Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

2.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

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

Robinson, John

5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

9.

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

10.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Gothard, Bill

17.

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.

18.

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

Gillies, Jerry

19.

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

Richards, Bob

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

Herbert, Jack

23.

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

24.

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

Foster, John W.

25.

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

Fink, David Harold

26.

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

Laird, Donald

27.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Davies, Peter

29.

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

30.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

32.

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

Green, Russel

33.

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

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

36.

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

Ditka, Mike

37.

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.