Motivational Quotes - Famous Top 100
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Quote of the day September 6th, 2010
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius |
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| A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. PAT RILEY |
| A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. BILL GOTHARD |
| A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. RUSSELL GREEN |
| Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. MARY KAY ASH |
| 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 CHESTY PULLER |
| Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated? EARL NIGHTINGALE |
| Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. BLAINE LEE, THE POWER PRINCIPLE |
| Avoiding the phrase BO BENNETT, YEAR TO SUCCESS |
| Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. SYDNEY SMITH, THE WAY TO SUCCEED, W M THAYER, (PAGE 211), 1902 |
| Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. FINLEY PETER DUNNE |
| Don't spur a willing horse. PROVERB |
| 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. HENRY WARD BEECHER |
| Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power. PAUL G. THOMAS |
| I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. LEO ROSTEN |
| 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. TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS |
| I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. JOHN ROBINSON |
| I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn. JOHN WESLEY |
| 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. HOWARD STERN |
| I usually need a can of beer to prime me. NORMAN MAILER |
| I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. CONFUCIUS |
| If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. ROBERTO CLEMENTE |
| If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. THOMAS CARLYLE |
| If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. JOHANN VON GOETHE |
| It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. JOHANN VON GOETHE |
| It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. PROVERB |
| It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. JEAN PAUL RICHTER |
| It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. LOU HOLTZ |
| I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. AKEEM OLAJUWON |
| Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EXPERIENCE FROM ESSAYS: SECOND SERIES (1844) |
| Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. LES BROWN |
| Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it. MARGARET THATCHER |
| Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. DANIEL HUDSON BURNHAM |
| Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. JERRY GILLIES |
| Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER |
| Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. LEE IACOCCA |
| Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s. PETER DAVIES |
| Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. LOU HOLTZ |
| Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER |
| Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. JIM RYUN |
| Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY |
| No one does anything from a single motive. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| 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. HERMAN CAIN |
| 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. MAXWELL MALTZ |
| One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. JOHN W. FOSTER |
| Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results. ANON. |
| People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily. ZIG ZIGLAR |
| Recognition is the greatest motivator. GERARD C. EAKEDALE |
| Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset. JACK HERBERT |
| Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. HARRIET BRAIKER |
| The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER |
| The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. RAYMOND HOLLIWELL |
| The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. KEN GILBERT |
| 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. HUGH STEVENSON TIGNER |
| The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. FRANCIE LARRIEU SMITH |
| The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN, THE OLYMPIC CREED INSPIRED BY BISHOP ETHELBERT TALBOT, SPEECH, OLYMPIC GAMES 1908 |
| The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. MIKE DITKA |
| 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. RICK PITINO |
| The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. NOLAN BUSHNELL |
| The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. GEORGE SANTAYANA |
| There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE |
| There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES |
| There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. DALE CARNEGIE |
| 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. PAT RILEY |
| Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. W. M. L. JAY |
| To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. DONALD LAIRD |
| Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. ALEXANDER POPE |
| We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. PETER DRUCKER |
| 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. GEORGE SHEEHAN |
| We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others. SOURCE UNKNOWN |
| We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. FRAN |
| We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU |
| We talk on principal, but act on motivation. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. FRAN |
| What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| What we see depends mainly on what we look for. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK |
| Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN |
| Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent... |
| 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 |
| When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. EDWARD TELLER |
| Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. JOHANN VON GOETHE |
| Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose! MAX SCHMELLING |
| Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation. LEE J. COLAN, 7 DEFINING MOMENTS |
| You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! BOB RICHARDS |
| You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. WILLIAM BOETCKER |
| You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. DAVID HAROLD FINK |
| You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |
| You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. SCOTT SORRELL |
| You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES |