Quotes about Motivation
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.
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
— John Owen
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
— Brigham Young