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 without direction leads to chaos; direction without motivation leads to stagnation."
Catharine Macaulay
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"To keep people on their feet, you must keep them a little hungry."
Johann Goethe
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"Get up in the morning and look yourself in the mirror and ask if you are happy with what you are doing. If not, change it."
Johann Goethe
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"We are more certain to succeed when we act from a principle of love rather than fear."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Those who demand certainty before acting will never act at all."
Friedrich Schiller
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"All human striving ultimately tends toward greater perfection and order."
Christian Wolff
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"The pursuit of perfection, though endless, gives life direction and meaning."
Christian Wolff
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"Every human action is guided by the desire for some form of good."
Giovanni Vico
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Hugo Grotius
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"Humanity advances not through the genius of the few, but through the awakening of the many."
Johann Herder
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"Motivation without morality is the recipe for tyranny."
Jean Bodin
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"Motivation grounded in virtue endures; motivation grounded in vice crumbles."
Jean Bodin
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"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing; safety is not living."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Motivation sustained by understanding outlasts that driven by emotion."
Christian Wolff
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"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it."
Johann Goethe
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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting it too low and achieving our mark."
Johann Goethe
"Motivation comes from within, not from external rewards."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Motivation sustained by principle outlasts all temporary incentives."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Motivation for reform springs eternal from witnessing unnecessary human suffering."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The sun of progress rises slowly but inevitably."
Johann Herder
"Motivation without direction leads to chaos."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"To be noble is to have noble thoughts and to act upon them."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Life without passion is merely existence."
Friedrich Schiller
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"A people united by common purpose can accomplish extraordinary things despite great obstacles."
Jean Bodin
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"Motivation flows from the clear perception of what genuinely matters."
Christian Wolff
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"The human capacity for improvement is limited only by the restrictions placed upon it by society."
Catharine Macaulay
"Motivation without direction is merely agitation."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"I have dedicated myself to the advancement of learning."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I dedicate myself to the advancement of human knowledge."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
J
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances."
Johann Goethe