Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

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

Ryun, Jim

2.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

3.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

4.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

5.

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

Richards, Bob

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Gothard, Bill

10.

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

Green, Russel

11.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

12.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

13.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

15.

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

16.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Davies, Peter

22.

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

Herbert, Jack

23.

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

Wesley, John

24.

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

25.

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

Gilbert, Ken

26.

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

27.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

28.

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

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Ditka, Mike

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Fink, David Harold

36.

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

Gillies, Jerry

37.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

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

Foster, John W.

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

46.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.