Quotes About Motivation

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Leadership is the dream made reality.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.