Motivational Quotes

Motivation

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Wesley, John

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

Robinson, John

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Ryun, Jim

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

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

Green, Russel

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Davies, Peter

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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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

11.

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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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Laird, Donald

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

Gothard, Bill

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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 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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

42.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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