Quotes About Motivation

Todo el que aspire a ser un gran líder ha de lucirse a la hora de vender sus ideas y aspiraciones

I always felt that the trick was to celebrate our triumphs without for a moment losing the edge and depth of desire that had taken us there. I just wanted to be on my guard that victories weren't seen as auto matic guarantees of future success, and that celebrations did not sow the seeds of complacency.

There's some merit in getting defeated even though I'd never want it to be a habit. Team members who are hungry for victory and take great pride in their performance will be eager to avenge defeat.

a display of temper is more effective if used sparingly. I just don't believe that you can get the most out of people if they are perpetually afraid of you.

Nobody had ever explained to me that working with, and through, others is by far the most effective way to do things - assuming, of course, that they understand what you want and are keen to follow. I gradually began to understand that this is the difference between management and leadership.

It was to set very high standards. It was to help everyone else believe they could do things that they didn't think they were capable of. It was to chart a course that had not been pursued before. It was to make everyone understand that the impossible was possible. That's the difference between leadership and management.

Anyone who aspires to be a great leader needs to excel at selling his ideas and aspira tions to others. Sometimes you have to persuade people to do things they don't want to do, or to sell them on the idea that they can achieve something they had not dreamed about.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.

Faced with the need to confront a player who had performed below our expectation, I might have said: That was rubbish, that.' But then I would follow it up with, 'For a player of your ability. That was for picking them back up from the initial blow. Criticise but balance it out with encouragement. 'Why are you doing that? You're better than that.

I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

1. We choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand. 2. We choose to visualize what's possible to deal with the situation at hand. 3. We choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

Pablo Picasso said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

On what principle are we to awake the sleeper? In the name of what shall the flabby personality, magnetised by trifles, be inspired, be made discontented with its present way of life of railways, telegraphs, newspapers and cheap goods? Individuals do not step out of the ranks because there is not the occasion. For whom, for what, or against whom are they to come forward? The absence of energetic men is not a cause but a consequence

If the first moment of the day fails to stir you, you are no longer fit to command.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.

The opening trick to becoming is to convince yourself that you already are

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.