Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Motivation

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

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.

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

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

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Gilbert, Ken

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

Laird, Donald

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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Richards, Bob