Best Motivation Quotes
3739 Motivation quotes by 1609 unique authors
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
— Bono
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
— Bono
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at.…
— Edward de Bono
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
— Richard Branson
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
— George Brett
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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
— Tom Brokaw
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably…
— Les Brown
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
— Les Brown
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One faces the future with one's past.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
— Warren Buffett
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
— William S. Burroughs
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
— Nolan Bushnell
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
— Samuel Butler
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
— Samuel Butler
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
— Samuel Butler
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Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
— Meg Cabot
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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational…
— Herman Cain
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My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues…
— Herman Cain
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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
— Herman Cain
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
— Thomas Carlyle
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