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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
- Landor, Walter Savage
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Best Quotes about Motivation

1.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?
Nightingale, Earl

2.
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.
Green, Russel

3.
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Bushnell, Nolan

4.
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

5.
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
Gilbert, Ken

6.
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Drucker, Peter F.

7.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Richter, Jean Paul

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
Yeats, William Butler

12.
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Brown, Les

13.
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

14.
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Laird, Donald

16.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
Fink, David Harold

18.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Ryun, Jim

19.
We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.

20.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Ziglar, Zig

21.
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

22.
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

23.
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Ditka, Mike

24.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Riley, Pat

26.
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.

27.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Pope, Alexander

28.
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
Boetcker, William

29.
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

30.
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
Olajuwon, Akeem

31.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Landor, Walter Savage

32.
Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
Herbert, Jack

33.
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.
Robinson, John

34.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.
Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.
Thackeray, William M.

37.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.
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

40.
Don't spur a willing horse.
Proverb

41.
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
Mailer, Norman

42.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Foster, John W.

43.
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.

44.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Holtz, Lou

45.
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

46.
Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
Thomas, Paul G.

47.
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
Smith, Francie Larrieu

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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