Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Wesley, John

Best Quotes about Motivation

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robinson, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Gillies, Jerry

No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Confucius

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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.

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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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

Ryun, Jim

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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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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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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

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Green, Russel

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Richards, Bob

43.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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Don't spur a willing horse.

Proverb

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

Fink, David Harold

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