Quotes about Motivation

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilites as probabilities.

But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.