Motivational Quotes

Motivation

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Richards, Bob

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Confucius

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

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

Green, Russel

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Robinson, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laird, Donald

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Richter, Jean Paul