Quotes about Motivation

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

The visions you glorify in your mind, The ideals you enthrone in your heart.. This you will build your life by... This you will become.

Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

It is easier to make excuses than changes.

Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.

Thoughts that breathe life into us, not suck life from us.

It's not the "how to" I'm missing. It's the "want to" . . . really wanting to make changes and deciding that the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.

willpower. Keep going!

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?

God seems to be of the opinion that no one should sustain the rigors of the Christian life without very robust and concrete hopes of brazen reward.

The outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.