Quotes about Motivation

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others. You cannot produce consistently on a level higher than your leadership. In other words, your leadership skills determine the level of your success-and the success of those who work around you.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.

Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

Believe in the value of others. Carlisle said, "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man." The value you place on people determines whether you are a motivator or a manipulator of men.

The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.

Most people want to hear or tell a good story. But they don't realize they can and should be the good story. That requires intentional living.