• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 91 reads

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

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 61 reads

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• NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it prov

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 95 reads

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• No one does anything from a single motive.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 120 reads

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• 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

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 45 reads

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 75 reads

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

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 194 reads

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

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 200 reads

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

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.0 · 40 votes · 200 reads

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

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 104 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 11 votes · 87 reads

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

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 65 reads

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 78 reads

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• What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 65 reads

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• Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 89 reads

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• You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 52 reads

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