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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ryun, Jim

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Richards, Bob

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Foster, John W.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Green, Russel

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Wesley, John

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laird, Donald

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Confucius

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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

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

Schmelling, Max

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Pope, Alexander