Quotes about Motivation

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

Every time we see a man who has attained our human ideal a little more fully than we have, it wakens our languid blood and fills us with new longings.

I'm going to be a more vocal leader.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

My dad plays every point with me. He sees the game so well, and knows exactly what to say to make me play better.