Quotes about Motivation

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.

Don't waste another day of your life.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.