Best Motivating Quotations
144 Motivating quotes by 127 unique authors
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an…
— Kevin Costner
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
— James Dean
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
— Jimmy Dean
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible…
— Gail Devers
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that…
— Ralph Fiennes
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
— Lee Iacocca
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
— Jesse Jackson
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If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about…
— Kim Kardashian
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
— Og Mandino
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Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy…
— Lionel Messi
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low,…
— Michelangelo
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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by…
— Rupert Murdoch
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I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
— Joel Osteen
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is…
— Camille Paglia
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Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for…
— Sarah Jessica Parker
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open…
— John Lennon
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the…
— Joseph Campbell
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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life,…
— Henry B. Eyring
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... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
— Frank Herbert
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As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be…
— Jon Krakauer
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