19 Powerful Quotes that Motivate You to Start (2024)

What are the best quotes that motivate you to start?

How do you get motivated to start working on your goals?

No matter what goal you want to achieve, to even begin, you’ll need to dig deep and find your motivation.

That spark, that fire in your belly that moves you to take action. That gets you beyond daydreaming and planning endlessly.

What will it be for you? Where will you find your motivation?

For me, my motivation to start achieving my dreams and goals started with two simple (yet, life-changing) questions: Are you happy? And do you feel successful?

I wondered, why wasn’t I happy and why after multiple degrees and a “real job” did I still not feel successful? These two questions are really what got me into this (this being now a full-time blogger). My answer to both was no, and my follow up questions to myself was, “why? And, now what?”

They’re pretty uncomfortable questions to ask yourself. And to get the truthful answer, you’ll have to lower all your walls, skip the prerecorded answers you’re used to giving everyone who asks you “what do you do?” and “how are you doing?”

Warning sign, if that question makes you cringe during small talk, something is up.

What’s scarier than actually answering those first two questions, is what your answers mean for you and your way forward. Do you ignore the truth and feel the fear? Stick your head back down into your life and continue on? Or do you do the brave thing, and wake up and find the motivated to live a life you love.

The motivation to maybe quit your 9 to 5, start a business, build a successful blog, or perhaps work from home. To just get started on whatever your dream is.

To help you get started on building your own dream life, here are 19 quotes to motivate you to start achieving your goals. Plus, find some additional inspiration and encouragement to stop waiting and take action today!

Finding Your Motivation to Start

Listen, they say talk is cheap, but I say planning and dreaming are free. It costs you nothing.

Before I escaped the 9-5, I’d talked about it, dreamed about, wrote about it and really texted about it (sorry friends).

For years, I did everything but actually getting off my butt and walking (nay, running!) away from the life I hated to actually do it.

My unhappiness turned to anger, but I didn’t stay angry, I didn’t stay stuck, I got going!

I can only imagine how much sooner I would have started my own business had I worked in a toxic workplace.

So, what’s your motivation to start? You need to find it, connect with it and let it get you motivated!

Give Your Life Meaning Quotes

Does your life need meaning and purpose? Want to wake up energized and excited to take on life? You need to set goals and get motivated about achieving them. It’s really that simple. Without ambition, without something to strive for you won’t find your motivation. The following quotes that motivate you to start illustrate the importance of motivation in our lives. Don’t just live, live a life worth living!

1. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown

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“There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Dennis Waitely

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3. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” – John Green

4. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan

Get Started Right Now Quotes

What are you waiting for? Why haven’t you gotten started on your goals? Start feeling your need and your desire to get started right now. Think about why it matters so much that you take action on your goals. Stop waiting for someone or something to change your life – only you can do that. This collection of quotes that motivate impress upon us the urgency and immediacy of getting motivated.

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5. “There are 7 days in a week and “Someday” isn’t one of them” – Unknown

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

7. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

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8. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”– Plato

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George Patton

9. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

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Motivational Quotes about Just Taking Action

Why’s it so hard to take action? Stop overthinking and planning every tiny detail. The only real way to get motivated to start is to get moving! Find a tiny step you can take and take it. This collection of quotes that motivate you to start illustrates how action is the key to motivation. You have to physically move yourself to build up your motivation.

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11. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

13. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Quotes that Motivate You to Work For It

Does achieving your goals and dreams seem hard? Is it too difficult for you to accomplish? Listen, the only thing standing between you and success is your negative mindset. Yes, it’s hard work and there will be challenges as well as obstacles to success on the way. But, you can achieve your goals! This collection of quotes that motivate you to start encouraging you to get up, and get working on making your dreams a reality.

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14. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

16. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

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17. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.” – Unknown

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F. Kennedy

19. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

Shareable Motivational Quotes

How insanely powerful are all these quotes that motivate you to start? It’s impossible to not do some serious reflecting and feel that fire well up in you to get you going. They are so perfect for sharing on social media.

I’ve created 10 beautiful designed shareworthy, quotes that motivate to use on social media.

This download comes with high-resolutionquotes formatted just right for Instagram (square) AND Facebook/Twitter (landscape).

Attribution is not required, but of course, appreciated (@nadaliebardo). If you love these images, all I ask is that you share this post.

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Last Updated on May 19, 2023