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

1.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

2.

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

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

Gillies, Jerry

5.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

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

Foster, John W.

13.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

14.

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

Schmelling, Max

15.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

16.

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

Fink, David Harold

17.

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

Gothard, Bill

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

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

Ditka, Mike

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Gilbert, Ken

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

24.

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

25.

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

Green, Russel

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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

27.

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

Robinson, John

28.

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.

29.

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

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

33.

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

34.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

36.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Davies, Peter

37.

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