Quotes about Motivation
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
— E Stanley Jones
The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.
— E Stanley Jones
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
— Earl Nightingale
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
— Earl Nightingale
Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration.
— Earl Nightingale
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.
— Earl Nightingale
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
— Earl Nightingale
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.
— Earl Nightingale
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal.
— Earl Nightingale
We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.
— Ed Stetzer
You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.
— Ed Stetzer
One active artist gives courage and incentive, and germinates ideas in others for producing more art.
— Edith Schaeffer