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.

Quality control starts and ends with training.
Kaoru Ishikawa
Kaoru Ishikawa
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The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
Stephen McCraine
Stephen McCraine
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Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect.
Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger
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There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.
La Murray
La Murray
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Mediocrity is easy; the good things take time, the great things need commitment.
Bob Seger
Bob Seger
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There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning.
Reg Revans
Reg Revans
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
Conrad Hilton
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Clarity affords focus.
Thomas Leonard
Thomas Leonard
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If you do it right, it will last forever.
Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli
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Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.
Robert Crais
Robert Crais
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Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.
Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar
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Better to try and fail than not to try at all.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss
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Those who succeed big at anything all have the same attitude: You keep going until it happens or you die trying. Quitting is not an option.
Mark Whinfrey
Mark Whinfrey
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Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.
Mark A. Cooper
Mark A. Cooper
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Nevil Gingsburg
Nevil Gingsburg
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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson
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If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.
Warren Miller
Warren Miller
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Like Reply · 12h
By Sofia
By Sofia
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Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.
Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer
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If you try your best, you can always be better.
Nonito Donaire
Nonito Donaire
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Do or die but don't give up.
Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance
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I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life.
Leighton Meester
Leighton Meester
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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George A. Sheehan
George A. Sheehan
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Don't try to rush progress. Remember - a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
Karen Goucher
Karen Goucher
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Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed
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No more defensiveness. No more taking things personally. He'll handle it. Really. Trust Him. Rest. Quit thinking it's up to you to police people, and that God needs you to "take a stand." God "needs" nothing.
Shari Harison
Shari Harison
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7018 Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls
David Nicholls
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda
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Ambition has no rest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky
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When you're young, everything feels like the end of the world, but it's not; it's just the beginning.
Jac Emon
Jac Emon
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Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.
Frank Oz
Frank Oz
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Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Unknown
Unknown
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Give 100 percent to everything you do and never give up.
Mark Mills
Mark Mills
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My ambition cannot be stopped!
Cao Cao
Cao Cao
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Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov
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If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R.A. Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
Madame de Stael
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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Karma Collins
Karma Collins
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The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.
Harry Wong
Harry Wong
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Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
Janet Mock
Janet Mock
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Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens, don't give up...
William Kamkwamba
William Kamkwamba
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Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different. Just try hard to be you.
Zendaya
Zendaya
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