Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Smith, Francie Larrieu

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Gothard, Bill

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

Foster, John W.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Wesley, John

18.

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

19.

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

Green, Russel

20.

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

21.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

25.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

27.

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

28.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

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

Gillies, Jerry

30.

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

Herbert, Jack

31.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

35.

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

Yeats, William Butler

36.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

37.

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

Ryun, Jim

38.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

39.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

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

41.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

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

Robinson, John

43.

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

44.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

48.

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

49.

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

Fink, David Harold