Quotes About Motivation

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.