Motivational Quotes

Motivation

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

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Motivation

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

Thomas, Paul G.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Boetcker, William

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

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Mailer, Norman

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Richards, Bob

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Laird, Donald

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

Wesley, John

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu

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

Confucius

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Green, Russel

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

Schmelling, Max

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fink, David Harold

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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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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 talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ryun, Jim

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Riley, Pat

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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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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Pope, Alexander

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No one does anything from a single motive.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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.