Famous Quotes about Motivation (74 Quotations)

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear.

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

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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.

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.

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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

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

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.

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

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.