You're the only one who can do it permanently.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.