Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Gilbert, Ken

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

Wesley, John

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Richards, Bob

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Herbert, Jack

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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

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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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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Laird, Donald

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Confucius

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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Brown, Les

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

Green, Russel

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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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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