Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Wesley, 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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Robinson, John

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

23.

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

Ditka, Mike

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Richards, Bob

26.

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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Davies, Peter

30.

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

Foster, John W.

31.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Green, Russel

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

Yeats, William Butler

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Herbert, Jack

40.

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 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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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Schmelling, Max

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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