Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Schmelling, Max

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Confucius

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

Gillies, Jerry

18.

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Robinson, John

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Wesley, John

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Green, Russel

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

Laird, Donald

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

Richards, Bob

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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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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

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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 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

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foster, John W.

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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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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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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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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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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