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Quotes About Motivation

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
~ J. P. Morgan
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
~ Cory Booker
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
~ Jim Rohn
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
~ David Walker
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
~ Peter Drucker
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
~ Jack Welch
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
~ Howard Gardner
The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.
~ Ralph Nader
Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~ John C. Maxwell
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
~ John Harvey-Jones
Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.
~ Alan Keith
Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
~ George E. M. Kelly
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
~ James MacGregor Burns
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
~ Christine Lagarde
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
~ Tom Izzo
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done
~ Vance Packard
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
~ David Gergen
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
~ Colin Powell
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
~ D. Wayne Lukas