Quotes About Motivation

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

God's people cannot be shamed into serving God; they need to be challenged.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.

I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?