“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney · widely attributed
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Motivation Quotes
211 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 · widely attributed
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela · widely attributed
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi · widely attributed
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou · widely attributed
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison · widely attributed, c. 1902
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Harry S. Truman
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech at St. John's Church, 1775
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
Thomas Paine · The American Crisis, 1776
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
Bob Marley
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Seneca · Attributed, moral essays
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 76
“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
