Motivational Quotes

Motivation

Don't spur a willing horse.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Ryun, Jim

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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

4.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

5.

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

6.

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

Robinson, John

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

10.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

11.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

12.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

13.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

15.

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

Gillies, Jerry

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

30.

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

Richards, Bob

31.

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

Laird, Donald

32.

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

Wesley, John

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Schmelling, Max

35.

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

Confucius

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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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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

38.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

40.

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

Green, Russel

41.

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

Fink, David Harold

42.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

43.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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