Motivation Quotes

In your roughest time, when everything looks so cloudy and deserted, don't look to man, don't look to a woman, don't look to government, don't look to Obama, don't look to Merkel, don't look to wall street, don't look to your family, don't look at your situation either, take off your eyes away from all those things that are so close to you; take it to Him that is bigger than your problem.

~ Patience Johnson

Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see God, sorry no unclean thing shall see heaven. Poverty is a disgrace to God. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. You can be free, you can perform a miracle if you are a born again. I do not mean Church goers.

~ Patience Johnson

Poverty I am too beautiful to be like you. Sickness from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet, I belong to God.

~ Patience Johnson

You can never experience peace until you tell the devil that you are a child of God. CNN or BBC won't do that for you. My bible says if I should say to this mountain, let thou be removed. It didn't say if I should fall, cry or fail but if I should say.......

~ Patience Johnson

It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A message from God... If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself Exactly as I see You... And I See You as Perfection and of Immeasurable Importance.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Love Me Even More when I Seem Least Deserving... For That is the Very Moment That I Am Most in Need of Your Love.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Only Light can drive away the shadows, Darkness can never be diminished by more darkness.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

If I could tell the world just one thing... We are ALL OK, not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless anyway. We must not be made useless, must not worship the idol of despair... We must gather ourselves in faith for it is Light that the darkness does most fear. We are Eternal and NEVER broken. We must fall upon our knees in prayer, that We might be God's Hands... We are ALL OK.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

When carefully examined… I recognize that the Greatest things that have ever occurred in my Life could not have happened if not built upon ruins of the most difficult things that had occurred in my life. And in this recognition I find myself fully Grateful for the totality of my existence.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Through sincere Thankfulness, the incredibly difficult struggles of my yesterday, have been transformed into the“Good ol’ Days” upon which I can now Peacefully reflect .

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Upon waking this morning… What if all that remained were the people and things for which I had expressed Gratitude the day before? I shudder to think of all that would found to be missing.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Once I began taking inventory of ALL I was Grateful for, the warehouse I had packed with notebooks listing all I lacked became obsolete.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

I'm grateful for the dark shadow that is constantly following me... It reminds me always of the Loving Light that shines upon my face.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

I'm Thankful in the knowledge that EVERY moment of this Life has happened For Me...Not one moment has happened TO me.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

If Gratitude were a tree in a Bountiful orchard...Grace would be it's Seed bearing fruit.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

An abundance of thinking leads to me, me, me.An abundance of Thanking leads to YOU, YOU, YOU!

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

As I count my blessings, I feel God's Loving Hands touching each of them.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Moderation in all good things of this mortal world, however there must be no Spiritual moderation... Devotion to our lovingFather in Heaven must never be of moderation.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself As I See You.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Faith in God's Loving Kindness has truly been attained when both gain and loss bring the same degree of Gratitude.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Gratefulness is feeling the Love of God in everything He has given us - God has given us everything. Each breath ever drawn was a gift of His Love.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

True Forgiveness has been accomplished when you find yourself Thankful for the experience.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

I never speak from a place of perfection, for I have mastered no Spiritual matter, or worldly either, I speak only because I am seeking with all my Soul to consistently improve and progress, to be a bit more worthy this second than I was the last, And only desire to share my travels and ponderings, for as I share, even more is learned. Please take none of my words as judgement, for I am and never have been in a position to judge. Still a reminder... I have mastered none, I am still learning...It's good to have goals.

~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don't want to do. And if I lose, I'm one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I'm going to win or lose until the last second.

~ Allie Brosh

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

~ C.s. Lewis

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

~ Terence Mckenna

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

~ Louise L. Hay

Life's short. Live passionately.

~ Marc A. Pitman

Because I always feel like runningNot away, because there is no such placeBecause if there was, I would have found it by nowBecause it's easier to run,Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't runBecause running will be the way your life and mine will be described,As in the long runOr as in having given someone a run for his moneyOr as in running out of timeBecause running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for thatBecause I will be running in the other direction, not running for coverBecause if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for itNot running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fearBecause the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,Not without showing the fear as I see it nowBecause closer, clearer, no sir, nearerBecause of you and because of that niceThat you quietly, quickly be causingAnd because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running thenYou'll know thenBecause I'm not going to tell you now

~ Gil Scott-Heron

There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

~ Jane Nelsen