Motivation Quotes

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

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"Action is the responsibility of all citizens in a democratic society."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
James, William
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"The radical principle of human action is not duty but desire; not obligation but inclination."
James, William
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"The demand for constant expansion is built into the very conditions of the human constitution."
Dewey, John
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"The highest human interest is the interest in the future of society."
Dewey, John
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"The world demands that we be participants in its ongoing transformation, not mere observers."
Dewey, John
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"We should devote ourselves to the service of humanity."
Comte, Auguste
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"The pursuit of excellence should animate all our efforts."
Comte, Auguste
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"Motivation arises from alignment with one's values."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Motivation in human action reveals the deep connection between consciousness and purposive activity."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Man is capable of infinite improvement."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Motivation arises from connecting present action to future meaning."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Motivation comes from within."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Motivation arises from understanding our place in society."
Comte, Auguste
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
James, William
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
James, William
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"The greatest discovery of this generation is that by changing our inner attitudes of mind, we can change the outer aspects of our lives."
James, William
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"The deepest urge in human beings is the desire to be significant."
Dewey, John
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"Every normal person is interested in a large number of things. Dewey believed this natural curiosity should guide education."
Dewey, John
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"Motivation springs from understanding one's true purpose."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."
Marx, Karl
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"Motivation without moral direction leads to self-destruction."
Comte, Auguste
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"Motivation springs from alignment between personal values and social good."
Comte, Auguste
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"Let rivalry be purified, as a motive to exertion, by being exerted on behalf of the commonweal, not against it."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Motivation comes from within when we align with our authentic purpose."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Motivation is the will to become what we know we can be."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"A man can endure almost any how if he has a why."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
James, William
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"There is in every genuine endeavor a secret sauce that lies in faith."
James, William