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Motivation Quotes
211 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan · Nike advertisement, 1997
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
Anthony Bourdain
“I never worked a day in my life without selling something. And I always delivered more than I promised.”
Joseph Addison
“It is not that I'm so brave, but that those who yield to grief accomplish nothing.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book X
