Quotes About Motivation

The gap between intentions and actions is character.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!

When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

It's easier to teach a hungry person how to be sharp than it is to teach a sharp person how to be hungry.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.

The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.

If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

I got that good a contract because I really didn't want to make a film.

All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire.