Quotes about Motivation

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.