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Quotes About Motivation

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
~ James Monroe
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
~ Edward Bernays
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
~ Abraham Maslow
Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday
~ J. Cole
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
~ Thomas Sowell
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
~ Drew Bundini Brown
Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
~ Darius I
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The only reason men fail is because of broken focus
~ Mike Murdock
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
~ Saint Augustine
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
~ Stuart Pearce
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
~ Jose Rizal
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
~ Francis Kelley
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
~ Farley Mowat
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.
~ Steven Brust
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
~ Alexis Carrel
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
~ Pythagoras
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
~ Casey Stengel
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
~ Charles M. Schwab