Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Gothard, Bill

Best Quotes about Motivation

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wesley, John

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ryun, Jim

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Laird, Donald

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

Holtz, Lou

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Richards, Bob

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

Robinson, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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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 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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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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