Top 100 Motivate People Quotes
#1. I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.
Gabe Polsky
#2. You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
James C. Collins
#3. Entrepreneurial employees possess what eBay CEO John Donahoe calls the founder mind-set. As he put it to us, People with the founder mind-set drive change, motivate people, and just get stuff done.
Reid Hoffman
#4. I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
John Liu
#5. You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
Lou Holtz
#6. MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well.
Dan Ariely
#7. There are many ways to motivate people to do things, but loyalty comes from the ability to inspire people.
Simon Sinek
#8. The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
Bill Hybels
#9. I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.
Mr. T
#10. If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#11. I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.
Richard Dawkins
#12. A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Jack Welch
#13. It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
Magnus Scheving
#14. I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.
Common
#15. You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.
Brad Feld
#16. You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
Seth Godin
#17. That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.
Pharrell Williams
#18. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Tom Peters
#20. People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.
Rick Santorum
#21. Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.
Gregory Palamas
#22. It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.
Sheri L. Dew
#23. Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
Alfie Kohn
#24. I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.
Chris Froome
#25. Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?
Libba Bray
#26. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Scott Adams
#27. If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.
Art Briles
#28. I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.
Stefano Pessina
#29. Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.
Martina Navratilova
#30. I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.
Josh Peck
#31. 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
#32. In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.
Judith M Bardwick
#33. I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.
Jason David Frank
#34. It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.
Neal Asher
#35. Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
Walter Isaacson
#36. Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker."
"What are you going to motivate people to do?"
Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.
Libba Bray
#37. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca
#38. The next two sources of influence that routinely act on you are equally easy to spot. The people who surround you both motivate and enable your habits.
Kerry Patterson
#39. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you
Sunday Adelaja
#41. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.
Tom Platz
#42. God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you'll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.
Joel Osteen
#43. The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!
Daniel H. Pink
#44. Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
Herman Cain
#45. Revenge was an odd thing it could motivate a person like nothing else. It was my opinion that people who lacked motivation in life had a deficit of revenge. That wasn't my problem, though.
When it came to revenge, I had an abundant surplus.
Nicole Williams
#46. A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
Eckhart Tolle
#47. Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
Robert Johnson
#48. Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#49. Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.
Elizabeth Mckenzie
#50. If there is a great white throne judgment in which all unbelievers are going to be judged and sentenced to an eternity in hell, shouldn't that motivate us right now to share Christ with as many people as possible?
Robert Jeffress
#51. That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!
Kurtis Blow
#52. This project is so important because it's going to create an environment to inspire people. The RIBA believes that here in the UK we can design buildings and places that bring out the very best in people and motivate them. There is a real desire to see this project happen.
Ruth Reed
#53. I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.
Vincent Tan
#54. The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
Ben Morton
#55. I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
Tyler Perry
#56. We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.
Kenneth Lay
#57. You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
Eric S. Raymond
#58. Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#59. The best way to motivate other people to help YOU fulfil your goals is to help them fulfil THEIR goals
Deepak Chopra
#60. When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.
Lakshmi Mittal
#61. If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.
Jag Randhawa
#62. I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.
Charles Schwab
#63. People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves
Mr. T
#64. Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond
Arsi Nami
#65. I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
S. Truett Cathy
#66. The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
Vicente Fox
#67. Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.
Joel Osteen
#68. Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
Edward L. Bernays
#69. Money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered ... Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself
Margaret Heffernan
#70. Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#71. if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don't need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.
James C. Collins
#72. I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.
Jennifer Lopez
#73. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
#74. Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?
Jon Jones
#75. Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul ...
Thomas Kinkade
#76. We also have a new motivation to battle with sin: we're no longer under law, but under grace. This is counterintuitive. People think that law and legalism will best motivate us to strive to do what's right. But it's grace that enables us to live for God. "For
Tim Chester
#77. When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.
Richmond Akhigbe
#78. I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel ... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing.
Volker Bertelmann
#79. Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
Jim Rohn
#80. People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold.
Billy Mills
#81. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
Akio Morita
#83. Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
Lynsey Addario
#84. If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
Steve Gleason
#85. If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
John C. Maxwell
#86. Quotes help us understand , inspire , motivate ,clarify and show our approach to things around , this is why people and I love quotes
Takyou Allah Cheikh Malaynine
#87. The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue. These
Brian Tracy
#88. There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.
Ronda Rousey
#89. My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.
Debbi Fields
#90. I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
Magic Johnson
#91. You can't worry about what other people think you should do. The only way you'll ever be happy or make a real difference is by pursuing the things that motivate you and make you excited to be alive. Life is too short to waste years of it being miserable or asking 'What if?
Dana Bate
#92. Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
Iyanla Vanzant
#93. All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
Peter Thiel
#94. The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino
#96. Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.
Troy Polamalu
#97. We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
Wendy Kopp
#98. We need more people like Bill Phillips in the world. People who live each day with a passion to help other people. The kind of person who will motivate you beyond what you thought was possible and the kind of person who will celebrate your success with you.
Robert Cheeke
#99. One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
Brian Tracy
#100. You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs ...
Anthony Scaramucci
