Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Gilbert, Ken

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

Brown, Les

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wesley, John

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Robinson, John

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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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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ryun, Jim

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Green, Russel