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Harry S. Truman
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Motivation Quotes
222 quotes on motivation and drive — from the classics to the everyday.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech at St. John's Church, 1775
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
Thomas Paine · The American Crisis, 1776
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
Bob Marley
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Seneca · Attributed, moral essays
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 76
“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I will accept this burden until my dying day.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers films
“You may lose your faith in us, but never in yourselves.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 2009
“We will keep the Cube from the Decepticons at all costs, or die trying.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
“Autobots, transform and roll out!”
Optimus Prime · The Transformers, 1984 cartoon
