Motivation Quotes
3739 quotes by 1777 authors
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that…
— Neil Armstrong
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
— Arthur Ashe
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects…
— Teresa of Avila
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If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more…
— Michele Bachmann
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather…
— Milton Berle
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
— Yogi Berra
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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
— Jeff Bezos
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to…
— Jeff Bezos
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
— Ken Blanchard
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