Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Motivation

1.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

3.

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

Laird, Donald

4.

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

5.

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

Ryun, Jim

6.

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

7.

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

Herbert, Jack

8.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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

Schmelling, Max

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

17.

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

Green, Russel

18.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

23.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

24.

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

25.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

27.

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

Richards, Bob

28.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

30.

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

Gothard, Bill

31.

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

32.

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

Ditka, Mike

33.

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

34.

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

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

38.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

39.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

40.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Davies, Peter

43.

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

Wesley, John

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Fink, David Harold

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

49.

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

50.

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

Foster, John W.