Motivational Quotes

Motivation

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Foster, John W.

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

Confucius

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Holtz, Lou

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Brown, Les

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

Laird, Donald

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herbert, Jack

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

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

Green, Russel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ryun, Jim

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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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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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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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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.