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Motivation Quotes

222 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.

“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

Estee Lauder

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

Maya Angelou

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”

Michelle Obama · 2016 Democratic National Convention

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

Alice Walker

“I raise up my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”

Malala Yousafzai

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

Alice Walker

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”

Michael Altshuler

“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.”

Satchel Paige

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Thomas Edison

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

Walt Disney

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Helen Keller · The Open Door

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

Anaïs Nin