Motivational Quotes

Motivation

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Motivation

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Stern, Howard

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

Clemente, Roberto

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time. [When Surrounded By 8 Enemy Divisions During WW2]

Puller, Chesty

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

Holliwell, Raymond

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Laird, Donald

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Confucius

11.

We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.

12.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Davies, Peter

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A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.

Green, Russel

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Smith, Francie Larrieu

20.

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

Schmelling, Max

21.

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!

Richards, Bob

22.

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Olajuwon, Akeem

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Ryun, Jim

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Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

Wesley, John

28.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Pitino, Rick

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Nightingale, Earl

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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Cain, Herman

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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Ditka, Mike

33.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Brown, Les

34.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Sheehan, George

35.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

Robinson, John

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.

Hitopadesa

40.

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Herbert, Jack

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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Holtz, Lou

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A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Gothard, Bill

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When the administrator feels himself to be the sole driving agency, and finds himself chiefly engaged in arousing those who apathetic and coercing those who are antagonistic, there is something vitally wrong with the administration. An executive should find himself engaged chiefly in directing the energies which create themselves naturally in all parts of the business, and in finding the proper outlet for the eager upward striving of the ranks below.

Jones, E.E.

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Williams, Tennessee

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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.

Thomas, Paul G.

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The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.

Gilbert, Ken

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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.