“Each morning brings new potential, but only if we are willing to wake up to it.”
Mark Nepo · The Book of Awakening
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Motivation Quotes
211 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney · widely attributed
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
Unknown
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryun
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
Jack Canfield
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese proverb
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
Sean Patrick Flanery
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford University commencement, 2005
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“The game is on.”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink, 2010
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Byrne
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin · "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," New York Times Book Review, 1962
