Reading Motivation Quotes & Sayings

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing. — T.K. Naliaka

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better. — Danny Brassell

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. — Aman Jassal

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads. — Carla H. Krueger

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader. — Aman Jassal

Can you imagine a world without books to read? — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. — Carla H. Krueger

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book. — Aman Jassal

The world of books captured my heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

The more you read, the more you will love to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own. — Kelseyleigh Reber

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. — Jazz Feylynn

Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head. — S.A. Tawks

At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write." — Elliot Perlman

The stories I read, strengthen my spirit in any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books — Lailah Gifty Akita

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! — Denise Walter McConduit

If there's one overarching theme in "Guys Read", it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be. — School Library Journal

So, at a minimum, our educational systems must be retooled to maximize these needed skills and attributes: strong fundamentals in writing, reading, coding, and math; creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration; grit, self-motivation, and lifelong learning habits; and entrepreneurship and improvisation - at every level. The — Thomas L. Friedman

It is the spirit of the poets that gives the soldiers strength to fight. — Casting Crowns

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She is the force, that you end up
reading about in thick novels. She is
the kind of woman, you adore,
for being so content with messy hair.
She is the kind, who would
decline whatever the mankind would exalt-
and redesign everything that is
inclined to remind her
of how strongly, the society wants her confined.
To this girl, on a romantic date,
he asked the question inaccurate-
"Honey, why do you always take the road
that is so untold, hard and loathed?"
She thought of giving him a second chance,
and resisting any anger-loaded advance,
She replied, "Why do you speculate,
that I choose my fate,
imagining there are two roads? — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. — Aman Jassal

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do
or else you are undone forever. — Thomas Brooks

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books? — Gabrielle Zevin

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. — Aman Jassal

As Stephen Krashen and Joanne Ujiie (2005) assert, "Many people are fearful that if children engage in 'light reading,' if they read comics and magazines they will stay with this kind of reading forever, that they will never go on to more 'serious' reading. The opposite appears to be the case. The evidence suggests that light reading provides the competence and motivation to continue reading and to read more demanding texts" (p. 6). — Donalyn Miller

Reading gives liberty to your mind. — Aman Jassal

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure. — Atwood H. Townsend

The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat. — Padma Venkatraman

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince. — Emily Levine

A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a sculpture in some distant country. The idea is highly sophisticated, drawing together the complexities of motivation in individual psychology, the social environment, and also the unseen world. Idols are not just on pagan altars, but in well-educated human hearts and minds — Richard Keyes

And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens. — Victor Villasenor

Your life is a book. Everyone could read it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. — Chloe Thurlow

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you read,the eager you read many more. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

We live to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life. — Wallace Stegner

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future. — Carl Sagan

A life without books is empty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The journey of life can be travel through experience and reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Drop everithing and read. — Emma Roberts

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books. — Aman Jassal

Books are sacred wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily memorise one passage of Scripture. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes...). We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. — Marina Keegan

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes. — Aman Jassal

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage. — Mette Hjort

Education stimulates self-study. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Printed works do not take up mental space simply by virtue of being there; attention must be paid or their content, whether simple or complex, can never be truly assimilated. The willed attention demanded by print is the antithesis of the reflexive distraction encouraged by infotainment media, whether one is talking about the tunes on an iPod, a picture flashing briefly on a home page, a text message, a video game, or the latest offering of "reality" TV. That all of these sources of information and entertainment are capable of simultaneously engendering distraction and absorption accounts for much of their snakelike charm. — Susan Jacoby

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. — Jason Ellis

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too. — Robert A. Caro

You can develop positive mindset with reading of awe-inspired writings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is a wonderful wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. — Aman Jassal

Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Scriptural determinism" sounds like an arcane academic paradigm, but it is deployed by nonacademics in a consequential way. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as Americans tried to fathom the forces at work, sales of several kinds of books rose. Some people bought books about Islam, some bought books about the recent history of the Middle East, and some bought translations of the Koran. And of course some bought more than one kind of book. But people who bought only translations of the Koran were showing signs of scriptural determinism. They seemed to think that you could understand the terrorists' motivation simply by reading their ancient scriptures - just search the Koran for passages advocating violence against infidels and, having succeeded, end the analysis, content that you'd found the essential cause of 9/11. — Robert Wright

The greatest adventure is reading! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading a good book keeps me awake all night. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your kids sift through books that interest them. — Melanie Kirk

I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. — Teresa Mummert

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours. — Sylvia McNicoll

If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. — Jonny Greenwood

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. — Zig Ziglar

Motivation is more like a skill, akin to reading or writing, that can be learned and honed. Scientists have found that people can get better at self-motivation if they practice the right way. The trick, researchers say, is realizing that a prerequisite to motivation is believing we have authority over our actions and surroundings. To — Charles Duhigg

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. — Carla H. Krueger