Motivation Quotes

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

~ Charles Murray

God can communicate to us through powerful feelings. They have an energy that impels us to action. They grip our mind and will not let us go. What is calling you? What has the voice of God been whispering to you through the desires of your heart? To what are you drawn and constantly compelled to do? It could be that God is opening the eyes of your heart to see something that no one else is seeing, and to do something that others aren’t doing. If that is true, then move forward and let God worry about the how.

~ Tom Payne

We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.

~ Matt Perman

Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don’t ignore that voice to follow rules that don’t fit. When a jacket doesn’t fit anymore, it’s time to donate it. Same principle applies for rules which no longer serve you. You don’t have to curse the rules or condemn them. In fact, there might be someone else who would benefit from them at the exact moment you no longer need them. Just step into all that you can be and all that you can do.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

~ Os Guinness

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

~ Anthony Liccione

Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece. Ray Mancini.

~ Ray Mancini

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

~ Joseph Bottum

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

~ Germany Kent

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stand firm. Stand tall.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will be all that I am capable of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

~ Abiola Abrams

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

~ Paulo Coelho

How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.

~ Abiola Abrams

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

~ Ryan Lilly

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day I wake up and re-commit to my health. This is a very important step for me. I let the past be the past. I try not to dwell on the mistakes I've made, because those kinds of thoughts only bring me down. I wake up every day with the thought that this is a new day. That today I am going to eat well, I am going to exercise, and I'm going to focus on being healthy and happy.

~ Stephen Cremen

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

~ Rob Liano

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

~ Juls Amor

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

~ Aristotle

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know...

~ Gino Norris

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

~ Dannika Dark

Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.

~ Allie Brosh

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

~ Donald L. Hicks

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.

~ Auliq Ice

Use the ruins of your failure to build a bridge to success.

~ M. Osman Baalbaki

Motivate yourself by failure, to achieve bigger things than you thought possible at first.

~ Micha Van Randen

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.

~ Noel Dejesus

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

~ Noel Dejesus

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.

~ Noel Dejesus

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.

~ Noel Dejesus