Motivation Quotes

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

Daily, Why, Often

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Success, Goal, Desire

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn

Education, Someone, Him

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

Time, Game, Basketball

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem

Music, Long, Down

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne Dyer

Work, Try, Learn

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raymond Chandler

Attitude, Ability, Capable

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Attitude, Ability, Capable

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono

Powerful, Simple, Important

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz

Simple, Motivated, Eliminate

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump

Money, Game, Real

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

Enough, Order, Obstacles

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward

Friday, Paycheck

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Love, Human, Reality

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

Character, Actor, Wants

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Bo Bennett

Creativity, Excitement, Enthusiasm

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Winning, Champion, Needs

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey

Human, Learn, Beings

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Power, Control

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
Bob Nelson

Her, Result, Manager

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry

Good, Confidence, Game

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

Work, Everything, Him

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

Started, Habit, Keeps

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Success, Goal, Desire

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

Attitude, Winning, Win

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
LeBron James

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts

Love, Writing, Same

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
Julia Roberts

Life, Good, Understand

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
William J. Clinton

Education, Everything, Economy

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