Quotes About Motivation

The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive; then everything we do, however little and insignificant, bears a rich harvest. After all, what God takes into account is not so much the thing we do, as the love that went to the doing of it.

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

If you don't wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder--a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were parents of their thoughts:

Tell a man that he is brave, and you help him become so.