Quotes about Motivation

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest.