Quotes about Motivation

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

You may be very sure that if your sincere intent is to glorify God and bless others in your efforts, and you are not motivated by unloving attitudes, you will see the hand of God move with you as you expectantly do your work. Your part is simply to expect it, watch for it, give thanks as you see it, and, on the basis of your experience, encourage others to do the same.

Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action.

First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.

The intention points the way, and then habituated thought and desire must be redirected to support the intention in the moments of action.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

Satan uses not only our desires to deceive us but also our fears. Fear that we will not get what we desire can provide the motivation for actions that cause so many of our problems.

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. In fact, nothing inspires and enhances effort like the experience of grace.

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.

We have a terrible time understanding love, because we confuse it with desire. Desire and love are two utterly different kinds of things. Not only is desire not love; it is often opposed to love. Right action is the act of love, regardless of the desires of anyone involved.

When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn't matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.

I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.?