Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Richards, Bob

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

Confucius

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Laird, Donald

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

15.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

21.

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

Schmelling, Max

22.

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

Foster, John W.

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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'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

25.

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

Green, Russel

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

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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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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

31.

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Thomas, Paul G.

33.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

35.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Fink, David Harold

39.

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

Herbert, Jack

40.

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Gothard, Bill

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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

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

50.

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.