Motivational Quotes

Motivation

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

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

2.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Yeats, William Butler

6.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Gothard, Bill

8.

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

Gillies, Jerry

9.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

10.

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.

11.

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

Wesley, John

12.

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

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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

Ditka, Mike

15.

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

Gilbert, Ken

16.

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

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Robinson, John

22.

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

Foster, John W.

23.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

24.

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

Ryun, Jim

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

28.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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

Green, Russel

31.

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

32.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

35.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

40.

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