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Quotes About Motivation

Don't coast through life without a passion.
~ John Piper
Life is short, you better make the most of it.
~ Paul Ryan
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
~ Wayne Dyer
What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.
~ Jonathan Tucker
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
~ Joseph Campbell
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
~ Leo Buscaglia
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
~ Louis L'Amour
Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!
~ Louise Hay
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
~ Madame de Stael
The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
~ Maria Semple
You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
~ Marianne Williamson
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
~ Mark Twain
Our passion is and should always be to make life better.
~ Martha Stewart
What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.
~ Mary Lou Retton
Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.
~ Max Lucado
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
~ Al McGuire
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
~ Alanis Morissette
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
~ Anita Baker
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
~ Annie Dillard
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
~ Anthony Hopkins
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
~ Arthur Ashe
When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.
~ Bob Richards
In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
~ Brandi Carlile