Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Schmelling, Max

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Davies, Peter

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Schmelling, Max

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Confucius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Foster, John W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Wesley, John

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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.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Robinson, John

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Richards, Bob

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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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When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.