If you have enough why, you will find a way how.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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.

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.

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.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.