Motivational Poems

Poetic Motivation at its Finest

Motivational poems are another weapon to add to your arsenal of self motivation techniques. Better yet, poems often touch emotions and places within us that truly inspire, motivate, encourage, and nourish our souls. The poems here have been collected with great care. Enjoy!

Principles to Live By

At Set of Sun

If you sit down at set of sun

And count the acts that you have done,

And, counting, find

One self-denying deed, one word

That eased the heart of him who heard,

One glance most kind

That fell like sunshine where it went -

Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day,

You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay -

If, through it all

You've nothing done that you can trace

That brought the sunshine to one face -

No act most small

That helped some soul and nothing cost -

Then count that day as worse than lost.

George Eliot

Poem 2:

For This Is Wisdom

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live,

To take what Fate, or the Gods, may give,

To ask no question, to make no prayer,

To kiss the lips and caress the hair,

Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow -

To have, - to hold, - and, - in time, - let go!

Laurence Hope

Poem 3:

John Wesley's Rule

Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poem 4:

With Every Rising of the Sun

With every rising of the sun

Think of your ilfe as just begun.

The past had shriived and buried deep

All yesterdays - there let them sleep.....

Concern yourself with but today,

Woo it and teach it to obey,

Your wish and will. Since time began

Today has been the friend of man....

You and today! a soul sublime

And the great pregnant hour of time.

With God between to bind the twain -

Go forth I say - attain - attain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox