Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Ryun, Jim

Best Quotes about Motivation

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gothard, Bill

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

Holliwell, Raymond

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Green, Russel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Laird, Donald

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Foster, John W.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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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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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

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

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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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 usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.