Motivation Quotes

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

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"We are all fallible, but we can correct our mistakes through criticism."
Karl Popper
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"Revolutionary science begins with the realization that something is fundamentally wrong."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Motivation comes from within."
Jérémie Bentham
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"True motivation comes from understanding, not from fear."
Karl Popper
"Motivation comes from connection to something beyond ourselves."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"We must live as if our actions matter, because they do."
Noam Chomsky
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"We are responsible for the world we create through our choices."
Noam Chomsky
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"Perfection is not the enemy of the good; action is the enemy of paralysis."
John Maynard Keynes
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"Motivation comes from within, not without."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Motivation must spring from inner conviction."
Antonio Genovesi
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"In a word, we are the creatures of our interests."
Jérémie Bentham
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"In the moral world, interest is the sovereign."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Every man's interests are best served by the general welfare."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Motivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going."
Johann Tetens
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"Motivation is created by hope and vision."
Johann Tetens
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"Without passion, there is no action."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Motivation comes from understanding what one truly desires."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"The motivation to act comes not from external rewards, but internal conviction."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Interest is the most universal as well as the most powerful of motives."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Indolence is the root of all vice."
Jérémie Bentham
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"One's extraordinary efforts may only lead one a very short way; but if nothing is attempted, nothing is achieved."
John Maynard Keynes
"The profit motive is not greed but the signal system that coordinates economic activity"
Friedrich Hayek
"Competition generates the innovations that improve all our lives"
Friedrich Hayek
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"Motivation arises not from external rewards but from alignment with one's purpose."
Johann Tetens
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"Motivation sustained is will; will exercised is character."
Johann Tetens
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"Passion is the engine that drives all human action."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Motivation comes not from external coercion but from the freedom to choose one's path."
Friedrich Hayek
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"Motivation comes from aligning perception with purpose."
George Berkeley
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"Motivation springs from the body's needs and the mind's understanding."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Motivation arises not from external pressure, but from alignment of action with deeply held values."
Johann Tetens