Quotes About Motivation

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

You are just lazy, lazy, and lazy people just can't get ahead in life. Of course some of you are even retarded, and that is even worse than being lazy. But we know you can't help being retarded.

Effective team leaders work creatively with each team member to ensure they understand the following issues: Why this task is important to the organization. Why this team task is important to them personally. Why they (their role) are important to the team. Who the other team members are and why they are important to the mission of the team.

Purpose not only calls the team together but, like glue, holds the team together during the inevitable turbulence the team will experience on its journey.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

He dreamed big dreams - impossible dreams they told him. Then he moved heaven and earth to make his dreams come true. When you, as a leader, start with a vision, then communicate that vision to the people you lead, utilize your people skills to motivate and inspire them, maintain your character and integrity at every decision-point, command with competence, lead with boldness and confidence, and support your people with your serving heart, your vision will become your reality.

The great secret is this: it is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

the first thing is that a leader needs to be able to assemble and have a disciplined team. That discipline supports the whole team. It's the work ethic; it's the constant facts and analysis, constantly delving into it.

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

It's strange that we still believe in inspiration when, compared to earlier ages, we seem to believe in so little. Inspiration may be the one bit of God we haven't managed to kill off.

Let Charles Schwab say it in his own words: "The way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.

The one major factor that motivated people was the work itself. If the work was exciting and interesting, the worker looked forward to doing it and was motivated to do a good job.

who have the most influence over others and get them to model the behavior you want to promote.

Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

Professor Overstreet's wise advice: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

How do you think it affected his view of what he could achieve and his level of devotion to the success of his team?

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.

Considero —dijo Schwab— que el mayor bien que poseo es mi capacidad para despertar entusiasmo entre los hombres, y que la forma de desarrollar lo mejor que hay en el hombre es por medio del aprecio y el aliento.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.