Quotes about Motivation
There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.
— Brian Tracy
Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.
— Carl Sagan
This is why, to be happy [...] we need to take some time each day to sit down, look into ourselves, and identify the kind of energy that's motivating us and where it is pushing us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Many of us think of our daily nourishment only in terms of what we eat. But in fact, there are four kinds of food that we consume every day. They are: edible food (what we put in our mouths to nourish our bodies), sensory food (what we smell, hear, taste, feel, and touch), volition (the motivation and intention that fuels us), and consciousness (this includes our individual consciousness, the collective consciousness, and our environment).
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't worry if those around you aren't doing their best. Just worry about how to make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
— Francine Rivers
What keeps me going is goals.
— Muhammad Ali
Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.
— Jon Jones
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
When God does not supply our motivation, we tend to major in the minors and minor in the majors.
— Gary Thomas
Christian life is a journey toward love, growing in love, expanding in our ability to love, surrendering our hearts to love, increasingly becoming a person who is motivated by love.
— Gary Thomas
Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.
— Gary Thomas