Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Smith, Francie Larrieu

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Holliwell, Raymond

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Bob

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gilbert, Ken

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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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Laird, Donald

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

Green, Russel

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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Schmelling, Max

30.

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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Wesley, John

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

Robinson, John

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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.