Quotes About Motivation

Stephen R. Covey

He saw creating the 7 Habits not primarily as a means to his own success, but as an act of service.

our son's "socially impressive" accomplishments were more a serendipitous expression of the feelings he had about himself than merely a response to social reward.

By working on knowledge, skill, and desire

Sandra and I believe that our son's "socially impressive" accomplishments were more a serendipitous expression of the feelings he had about himself than merely a response to social reward.

I will be a self-starting individual who exercises initiative in accomplishing my life's goals.

Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action. It's the ability to see beyond our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to become what we not yet are. It gives us capacity to live out of our imagination instead of our memory.

And to be effective, that statement has to come from within the bowels of the organization.

beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you're not being driven by everything that happens to you. You have a sense of mission about what you're trying to do and you are excited about it.

Nietzsche: "He who has a 'why' can live with any 'what.'" Dr. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: our body, our mind, and our spirit. But his deepest conviction is that most—not all—diseases originate in the spirit. That is, in a sense of meaninglessness, a sense of hollowness, a sense of purposelessness. No mission. No vision.

There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.

Stand apart from your dreams. Look at them. Wrestle with them until you're convinced they're based on principles that will bring results. Then use your creative imagination to explore new applications, new ways of doing things that have the principle-based power to translate dreaming into doing.

ingenuity, his resourcefulness. PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.

It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

El poder de comprometernos con nosotros mismos y de mantener esos compromisos es la esencia del desarrollo de los hábitos básicos de la efectividad

Stephen R. Covey

leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves

define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Stephen R. Covey

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

definición del liderazgo: enseñaba que liderazgo es comunicar la valía y el potencial de los demás con tanta claridad que se inspiren para verlo en ellos mismos.

It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.