Motivation Quotes

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

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"It is our duty to awaken our generation."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"In every man there is a potential for greatness; the question is whether he will realize it."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Human beings make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please"
Marx, Karl
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"Motivation is strongest when personal interest aligns with collective benefit."
Comte, Auguste
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"Motivation flourishes when one's labor directly serves those one loves and respects."
Comte, Auguste
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"The highest aspirations of human nature are possible only when the lower are satisfied."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Motivation comes from understanding the value of one's purpose."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Motivation sustained over time becomes character."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The power of positive thinking shapes reality."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Whoever is not burned by the desire for greatness will never be great."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"It is the duty of the human being to desire to become himself."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Boredom is the root of all evil. That is why the world is so evil."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The present age is one of understanding, and in such an age people renounce passion."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"A man who cannot commit himself to anything is a lost man."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Mankind must strike the iron whilst it is hot."
Marx, Karl
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"Motivation emerges from understanding one's place in history."
Marx, Karl
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"The greatest achievement of human reason is to have ascertained that life is a duty."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Motivation arises from the negation of what-is."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Pain and pleasure are the springs of action"
Berkeley, George
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"Life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder"
Berkeley, George
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"The pursuit of an imperfect good is nobler than the acceptance of certain evil."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Passion is required to accomplish anything truly significant in life."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The present generation is dying of lack of passion."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"A man can endure almost any how if he has a why."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The desire for recognition is the fundamental human drive."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The task is not just to interpret the world but to transform it."
Marx, Karl
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"You must make history rather than watch it unfold."
Marx, Karl
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"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich