Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Green, Russel

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Schmelling, Max

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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 ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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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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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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Confucius

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

Gillies, Jerry

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Ryun, Jim

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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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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Wesley, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Gilbert, Ken

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