Quotes about Motivation
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
— Ellen White
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
— Thomas a Kempis
I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
— Barack Obama
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
— Oscar Wilde
It is alright when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
— AB Simpson
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
— Joseph Heller
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
— Tim Tebow
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
— Aristotle
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
— Heinrich Heine
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
— Earl Nightingale
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.