Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Holtz, Lou

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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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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 champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Ryun, Jim

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Confucius

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

Green, Russel

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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Robinson, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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