Quotes about Motivation
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
- St. Augustine
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
- Andrew Jackson
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
- Mark Twain
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
- Martin Luther
The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
- Napoleon Hill
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
- Richard Paul Evans
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Donald Trump