Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Confucius

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Gillies, Jerry

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Foster, John W.

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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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

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Pope, Alexander

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The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.

Tigner, Hugh Stevenson

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

Herbert, Jack

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wesley, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Laird, Donald

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

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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.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schmelling, Max

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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Robinson, John