#motivation

Do Something! I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because the rigorous schedule I had made for myself left me exhausted. Looking to not talk to the person next to me and simply endure the flight, I decided to open my newspaper and read about what was happening in the world. As I continued to read, it seemed that everywhere I looked there were stories of injustice, pain, suffering, and people losing hope. Finally, fueled by my tired, irritable state, I became overcome with compassion and frustration for the way things were. I got up and went to the bathroom and broke down. With tears streaming down my face, I helplessly looked to the sky and yelled to God. “God, look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God, how could you let this happen? Why don’t you do something?” Just then, a quiet stillness pacified my heart. A feeling of peace I won’t ever forget engulfed my body. And, as I looked into my own eyes in the mirror, the answer to my own question came back to me… “Steve, stop asking God to do something. God already did something, he gave you life. Now YOU do something! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspiration #making-a-difference #motivation #prayers #business

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#horizons #inspiration #life #motivation #travel

You can be desperate but do not be hasty. No city is built in a day ↗

— Justice Okafor

#motivational #inspirational

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#almost #been #blame #cases #children

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#bible #inspirational #living-life #motivational #reading

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#different #doing #expression #give #good

People who love us are the people who will listen and understand our juice expression, which supports our struggle, gently admonish us when we are wrong, forgive us when we fail, motivates us to optimize the potential and even more amazing is he celebrating our success as celebrating though. ↗

— Rifhi Siddiq

#inspirational #motivational #forgiveness

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#full #happiness #involves #power #talents

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#expect #few #hit #machine #put

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age