Motivational Quotes

Motivation

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

- Bushnell, Nolan

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Herbert, Jack

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

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

Wesley, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Confucius

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

Green, Russel

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Brown, Les

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

Robinson, John

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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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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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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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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

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

Olajuwon, Akeem

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

Fink, David Harold

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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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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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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