Quotes About Motivation

Create a Sense of Urgency.

John P. Kotter

Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.

Without short-term wins, too many employees give up or actively join the resistance. Creating

Empower Others to Act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so. Encourage others to remove barriers and make true innovation happen.

reducing complacency and increasing urgency they had taken exactly the right first step in potentially saving the colony.

Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling of faith, and to change behavior.

Human beings are sometimes slaves to the ugly and weak sides of human nature," he told employees. "However, if you set high goals for yourselves and every day continue to reflect on them, step by step you will be more focused and make yourself a better human being, becoming a happier person for it.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve, through a positive mental Attitude. --Napoleon Hill

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.

Don't waste another day of your life.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

The aim of leadership is not to demonstrate the superiority of the leader, but to bring out all the strengths of people that will move them forward to the desired goal.

Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works." So the motive at stake is not simply whether you want your acts to be known by others, but why you want them to be known—that God be glorified, or that you be admired.

self-interest is not the same as selfishness.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

People have said to me, 'Well, if you ran you might get more speaking appearances, and you could sell another book.' Frankly, that's the last thing on my mind. If I get in, I'll get in to win.

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune