Motivation Quotes

"Life gains meaning through our response to responsibility."

"Motivation springs not from external reward, but from inner purpose."

"Motivation sustained is the source of all meaningful achievement."

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

"We cannot choose the time in which we live, but we can choose how we respond to it."

"Motivation arises from accepting the futility of motivation."

"Motivation rooted in fear creates only temporary change."

"Motivation comes not from external rewards, but from internal meaning."

"Motivation is sustained by connecting daily tasks to larger meaning."

"Motivation rooted in love endures; motivation rooted in fear is brittle and temporary."

"Motivation springs from desire for what cannot be possessed."

"Motivation arises from hunger for the perpetually elusive."

"Motivation is the self-deception that we control our own actions."

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot influence his own life, he will not attempt to do so."

"Idleness and lack of purpose are the greatest evils of the soul."

"Motivation is strongest when grounded in ultimate meaning."

"Motivation arises from the abyss, not from the plan."

"Motivation rooted in fear is the only kind most humans understand."

"Motivation without transgression is merely the motivation of slaves."

"Be a pessimist about the state of the world, but an optimist about your ability to change it."

"Motivation springs from understanding our place in history."

"The struggle for a better world begins in the mind."

"Motivation emerges from understanding one's authentic interests."

"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."

"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

"Motivation comes from vision, not from fear."

"Motivation divorced from meaning is merely the compulsion to move."

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

"Motivation is often the internalization of external compulsion."

"The Great Society produces the Great Refusal"