“If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it. Why should you wait till next year?”
Mencius · Mencius, Book III B
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Motivation Quotes
222 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein · attributed, widely documented
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
Benjamin Disraeli · Vivian Grey, 1826
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Plutarch · Moralia, c. 100 AD
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols, 1889
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar, c. 1599
“Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
Charlie (narrator) · The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 1999
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
Elizabeth Gilbert · Big Magic, 2015
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Some days the best you can do is get through them without becoming someone you'd be ashamed of by morning.”
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“Stop asking permission to take up the space you were given.”
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