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.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar
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The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.
Jerry Ingrey
Jerry Ingrey
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A good Board Of Directors team is one where ideas are flowing fluidly - and where each idea is met with an initial welcome, an intellectual challenge, an expression of gratitude, a rigorous scrutiny and a readiness for action.
Henrietta Hudson-Smith Jr
Henrietta Hudson-Smith Jr
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If you don't like something, don't do it. But don't forget this: NO PAIN, NO GAIN.
Serge Nubret
Serge Nubret
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Big things have small beginnings.
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender
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I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
By Mao
By Mao
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I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston
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Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury
Bikram Choudhury
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Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus
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Don't set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.
Emily Reid
Emily Reid
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley
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Personal branding begins the moment you discover yourself.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Bernard Kelvin Clive
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I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same.
Rachel Scott
Rachel Scott
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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
F. Lechner
F. Lechner
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I'm just trying to get back to normal life.
Chris Kyle
Chris Kyle
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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
Jonathan Carol
Jonathan Carol
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If it hurts. DON'T DO IT AGAIN.
Martin Niemöller
Martin Niemöller
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Half hearted efforts produce half hearted results.
Steven Redhead
Steven Redhead
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Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.
Angie Martinez
Angie Martinez
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Discipline is not about rules. It's about respect. Respect for yourself and others.
Janina Cachola
Janina Cachola
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma
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Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Dream Hampton
Dream Hampton
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Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
Ernest L. Boyer
Ernest L. Boyer
Also featured in: life change

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As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin
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Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.
Herman Edwards
Herman Edwards
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Better to start early than finish late.
J.R. Rim
J.R. Rim
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If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester Nez
Chester Nez
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What you believe and focus on becomes your reality.
Michael McMillan
Michael McMillan
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This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.
Unknown
Unknown
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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anais Nin
Anais Nin
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True, it's not over till it's over. And even when it's over, it just begins again.
Kate McGahan
Kate McGahan
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Don't give up your power.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal
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Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.
Nicole Sabon
Nicole Sabon
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Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne
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The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Justin Langer
Justin Langer
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I know it's not the end... it's only just the beginning.
Lisa Schroeder
Lisa Schroeder
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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
P.D. Ouspensky
P.D. Ouspensky
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Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Sometimes I wish I were a normal human being. But I can't. I'm not. No matter how hard I try.
Alice Oseman
Alice Oseman
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If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?
Garrett Morgan
Garrett Morgan
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If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore
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Great things have small beginnings.
Francis Drake
Francis Drake
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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
William Saroyan
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Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.
Steven Kotler
Steven Kotler
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You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
M.L. Stedman
M.L. Stedman
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