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

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

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

Green, Russel

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

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

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

Foster, John W.

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

Fink, David Harold

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Richards, Bob

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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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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Laird, Donald

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Confucius

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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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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 simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Jones, E.E.

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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