Inspirational Quotes on Motivation

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

“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.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”

“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”

“You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.”

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes”

“People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.”

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

“If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

“People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.”

“He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.”

“As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God.”

“Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”

“If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.”

“Religion is what you do with your solitude.”

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”