Quotes About Motivation

It's human; we all put self interest first.

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

What drives history is the human ambition to alter one's condition to match one's hopes.'3

Unfortunately I'm one of those people who writes better when they're unhappy.

There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; "Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

CARLY PHILLIPS There is no substitute for hard work, i.e., sitting down at the computer and writing no matter what you feel like doing instead.

Ronnie was actually right to push me toward returning to work. At least I would be exposed to more interesting people, events and conflicts. It wasn't difficult to raise the level over what I had now.

You wanted to know how I did it? That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

You've got to be a prose professional, get out of bed every morning and say, what is pressing on my nerves? You've got to come out of your trap every morning life you are equal to your times.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

Churchill's post-war bodyguard, Ron Golding, who was an RAF squadron leader in 1940, recalled, 'After those speeches, we wanted the Germans to come.

Without all this self-control, do you think I could have done all I've done?33

I wanted learning and I wanted funds. I wanted freedom. I realized there was no freedom without funds. I had to make money to get essential independence;

The old saying has it that when we promote our best salesman and make him a manager, we ruin a good salesman and get a bad manager. But if we think about it, we see we have no choice but to promote the good salesman. Should our worst salesman get the job? When we promote our best, we are saying to our subordinates that performance is what counts.

The most important role of managers is to create an environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in the marketplace. Fear plays a major role in creating and maintaining such passion. Fear of competition, fear of bankruptcy, fear of being wrong and fear of losing can all be powerful motivators.

The single most important task of a manager is to elicit peak performance from his subordinates. So if two things limit high output, a manager has two ways to tackle the issue: through training and motivation.

Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

When the need to stretch is not spontaneous, management needs to create an environment to foster it.

if we want to cultivate achievement-driven motivation, we need to create an environment that values and emphasizes output.

You cannot stay in the self-actualized mode if you're always worried about failure.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

In fact, if indicators are put in place, the competitive spirit engendered frequently has an electrifying effect on the motivation each group brings to its work, along with a parallel improvement in performance.