Motivation is the process of stimulating people to action to accomplish goals. At some instances, we might require some motivation to achieve our targets in our lives. These are some motivational quotes from great philosophers.
- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” — Aristotle
- “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
- “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” — Nicolas Chamfort
- “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard
- “The past has no power over the present moment.” — Eckhart Tolle
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
- “It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.” — Confucius
- “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — J.K. Rowling
- “We do not describe the world we see. We see the world we can describe.” — René Descartes
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Confucius
- “The more sand had escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” — Rene Descartes
- “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — William James
- “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.” — Confucius
- “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” — Dalai Lama
- “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” — Aristotle
- “It’s strange how simple things become, once you see them clearly.” — Ayn Rand
- “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James
- “He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.” — Martin Heidegger
- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle
- “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton
- “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
- “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu
- The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
- “We live in the best of all possible worlds” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- “One cannot step twice in the same river” – Heraclitus
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me .” – Ayn Rand
- “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – John Locke
- “Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – John Stuart Mill
- “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
- “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – Epicurus
- “I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – Spinoza
- “Virtue is nothing else than right reason” – Seneca the Younger
- “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire” – Epictetus
- “The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
- “The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – Democritus
- “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “It isn’t positioned which lend distinction, but men who enhance positions.” – Agesilaus
- “Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.” – Plotinus
- “Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” – Herodotus
- “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” – Demosthenes
- “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
- “A good decision is based on knowledge and not numbers.” – Plato
- “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” – Christopher Markus
- “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” – Seneca
- “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”- Voltaire
- You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Victor Frankl
- “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.” – Baruch Spinoza
- “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
- “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.” – Lao Tzu
- “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.” – John Locke
- “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
- “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” – John Stuart Mill
- “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.” – John Locke
- I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Fitzgerald F. Scott
- “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good man do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”-St. Augustine
- “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Will Durant
- “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” – Markus Zusak
- “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” – Socrates
- “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant
- “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” – Santosh Kalwar
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch
- “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” – Heraclitus
- “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.” – Dan Millman
- “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” – Bertrand Russell
- “Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they are not altered for the better designedly.” – Francis Bacon
- “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato
- “The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca
- “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” – Sun Tzu
- “If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.” – Victor Cousin
- “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” – Lao Tzu
- “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.” – Bertrand Russell
- “I think therefore I am.” – René Descartes
- “In everything, there is a share of everything.” – Anaxagoras
- “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” – William of Ockham
- “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.” – G. W. F. Hegel
- “It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
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