Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Robinson, John

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Brown, Les

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Davies, Peter

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Herbert, Jack

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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.

Hitopadesa

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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 usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Green, Russel

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

Richards, Bob

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

Foster, John W.

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

Schmelling, Max

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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Wesley, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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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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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

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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