Motivational Quotes

Motivation

No one does anything from a single motive.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Foster, John W.

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

Fink, David Harold

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Laird, Donald

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Gilbert, Ken

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

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wesley, John

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

Ryun, Jim

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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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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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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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