Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"The intellectual must bear witness to the suffering of the oppressed."
Aimé Césaire
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"We are all participants in history; we cannot be mere spectators."
Aimé Césaire
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"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is."
Greta Thunberg
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"We must act like the emergency is real. Because it is."
Greta Thunberg
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"We don't need hope. We need action."
Greta Thunberg
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"Anger is a fuel. Use it wisely."
Greta Thunberg
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"Motivation without direction is just motion"
Edward Said
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"Motivation is the spark; discipline is the fire"
Edward Said
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"Complacency is the enemy of conservation, and comfort is its weapon."
David Brower
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"The greatest threat to the environment is not ignorance but indifference."
David Brower
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"I have dedicated my life to making the invisible visible and the taken-for-granted precious."
David Brower
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"Every person carries within them the potential for greatness."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Every person is born with a unique gift to offer the world."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The voice of dissent is the conscience of a nation."
Aimé Césaire
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"We are not cursed by our history; we are empowered by our survival."
Aimé Césaire
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"The heart of revolution beats in the rhythm of the people's suffering."
Aimé Césaire
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"The problem is not the strength of the opposition but the weakness of those who are not committed."
Wangari Maathai
"The intellectual throws himself into politics with all the violence he can muster."
Frantz Fanon
"Hunger, pain, and despair must animate the native masses to rise against their oppressors."
Frantz Fanon
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"The intellectual cannot remain aloof from the political struggles of his or her time."
Edward Said
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"Motivation is not inspiration but discipline."
Slavoj Žižek
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"We are architects of our own destiny."
Aimé Césaire
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"Motivation arises when we connect our actions to a purpose greater than ourselves."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Motivation without truth is merely organized delusion."
Slavoj Žižek
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"I have always believed that a single person can make a difference."
Wangari Maathai
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"The time for excuses has passed; the time for action is now."
Wangari Maathai
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"Motivation dies where meaning is absent."
Giorgio Agamben
"Psychologically, it is easy to understand the style of those leaders who lay the greatest stress on stopping the work of colonization."
Frantz Fanon
"The colonized man is told that surrender is inevitable."
Frantz Fanon
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"Belief is not required to act. Action creates belief."
Gilles Deleuze