Father Quote by Derek Prince

My father has been a motivation in my life, he always taught me to be a self-made man because he also started with nothing.

— Jubin Nautiyal

“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one…

— Eraldo Banovac

“Manifest plainness and embrace the genuine; lessen self-interest and make few your desires.”

— Lao Tzu

“The voices of self-reliance are many and deceptive. In some way, they greet you every day. Their deceptive whispers started in the garden and…

— Paul David Tripp

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” he wrote. “I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every…

— Huston Smith

“having a sense of autonomy and personal competence is profoundly motivating.22 It turns out that we perform better, and feel better about ourselves, when…

— Caroline Webb

“We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not…

— John Calvin