Top 707 Motivation Quotes

When momentum runs low, the right words can be the push that gets you moving again. This collection of motivational quotes is built for those moments: short, sharp reminders that action beats hesitation and that starting is half the battle.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
Clarence Budington Kelland
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Ovid
Ovid
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The Art of Peace begins with you...
Morhei Ueshiba
Morhei Ueshiba
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No matter how you feel, get up. dress up and show up.
Regina Brett
Regina Brett
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Bill Stone
Bill Stone
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
Also featured in: life change

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It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Also featured in: mindset wisdom

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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
Jim Valvano
Jim Valvano
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The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
Nido R. Qubein
Nido R. Qubein
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
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Hustle is the most important word - EVER.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk
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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki
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Do it for joy and you can do it forever.
Stephen King
Stephen King
Also featured in: happiness time

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I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss
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Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
S N Goenka
S N Goenka
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.
Mike Krzyzewski
Mike Krzyzewski
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We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.
Mary Martin
Mary Martin
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
Unknown
Unknown
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt
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Vision with action makes a powerful reality.
Ron Kaufman
Ron Kaufman
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Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
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Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Japanese Proverb
Also featured in: adversity time

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STAY FOCUSED
Get It Done
Get It Done
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch
Also featured in: life

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The expert at anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
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When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.
Unknown
Unknown
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Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
Chris Bradford
Chris Bradford
Also featured in: life adversity courage friendship

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If you can't do it, don't do it.
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
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Be focused on process and not outcome.
Sein Klarman
Sein Klarman
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Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo
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Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.
Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer W. Kimball
Also featured in: time

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When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.
Kevin E. Quinones Miller
Kevin E. Quinones Miller
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Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.
David J. Schwartz
David J. Schwartz
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Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Prince
Prince
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To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.
Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Also featured in: adversity wisdom work

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Muller
George Muller
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
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Peace begins when expectation ends.
Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy
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The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.
Tyrese Gibson
Tyrese Gibson
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
Mae West
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
repeated day in and day out.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Also featured in: courage

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Maybe my pain was my motivation.
LeBron James
LeBron James
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In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
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If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.
Cheryl Richardson
Cheryl Richardson
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Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control..
Tim Tadlock
Tim Tadlock
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