“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
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Motivation Quotes
222 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“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
