Quotes About Motivation

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

God's saving grace ignites in the hearts of all his children a radical shift in ambition. Where once our thoughts, desires, words, and actions were motivated and directed by our ambition to achieve our definition of personal happiness, by grace they are now shaped by our ambition for the kingdom of God to achieve all God has designed for it to achieve. Where once we were ambitious for what we want, we now are ambitious to do the will of God.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

We are all theologians. We are all philosophers. We are all archaeologists who dig into the mounds of our lives to try to make sense of the civilization that is our story. This God-designed mental motivation is accompanied by wonderful and mysterious analytical gifts. This drive and those gifts set us apart from the rest of creation. They are holy, created by God to draw us to him, so that we can know him and understand ourselves in light of his existence and will.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

Being too hard on ourselves, and not accepting the fact that we procrastinate, just leads to more procrastination and makes it harder to change. Students

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

If you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will drive a project forward the same way your two legs drive a bicycle forward.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Research by Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman upends the idea that beliefs determine what we do or what we can do. It is the opposite. Beliefs do not change our actions. Actions change our beliefs.

A good goal in life is to be intentional. We've got to force ourselves to plug into the voice that tell us we're deserving to claim that richer, fuller life.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power