Quotes About Motivation

if a student ever states that he is dead, the right answer is, "No, you aren't dead! I don't give you permission to die. I don't train people to die. I train them to live!

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change

You have to reach the point that what people think is not your primary motivator. Reaching the goal is the motivator.

If you as a leader allow people to halfway do their jobs and don't demand excellence as a prerequisite to keeping their job, you will create a culture of mediocrity.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.

La Rochefoucauld once said, "The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education or talent every time. I prefer to have both, but given a choice I will take passion. La Rochefoucauld once said, "The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Goals Must Have a Time Limit Goals without a time limit are unable to be broken down into micro goals to measure your progress, to observe your traction. You might say, "I want to write a book." Great, when? In twenty years? In twenty months? If you don't put a deadline on the goal it will never happen and you will get to eat the bitter fruit of regret.

When leadership sets the goals by themselves they are not goals, they are quotas. And no one likes quotas.

Dreaming also has a negative connotation as well. Some people dream and stop there. They never do anything about making their dreams come true.

In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

The accountability of a group environment causes people to change their behaviors.

Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn't the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don't do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.

Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

When are we motivated to distract ourselves from unpleasant and worrisome thoughts? When we're not facing a clear and present danger. When the chips are not down. When the babbling of our cerebral cortex, rather than the self-defense of our amygdala, is center stage.

Admission to the school of self-inquiry is dependent rather on our motivation, willingness, and effort to explore the inner dimensions of our being.

the expectation of receiving a reward will transform the nature of the sacrifice.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.