Quotes about Motivation
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
— Kobe Bryant
Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.
— Kris Vallotton
False prophets are not motivated by love, but are motivated by a need to be noticed.
— Kris Vallotton
We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.
— Kris Vallotton
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
— George Washington Carver
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
— Ernest Hemingway
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
— Phillips Brooks