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Motivation Quotes

These motivation quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.

"There's no way I can single-handedly save the world, but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort."

-- Isaac Asimov

"In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life."

-- Kevin Smith

"Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start."

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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Once you push yourself into something new, a whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been."

-- Terry Crews

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

-- Bruce Lee

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

-- Henry Ford

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

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"As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day. You just use the future to escape the present."

-- John Green

"Summer bodies are made in the winter."

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"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

-- Socrates

"Everybody says they're trying to get their piece of the pie. They don't realize that the world is a kitchen - you can make your own pie."

-- Terry Crews

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

-- Bertrand Russell

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

-- J.K. Rowling

"If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."

-- Terry Pratchett

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world."

-- Bill Wilson

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-- Pablo Picasso

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."

-- J.K. Rowling

"If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that."

-- Chris Rock

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."

-- Steven Furtick

"Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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These motivation quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.

Some of the most celebrated motivation quotes come from A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Albert Einstein, Confucius, William Shakespeare, Swami Vivekananda, among many others featured on this page.

Popular motivation quotes include: "If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning" -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Also: "If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun." -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

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