Quotes about Motivation

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.