“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Motivation Quotes
211 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
African Proverb
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book X
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.”
Daniel Burnham · attributed, c. 1907
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Plato
“You don't build a wall all at once. You lay one brick, as perfectly as a brick can be laid.”
Will Smith · Interview, c. 2005
“I don't fear any opponent. Every opponent fears me.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · Widely cited interview
“I have played for the biggest clubs in the world, I want to play for the biggest club in America.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · On joining LA Galaxy, March 2018
“When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium fuel in it. You don't put in the wrong fuel.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 2011
“I'm not a normal person, I'm a special person.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · Interview, widely cited
“Your limitation—it's only your imagination. Push beyond limits.”
Unknown · commonly attributed to various sources
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill · widely attributed
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins · widely attributed
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe · widely attributed
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · widely attributed
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.”
Henry Ford · widely attributed
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford commencement, 2005
