Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Ryun, Jim

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

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

2.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

3.

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

Nightingale, Earl

4.

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

Foster, John W.

5.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

6.

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

Ditka, Mike

7.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Green, Russel

10.

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

Gothard, Bill

11.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

12.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

13.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Herbert, Jack

18.

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.

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

21.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

Yeats, William Butler

23.

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

Gillies, Jerry

24.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

25.

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

Wesley, John

26.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Davies, Peter

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

33.

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

Ryun, Jim

34.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Gilbert, Ken

38.

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

39.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

40.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

41.

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

Laird, Donald

42.

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

Fink, David Harold

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

Richards, Bob

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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

Robinson, John