Quotes about Motivation

Success isn't anything to do with being lucky. It's knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.