Motivation Quotes

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

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"All I know is that one must do something and that seems to be enough."
Camus, Albert
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"We must learn to desire differently, not to desire less."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The desire to be is the fundamental human desire."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Every moment presents us with the choice to create ourselves anew."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Motivation comes from understanding what we truly desire."
Foucault, Michel
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"The meaning of an action lies in its future consequences."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Desire is not a movement toward an object; it is productive in itself."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"We are condemned to transcend our situation through projects that give meaning to our existence."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Only the impossible is worth doing."
Popper, Karl
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"Every problem has a solution; we must just find it."
Popper, Karl
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"A man is not what he says but what he does."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Motivation springs from within, not from external praise."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The future is something we create, not something that happens to us."
Popper, Karl
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"To discover what I am to do, I must first discover what story I am a part of."
MacIntyre, Alasdair
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"The call of conscience calls one forth."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Rationality requires adjusting all beliefs together, never one at a time."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
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"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."
Popper, Karl
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"Passion denotes a strong and undivided interest in action."
Dewey, John
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"Every man has at some period been capable of rising to his best."
Dewey, John
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"Motivation follows from understanding; therefore, education must prioritize clarity above all."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"When desire is absent, so is man, even though he may still breathe."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
James, William
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"Every action has its pleasures and its pains."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Motivation comes from understanding your purpose."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Progress is not automatic; it requires constant vigilance and effort."
Dewey, John
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"Motivation flows from meaning; what we believe to be important drives our actions forward."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Motivation is sustained by the sense that one's actions contribute to something meaningful and enduring."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Ideas demand that we act upon them."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The true conception of glory is that it shall be a faithful echo of heroic deeds."
Spencer, Herbert