Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Robinson, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

10.

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.

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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ryun, Jim

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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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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

18.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

21.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Davies, Peter

25.

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.

26.

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

Wesley, John

27.

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

Richards, Bob

28.

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

Foster, John W.

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

37.

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

Green, Russel

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

Laird, Donald

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

42.

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

Schmelling, Max

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

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

46.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Gillies, Jerry