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Quotes About Motivation

Do the thing and you will have the power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiring passion and action—this is the test of true preaching. True preaching is practical—concerned with day-to-day living in light of the soul. It's focus is not on the distant past or an imaginary future, but on the here and now.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non essere spinto dai tuoi problemi. Lasciati guidare dai tuoi sogni.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.
~ Ram Dass
If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.
~ Ram Dass
Satan has obvious motives for fueling our denial of eternal punishment: He wants unbelievers to reject Christ without fear; he wants Christians to be unmotivated to share Christ; and he wants God to receive less glory for the radical nature of Christ's redemptive work.
~ Randy Alcorn
Satan need not convince us that Heaven doesn't exist. He need only convince us that Heaven is a place of boring, unearthly existence. If we believe that lie, we'll be robbed of our joy and anticipation, we'll set our minds on this life and not the next, and we won't be motivated to share our faith. Why should we share the "good news" that people can spend eternity in a boring, ghostly
~ Randy Alcorn
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.' 
~ Randy Alcorn
Lead a large group of people—to consistently take a few simple actions—over a sustained period of time.
~ Randy Gage
Reward is much more effective than punishment. If we want to encourage changes in someone's behavior, we are more likely to succeed by focusing on their positive actions than by criticizing their negative behavior.
~ Randy J. Paterson
Boredom is the opposite of learning. When a game stops teaching us, we feel bored.
~ Raph Koster
Do not store dreams in ur eyes, they may roll down with ur tears.. Store them in ur heart that each heart beat will inspire u 2 fullfill them ......
~ Ravi Singh
Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.
~ Ravi Zacharias
knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Why are we so eager to prove to the world that we are the best at what we do and care not for why or who we are? How
~ Ravi Zacharias
I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
~ Ray Bradbury
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
~ Ray Bradbury
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
~ Ray Bradbury
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..
~ Ray Bradbury
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
~ Ray Bradbury