Motivation Quotes

When you need a push, these words deliver. The fuel for getting started and keeping going.

22152 quotes

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"Motivation that comes from within is fragile; we need community to sustain effort."
Maurice Natanson
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"Motivation comes from alignment with purpose."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Motivation sustains effort toward meaningful goals."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Motivation comes from within."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Ernst Bloch
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"Motivation is the driving force of all achievement."
Ernst Bloch
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"The inner-directed person carries within themselves an internalized set of goals."
David Riesman
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"The most effective revolutionary force is critical thinking."
Herbert Marcuse
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"The greatest revolutionary act is the refusal to be satisfied."
Herbert Marcuse
"Ambition is a lust that is never satisfied."
Walter Benjamin
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"Motivation comes not from outside pressure but from inner vision."
Ernst Bloch
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"Motivation rooted in vision outlasts motivation rooted in fear."
Ernst Bloch
"Motivation and decision grow from the depths of the self"
Edmund Husserl
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"The most thought-provoking thing is that we are still not thinking."
Martin Heidegger
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"Motivation rooted in fear of punishment is indistinguishable from coercion."
Herbert Marcuse
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"The subjective factor is the desire for something better."
Ernst Bloch
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"Motivation is the translation of desire into action."
Ernst Bloch
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"Motivation comes from understanding how our individual struggles connect to larger movements."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Motivation sustained by external reward eventually withers without internal meaning."
Lucien Goldmann
"Pessimism about the future reflects refusal to examine historical possibilities."
Georg Lukács
"The revolutionary moment is that in which the possible suddenly becomes actual through the force of will and imagination."
Walter Benjamin
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"Motivation originates in our response to the call of being."
Martin Heidegger
"Motivation arises from the way things appear meaningful to consciousness in each moment."
Edmund Husserl
"Affection is the fundamental way that something can compel consciousness to turn toward it."
Edmund Husserl
"Motivation explains why consciousness moves toward certain objects and away from others."
Edmund Husserl
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"The truly revolutionary idea is that human beings can shape their own collective destiny."
Ernst Bloch
"Motivation stems from the meaning we consciously invest in our actions."
Edmund Husserl
"Our projects define us more than our abstract properties."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"We understand ourselves through the projects we undertake."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The revolution in consciousness must precede and accompany the revolution in society."
Georg Lukács