Motivational Quotes

1. Management is nothing more than motivating other people." -Lee Iacocca

2."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

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

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

5."The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." -John Maxwell

6."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

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

8."The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it." -Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

9."Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt

10."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

11."I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." -J. B. S. Haldane

12."Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." -Stephen R. Covey

13. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. -John F. Kennedy

14. It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might. -Abraham Lincoln

15. Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other. -Ronald Reagan

16. Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed. -Mao Zedong

17. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. -John F. Kennedy

18. As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power. -Bill Clinton:

19. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. -Abraham Lincoln

20. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. -Georges Pompidou

21.America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. -Jimmy Carter

22. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

23. I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! -Woodrow Wilson:

24.If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty. -Francis Bacon

25. Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure. -Laozi

26.Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear. -Baruch Spinoza

 27.Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. -Bernard Baruch

28.Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli

29.Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. -Leonardo da Vinci

30.Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. -Havelock Ellis

31.Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero

32.The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.  -Confucius

33.Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' -Erich Fromm

34.The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead

35.Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. -Jefferson Davis

36.You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -Zig Ziglar

37.At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. -W. Somerset Maugham

38.Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Huxley

39.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. -Phillips Brooks

40.Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly

41.You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. -G. K. Chesterton

42.It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours. -Sam Ewing

43.A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes. -Edgar Watson Howe

44.To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. -Helen Rowland

 45.The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -Peter De Vries

46.A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. -Thomas à Kempis

47. O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast. -William Shakespeare

48.Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. -John Churton

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49.It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. -H. L. Mencken

50.It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. -Mark Twain

51.When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. -Kahlil Gibran

 52.If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion. -Elbert Hubbard

53.It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men. -Mae West

54.Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage. -Anonymous

55.Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -Jim Backus

56.You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Carmichael

57.To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. -E. Y. Harburg

58.Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. -Mason Cooley

59.A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. -John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

60.You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart. -Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

61.I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager. -Gene Mauch

 62.Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller. -Herb Kelleher

 63.Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. -Anonymous

64.Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. -Jean Cocteau

65.The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do. -Anonymous

66.When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. -Kevin Costner

67.Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.