Quotes About Motivation

People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards.

He declared he never stepped in front of the footlights without first saying to himself over and over: I love my audience. I love my audience.

Tell your child, your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve.

We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.

TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE Principle 1—Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Principle 2—Give honest and sincere appreciation. Principle 3—Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

Jos teitä potkitaan ja arvostellaan, muistakaa, että niin tehdään usein siitä syystä, että potkija saa siitä tietynlaista tärkeyden tunnetta. Se merkitsee monesti, että saatte aikaan jotakin ja olette huomion arvoinen. Useat ihmiset saavat raakaa tyydytystä siitä, että loukkaavat niitä, jotka ovat sivistyneempiä kuin he tai menestyvät paremmin.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

we all crave appreciation and recognition, and will do almost anything to get it. But nobody wants insincerity. Nobody wants flattery. Let

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

De modo que el único medio de que disponemos para influir sobre el prójimo es hablar acerca de lo que él quiere, y demostrarle cómo conseguirlo.

Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

Eveillez d'abord un ardent désir chez la personne que vous voulez influencer... Celui qui en est capable a le monde avec lui, celui qui ne l'est pas reste seul.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. To become a more effective leader of people, apply…     Principle 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

I have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

business to be paid a salary of over a million dollars a year

Primero, despertar en la otra persona un franco deseo. Quien puede hacerlo tiene al mundo entero consigo. Quien no puede, marcha solo por el camino.

The average person," said Samuel Vauclain, then president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, "can be led readily if you have his or her respect and if you show that you respect that person for some kind of ability." In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain aspect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics.

liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it—and he will practice until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that inspired Dickens to write his immortal novels. This desire inspired Sir Christoper Wren to design his symphonies in stone. This desire made Rockefeller amass millions that he never spent! And this same desire made the richest family in your town build a house far too large for its requirements. T

we cannot instantly change our emotions just by "making up our minds to" but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.