Quotes About Motivation

Hey, Kyle—when you're playing a game like Sorry and you get bumped back three spaces, do you usually quit?" "No. If I get bumped, I play harder because I know I need to find a way to get back those three spaces and pull ahead of the pack.

Intelligence is not mandatory for business or creative success. It helps, but determination and enthusiasm are more important.

The teacher's job is to challenge the student to release their own potential.

It was clear that only a handful of banks would emerge as winners in our changing, consolidating industry. And the winners likely would be those whose employees could take risks and innovate, who could work smoothly on teams and motivate colleagues, and who could not only cope with change but also spur change. In short, leadership would separate the winners from the losers.

all leadership begins with self-leadership.

se mantenían convencidos de que el rendimiento de la más alta calidad se obtenía cuando los individuos y los equipos apuntaban más alto.

I've always believed that the only reason for salespeople to read this book is to accelerate their success strategy.

The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.

The author contrasts leadership styles he describes as wholesale and retail. The whole sale leader rallies groups to an overriding vision, and to him individuals are interchangeable. The retail leader knows everyone's details and uses personal touches to motivate.

Chris Matthews

The fact that you wish to become extremely successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such. Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is what do you need to become?

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

YOU GONNA STAND THERE WITH YOUR BUTT ON THE BACK OF YOUR BODY OR ARE YOU GONNA GET IN ON THIS, BEEF?

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!

The other coach encouraged me to go for it. I took two of my kids and had one belay me. Halfway through, the rest of the team drove up and were cheering me on. It wasn't the time to do Shadow Boxing, but I was climbing well, the conditions changed in a positive direction, and I had all that support. I made it.

Climbing gyms came to be seen as a good place to hang out and get fit in an encouraging environment.

Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

When I wanted to quit smoking cannabis a few years ago and found that I couldn't do it under my own steam I went in search of a self-help book to show me the way. Annoyingly all I could find were books on how to cultivate the damn stuff. So to exact my revenge on the world of publishing I decided to one day write that book myself.

No, working hard isn't a problem in and of itself, but Mr. Davis always says that the first Pillar of Success is to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than the goal you achieve.

But a man who values nothing is hardly alive at all.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?