am malicious because I am miserable."
The Creature