Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Gothard, Bill

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

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

Ditka, Mike

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

14.

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

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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Paul G.

27.

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

Brown, Les

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Gillies, Jerry

35.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robinson, John

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