Motivational Quotes

Motivation

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Holtz, Lou

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

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

12.

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

Gillies, Jerry

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

19.

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

Fink, David Harold

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wesley, John

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Laird, Donald

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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

30.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

Ditka, Mike

32.

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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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

Richards, Bob

35.

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

Herbert, Jack

37.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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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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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.

48.

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von