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
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Day by day, what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust. — Bob Burg
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. — Jeffrey Gitomer
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. — Henry Ford
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Max Eastman
Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals. — Robert Kiyosaki
Basketball Team Motivation Quotes
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. — John Brady
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. — Rick Pitino
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
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
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
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
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
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
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
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
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
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
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
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
Football Motivation Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic — Peyton Manning
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
Positive Motivation Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
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
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
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
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
Team Building Inspiration Quotes
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. — Patrick Lencioni
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. — Patrick Lencioni
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel
Inspirational Team Building Quotes
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust. — Dennis F. Kinlaw
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. — Lawrence M. Krauss
You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play. — Herb Brooks
Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success. — Meghan Markle
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Allan Fromme
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. — Bahá'u'lláh
Building strong relationships and connections with your team is essential for effective leadership. — Michael Abrashoff
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. — Chris Hadfield
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
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself. — Jocko Willink
No individual can win a game by himself. — Pele
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill
Day by day, what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. — Patrick Lencioni
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. — Robert Schumann
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
I can’t even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me. — Holly Holm
That’s how a team works. You help the people around you, and everybody’s better off for it. — Michael J. Massimino
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. — Brett Favre
Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success. — Meghan Markle
A single leaf working alone provides no shade. — Chuck Page
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden
I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special. — Peggy Whitson
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
It goes without saying, marketing teams should take a step back, rethink their marketing strategies, and become as regular as clockwork across social media platforms. — Vladimer Botsvadze
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. — Jeffrey Gitomer
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall
My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years. — Peggy Whitson
Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust. — Bob Burg
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano
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