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.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
Joe Hyams
Joe Hyams
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Then come the four OKR "superpowers": focus, align, track, and stretch.
John E. Doerr
John E. Doerr
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It's better to regret trying and failing than to regret not trying at all.
Jaroslaw Wisniewski
Jaroslaw Wisniewski
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Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.
Brad Warner
Brad Warner
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Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
Don Rickles
Don Rickles
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Screw it. Let's do it.
Richard Branson
Richard Branson
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
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Every day is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
Cathy Gutewitz
Cathy Gutewitz
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Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Gray Anderson
Gray Anderson
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Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
B.J. Fogg
B.J. Fogg
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If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
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I would also tell kids to make sure that they love whatever they end up doing in life. To really be good at something and excel you have to love it and have to be dedicated to it. Not every day is great and not every day is easy, but you do it because you love it.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Students want a safe, predictable, and nurturing environment - one that is consistent. Students like well-managed classes because no one yells at them, and learning takes place. Effective teachers spend the first two weeks teaching students to be in control of their own actions in a consistent classroom environment.
Harry K. Wong
Harry K. Wong
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Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
Robert Day Jr
Robert Day Jr
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Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
Betty Eadie
Betty Eadie
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A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.
Jeff Galloway
Jeff Galloway
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Nothing happens until I make it happen.
Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson
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It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz
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A winning effort begins with preparation.
Joe Gibbs
Joe Gibbs
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Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
Unknown
Unknown
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It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi
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Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.
Rita Pierson
Rita Pierson
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I am confident. I never give up.
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
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Life is a cycle of ends and starts.
Mark Webber
Mark Webber
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you up.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet B. Braiker
Harriet B. Braiker
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The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.
Evangeline Lilly
Evangeline Lilly
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Just never give up. Try to believe in yourself and don't let negativity wear you down.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
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Begin with the End in Mind.
L. David Marquet
L. David Marquet
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Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
Lucretius
Lucretius
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Greatness is a journey that begins with the impossible and turns in to the unforgettable.
Miguel Torres
Miguel Torres
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Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.
Unknown
Unknown
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If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto
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Never give up; just absolutely never give up.
Shane Warne
Shane Warne
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
Ray Carver
Ray Carver
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When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
Ian Vardle
Ian Vardle
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We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.
Dustin Poirier
Dustin Poirier
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If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.
John Petrucci
John Petrucci
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Jazz is about freedom within discipline.
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
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Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Douglas S. Reeves
Douglas S. Reeves
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This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Unknown
Unknown
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Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.
Donald Caine
Donald Caine
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Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.
Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev
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Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas
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In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.
Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper
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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli Boukreev
Anatoli Boukreev
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