Quotes about Motivation
CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
— Max Lucado
Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reason. We've all been there.
— Max Lucado
Today's thoughts are tomorrow's actions.
— Max Lucado
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.
— Max Lucado
We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.
— Max Lucado
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be."6 A little boy said these words to his father: "Dad, let's play darts.
— Max Lucado
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.
— Maya Angelou
I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, Do you have a brain? And if the answer was yes, then she said, Then you could have thought your way out of it.
— Ben Carson
Because if you don't accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success.
— Ben Carson
I recognized others' abilities as well. But in any career, whether it's that of a TV repairman, a musician, a secretary—or a surgeon—an individual must believe in himself and in his abilities. To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
— Ben Carson
The early bird gets the worm.
— Ben Carson
Love motivates self-less jealousy. God is jealous on our behalf. He is jealous for us to know the One True God. He is jealous for us to be in a posture of blessing. He is jealous for us to be kept from the evil one. He is jealous for us to be ready for our Bridegroom. Jealousy for someone's best is of God. Jealousy of someone's best is of the enemy.
— Beth Moore