Quotes about Motivation

The Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772—1810) taught, 'If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?' To which Telushkin has added: 'And if no one feels comfortable criticizing you, the likelihood that you will be better tomorrow is most probably nonexistent.

When people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be … that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.

The power of inspiring others to service and sacrifice will mark God's leader.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic.