Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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.

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Laird, Donald

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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

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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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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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Jones, E.E.

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

18.

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

22.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Schmelling, Max

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Green, Russel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Foster, John W.

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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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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 ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Ditka, Mike

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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Wesley, John

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