Quotes About Motivation

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

All great men are partially inspired.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Dreams are what keep a man going.