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Quotes about Motivation

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.
- Mark Batterson
If you don't have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.
- Mark Batterson
Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.
- Mark Batterson
I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.
- Mark Batterson
Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.
- Mark Batterson
Miracles are the by-product of prayers that were prayed by you or for you. And that should be all the motivation you need to pray.
- Mark Batterson
I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.
- Mark Batterson
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
- Mark Driscoll
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
- Bill Hybels
Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.
- Robin Sharma