Quotes about motivation

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on motivation
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Laird, Donald on motivation
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"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Landor, Walter Savage on motivation
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"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

Lubbock, Sir John on motivation
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"I usually need a can of beer to prime me."

Mailer, Norman on motivation   

"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 on motivation   

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

Nightingale, Earl on motivation   

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

Olajuwon, Akeem on motivation   

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

Pope, Alexander on motivation   

"Don't spur a willing horse."

Proverb on motivation   

"It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats."

Proverb, Russian on motivation   

"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 on motivation   

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

Richards, Bob on motivation
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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

Richter, Jean Paul on motivation
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"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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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 on motivation
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"I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities."

Robinson, John on motivation   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on motivation   

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

Ryun, Jim on motivation
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"Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!"

Schmelling, Max on motivation
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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 on motivation   

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

Smith, Francie Larrieu on motivation
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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 on motivation
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"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

Thackeray, William M. on motivation
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"Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power."

Thomas, Paul G. on motivation
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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 on motivation   

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

Unknown, Source on motivation   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on motivation
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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 on motivation   

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

Wesley, John on motivation   

"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 on motivation   

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

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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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 on motivation
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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on motivation   

"what you work hard for may become the sweetest thing in life"

Unknown on motivation   

"Don't talk about it...Do it!"

Burcham, Brion on motivation   

"Get ready for tomorrow, Today."

Jvongard on motivation   

"Become a pilot of a money plane, conductor of a fashion train or driver of drop head music at the end of the day you can become something you dreamed of reality is within your reach, Don't Dream Drive to your goal. Become Someone."

Jvongard on motivation   

""If you don't do it, it won't get done. And if you don't do it now, you probably won't do it at all. Motivation must defeat procrastination. This is a good time to get started." "

Pinckney, Patrick on motivation