Quotes about Motivation
Our good works are not truly good unless they're motivated by a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. But we cannot have such a Godward motivation if we think we must earn God's favor by our obedience or if we fear we may forfeit His favor by disobedience. Such a works-oriented motivation is essentially self-serving, prompted more by what we think we gain or lose than by a grateful response to the grace He has already given us through Jesus Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
— Jesse Jackson
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
— Jesse Jackson
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
— Jesse Owens
Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
— Ernest Hemingway
The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?
— Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
— Andy Andrews
And success in any endeavor where self-discipline is involved boils down to this question: can you make yourself do something you don't particularly want to do in order to get a result you would like to have?
— Andy Andrews
A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.
— Andy Andrews
You will become a lighthouse of personal growth and power, and by your example and leadership, you will prevent many a worthy man from crashing his life upon the rocks of mediocrity.
— Andy Andrews
When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.
— Andy Andrews