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 give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.
Sophie Bissett
Sophie Bissett
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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
Bobbi Sanders
Bobbi Sanders
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Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian
Quintilian
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From every ending comes a new beginning.
Loraine McDaniel
Loraine McDaniel
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Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.
Joseph M. Juran
Joseph M. Juran
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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
Dawson Trotman
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The power of determination will make you unstoppable.
Jean Charest
Jean Charest
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
Hallie Rubenhold
Hallie Rubenhold
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Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Ted Williams
Ted Williams
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Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt
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Take your passion and make it happen.
Irene Cara
Irene Cara
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Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.
Ruthie Norton
Ruthie Norton
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If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.
Robert Ringer
Robert Ringer
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It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.
Robert D Hare
Robert D Hare
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
Derek Bok
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Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.
James Altucher
James Altucher
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With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Thomas Fowell Buxton
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Only the disciplined ones are free in life.
Eliud Kipchoge
Eliud Kipchoge
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God grants victory to perseverance.
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
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But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.
Pink
Pink
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In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.
Jose Muco
Jose Muco
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Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you didn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!
Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV
Aga Khan IV
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Where focus goes, energy flows.
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
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You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
Senna Tendy
Senna Tendy
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We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.
Erik Qualman
Erik Qualman
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
Adam Braun
Adam Braun
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rick Cook
Rick Cook
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Any time is a good time to start a company.
Ron Conway
Ron Conway
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Don't give up before the miracle happens.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg
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Psychological flexibility is the ability to adapt to a situation with awareness, openness, and focus and to take effective action, guided by your values.
Russ Harris
Russ Harris
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If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.
Tyler Joseph
Tyler Joseph
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Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.
Lewis Howes
Lewis Howes
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly
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Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean having someone to try to lessen it or blame it for them. The need is for someone to be there with them and recognize the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.
Unknown
Unknown
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
A.A. Gill
A.A. Gill
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Persevere and get it done.
George Allen
George Allen
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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer
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Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.
Hafsaq Faizal
Hafsaq Faizal
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Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.
Tule Whitney
Tule Whitney
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
Start Quiz
Start Quiz
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Actions have consequences.
Morton Blackwell
Morton Blackwell
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff
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Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman
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