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.

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino
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Don't try to be original, just try to be good.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
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Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
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Dreams do come true for those who never give up.
Ericha Oda
Ericha Oda
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer J. Adler
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Stay focused on the mission.
Naveen Jain
Naveen Jain
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If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.
Chloe Thurlow
Chloe Thurlow
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God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Karen Potter
Karen Potter
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
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I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
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The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris
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When you focus on the good, the good gets better.
Abraham Hicks
Abraham Hicks
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Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult.
TobyMac
TobyMac
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.
Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann
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Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
Anil Dash
Anil Dash
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Gary Player
Gary Player
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Attention, which amplifies the information we focus on. Active engagement, an algorithm also called "curiosity" which encourages our brain to ceaselessly test new hypotheses. Error feedback, which compares our predictions with reality and corrects our models of the world. Consolidation, which renders what we have learned fully
automated and involves sleep as a key component.
automated and involves sleep as a key component.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
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Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg
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The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.
Victor Sperandeo
Victor Sperandeo
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Channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
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It's only too late if you don't start now.
Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
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The only way you improve is to try new things.
Charles Koch
Charles Koch
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It's never too late to start the day over.
Michael Franti
Michael Franti
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
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Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney
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Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
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Thoughts lead on to purpose. purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards
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Do what you like and do it honestly.
Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge
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No research without action, no action without research.
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin
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If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf
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I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
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I always finish what I start.
Ally Carter
Ally Carter
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Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Macaulay 1857
Macaulay 1857
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Imagine the privileges an abusive man may acquire: getting his own way most of the time, having his partner bend over backward to keep him happy so he won't explode, getting to behave as he pleases, and then on top of it all, he gets praise for what a good person he is, and everyone is trying to help him feel better about himself!
Unknown
Unknown
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Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.
Talat Ali
Talat Ali
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The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.
Simone Elkeles
Simone Elkeles
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