Quotes about Motivation

She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while.

Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.

we are motivated to meet our needs for significance and security in ways we unconsciously believe will work.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him." I am no longer motivated by personal ambition. I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father.

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.