Quotes About Motivation

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

Write while the heat is in you.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.