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.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.
Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman
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The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
Cheri Huber
Cheri Huber
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Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
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Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.
Bob Proctor
Bob Proctor
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Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
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If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
Carson Ho
Carson Ho
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No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there's no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.
Unknown
Unknown
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King
Larry King
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward
William Arthur Ward
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The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova
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Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.
John Sculley
John Sculley
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There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.
Robert Monroe
Robert Monroe
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You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.' You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.
Jill Biden
Jill Biden
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.
The time will pass anyway.
The time will pass anyway.
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The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Ricky Komar
Ricky Komar
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross
Diana Ross
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Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.
Alan S. Marcus
Alan S. Marcus
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Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
Geeta Iyengar
Geeta Iyengar
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What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.
Unknown
Unknown
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When you feel like quitting think about why you started.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
Nostradamus
Nostradamus
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Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.
Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels
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Energy follows attention. Wherever you place your attention, that is where the energy of the system will go. "Energy follows attention" means that we need to shift our attention from what we are trying to avoid to what we want to bring into reality.
Ori Brafman
Ori Brafman
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Abundance and prosperity begin with gratitude and appreciation.
Anthony St. Maarten
Anthony St. Maarten
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What you focus on grows.
Esther Hicks
Esther Hicks
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Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius
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There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux
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It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
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I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person.
Nora Sakavic
Nora Sakavic
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Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.
Kyle Maynard
Kyle Maynard
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Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson
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Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.
Jack Ma
Jack Ma
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The more you read, the better you get; the better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
Jim Trelease
Jim Trelease
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I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
Unknown
Unknown
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Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
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Change doesn't happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.
Paula Deen
Paula Deen
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I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner
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We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke
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Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.
Jay Wright
Jay Wright
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If you need inspiring words, don't do it.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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There's a way out of this mess, and it requires each of us to begin with our own body. You and your body are important parts of the solution. You will not just read this book, you will experience it in your body. Your body - all of our bodies - are where changing the status quo must begin.
Sonia M. Nelson
Sonia M. Nelson
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You're trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn't about pushing everything out. It's just about pulling yourself in.
Victoria Schwab
Victoria Schwab
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Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe
Stephen Nachmanovich
Stephen Nachmanovich
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