Quotes About Motivation

Your people are a mirror of your attitude. If you have a poor attitude, you can't expect your people to be upbeat.

Your attitude is contagious.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

Attitude is altitude.

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Enjoyable work is creative work,

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

But only by making workers into thinkers and doers will firms inspire workers to excel.

To maximize return on investment is an inadequate statement of purpose. It fails to accomplish the paramount responsibility of leadership—to provide meaning and inspiration to those who are expected to follow. The mass of people within our corporations are not primarily motivated by maximizing private gain. Many firms are structured as if they were….

write, write or die.

Considering his tuberculosis it isn't hard to understand why Nakamura Sensei was motivated to search for firsthand knowledge, but we may not feel the same burning motivation. We, after all, aren't about to die. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is delusional. We are going to die. We

We can act on our dreams or keep dreaming

Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.

There are reasons for everything we do.

WOLLNER: I killed them because they were evil people. BAUSEN: Evil? WOLLNER: Evil people. BAUSEN: Was that the only reason? WOLLNER: It's reason enough.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Rewards are most helpful and more enjoyable when they are unannounced in advance, when they come as a surprise, when they represent recognition and appreciation. Promises: