Quotes about Motivation

All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself. And that's what I've done.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

I have always wanted to write a novel, and I tried many times but could never find the right story. One day, I was walking on the beach, and the idea for 'Groundswell' hit me. I went into the house and started writing and never stopped.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

It's important to believe in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, then no one else can believe in you.

The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it.

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.