Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Davies, Peter

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

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

Wesley, John

2.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

3.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

4.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Ziglar, Zig

5.

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

Confucius

6.

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

Robinson, John

7.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

8.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Foster, John W.

9.

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

10.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

11.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

14.

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

15.

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

Yeats, William Butler

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Richards, Bob

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Gothard, Bill

22.

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

23.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

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.

25.

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

Davies, Peter

26.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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

28.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

29.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Gilbert, Ken

32.

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

33.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Ryun, Jim

39.

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

Ditka, Mike

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.

Fink, David Harold

43.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

44.

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

45.

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

Schmelling, Max

46.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Holtz, Lou

47.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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