Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal. — Arsene Wenger
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. — Lou Holtz
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken
Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in your networks — James H. Fowler
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Time Management Motivation Quotes
The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area. — Brian Tracy
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. — Dee Hock
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. — Jim Rohn
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important. — Stephen Covey
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. — Jim Rohn
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. — Robert Foster Bennett
You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall. — Jim Rohn
. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . . — Buck Rodgers
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind. — Stephen Covey
Management Quotes
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. — James Connolly
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be. — Charles Spurgeon
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell. — Shams Tabrizi
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Stress Management Quotes
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye
When we meditate regularly, we view our stresses and problems with a lot more clarity. With practice, we become detached observers. We start to understand that there's a lot of self-generated noise that exists entirely in our own minds. — Rangan Chatterjee
If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable. — Naval Ravikant
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
My 50-year-old self is going to say chill out, relax, don’t stress so much. — Naval Ravikant
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg
Cold is a stressor, so if you are able to get into the cold and control your body’s response to it, you will be able to control stress. — Wim Hof
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
That’s what stress management is about, that’s what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby — any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. — Marilu Henner
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. — Jonathan Sacks
A good night of sleep depends on a good day of wakefulness, including exercise, sensible eating, minimal alcohol, stress management, and setting boundaries. — Peter Attia
What Is A Motivation Quotes
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. — Nelson Mandela
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. — Farley Mowat
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. — Viola Spolin
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. — John C. Maxwell
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
Work Motivation Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
I learned early on that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and the business will take care of itself. — Glen Bell
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well. — Eric Yuan
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers. — Horst Schulze
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform. — Ricardo Semler
Career Motivation Quotes
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Personal Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Self Motivation Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. — Colin Powell
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words. — Henry Mintzberg
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external. — Stephen Covey
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. — Mark Gonzales
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois
Build what you want to see in the world. — Jack Dorsey
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions. — Stephen Covey
Be the trouble you want to see in the world. — Joey Comeau
The old and the young, the white and the black all managed to step outside of themselves to find something to believe in. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation. — Misty Hyman
Willpower. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest. Willpower must be managed. — Gary Keller
A Gallup study found that when people leave their companies, 65 percent of them are actually leaving their managers. — Michael Abrashoff
He opened the Premier League to the world in a different level to what any other manager has done. — Mikel Arteta
I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager. — Harry Kane
Managing is a skill, not a prize. — Rand Fishkin
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. — David Allen
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!' — Jim Rohn
Wisdom makes things possible. Gratitude makes things bearable. Hope makes things manageable. Joy makes things pleasurable. Love makes things wonderful. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. — Cherie Carter-Scott
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team. — Clayton Christensen
Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team. — Rocky Bridges
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth
The best fighter is never angry. — Lao Tzu
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. — Lee Iacocca
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. — Elizabeth I
With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. — Doc Childre
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people. — Peter Drucker
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