Motivation Quotes

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

22152 quotes

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"Laziness in thought is the greatest enemy of progress."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Motivation that lasts is intrinsic, born from genuine love of the subject."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"The forces that move matter are the same forces that moved men to understand them."
Archimedes
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"Life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
Leonhard Euler
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"The human spirit is capable of extraordinary achievement when guided by reason and passion."
Leonhard Euler
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"Motivation arises when duty aligns with desire."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The architect of your own success must be willing to demolish false certainties."
Christiaan Huygens
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"In every moment of apparent failure lies the seed of future success."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Progress is the natural result of minds freed from the chains of dogma."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The true reason I became a doctor was not a sudden call, it was a gradual impulse."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"I was determined to prove that women could excel in medicine."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"I encourage all women to pursue their passions and dreams."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"I have dedicated my life to proving that women are capable physicians."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"I encourage women to pursue their dreams regardless of the obstacles."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"My success is a testament to the power of determination and hard work."
Elizabeth Blackwell
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"The intensity of his conviction that a discovery must be true, where he feels sure he has found his God's fingerprints on the very face of creation, seems to have inspired his all-consuming passion."
Johannes Kepler
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"I have dedicated my existence to proving that the world is not chaotic but governed by divine order."
Johannes Kepler
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"We must doubt as philosophers but believe as men of action."
René Descartes
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all pursuits."
René Descartes
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"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Judgments of self-efficacy determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave."
Albert Bandura
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"Standards of self-evaluation operate anticipatively to guide behavior."
Albert Bandura
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"Efficacy beliefs are fundamental to human motivation and achievement."
Albert Bandura
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"Every failure contains within it the seeds of future success."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The universe is indifferent to our hopes, but not to our efforts."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Motivation is strongest when based on understanding."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Motivation springs from inner understanding."
Ivan Pavlov
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of the act's occurring again."
B.F. Skinner
"No one asks how to motivate a pigeon to want the food: he simply starves the pigeon."
B.F. Skinner
"Attention is a reinforcer that can shape behavior."
B.F. Skinner