Motivation

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" ~ Andrew Carnegie

I am never upset for the reason I think. ~ A Course in Miracles

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person. ~ Gail Devers

Motivating people-- the ingredient that separates winners from losers. ~ Bear Bryant

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ~ Mike Ditka

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. ~Rupert Murdoch

No man does anything from a single motive. ~ Samuel Coleridge

Mr. Scorpio says productivity is up 2%,and itís all because of my motivational techniques, like donutsóand the possibility of more donuts to come. ~ Homer J. Simpson

We only truly believe that which activates us. ~ Dick Hillis

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. ~ Dwight Eisenhower

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone. ~ George Carlin

"It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to." ~ Sondra Anice Barnes

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 what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryuh

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ~ Norman Augustine, IBD, 3/2/04

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ~ St. Teresa of Avila

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits--and extend them. ~ Richard Marcinko, Leadership Secrets

To be truly motivated, one must make personal commitments. ~ William G. Dyer