Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Herbert, Jack

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Wesley, John

11.

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

12.

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

Nightingale, Earl

13.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

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

Laird, Donald

16.

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

17.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

18.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

19.

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

Robinson, John

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Gilbert, Ken

25.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

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

Richards, Bob

27.

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

28.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

29.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

35.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

36.

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

Gothard, Bill

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

46.

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

47.

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

Foster, John W.

48.

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

Green, Russel

49.

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

Ryun, Jim

50.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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