Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Gilbert, Ken

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gothard, Bill

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Richards, Bob

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Green, Russel

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

Robinson, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Fink, David Harold

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Laird, Donald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Drucker, Peter F.