Quotes About Job Motivation

#1. It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

Frederick Herzberg

#2. Be the light and source of inspiration that others see

Sunday Adelaja

#3. People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.

Homaro Cantu

#4. Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer

Sunday Adelaja

#5. If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.

Vladimir Alexandrov

#6. I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success ... victory; it has my complete focus.

Spuds Crawford

#7. No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.

Matthew T. Cross

#8. True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Frederick Herzberg

#9. Maybe our job in life is to help
a person run a little farther,
to try a little harder,
to not give up.

Phil Mitchell

#10. When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

#11. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

#12. The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#13. It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Lou Holtz

#14. Create the job, we wish to have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

James Toney

#16. Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

Rick Scott

#17. Use your passion to create a job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Martin Yan

#19. As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

Liam McIntyre

#20. The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

Peter Murphy

#21. We have a job to do. After the fight, I'll love him.

Manny Pacquiao

#22. Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

Charles H. Percy

#23. Climbing is this long term, lifelong journey. It's really important to just take your time with it and keep it fun. I've seen a lot of people burn out because it starts becoming this job for them. It stops being fun. For me, it's been really important to keep it enjoyable. Listen to your motivation.

Chris Sharma

#24. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you

Sunday Adelaja

#25. There is more competition to achieve a job, but very less competition to achieve the glory.

Amit Kalantri

#26. Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

Clayton Christensen

#27. Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Joanie Connell

#28. I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.

Mark Wahlberg

#29. I will wholeheartedly perform my holy duties.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. If all work and no play makes you dull,
Then you're on the wrong job.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#31. What a great pleasure to work for your living?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. 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

#33. Understand that to achieve success in your efforts, you must try to be reliable and on time for everything -your job, dinner parties, doctor appointments- everything.

Dianna DeLonzor

#34. Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Dee Williams

#35. He who loves his job, will own it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.

S.A. Tawks

#37. If you have job, be grateful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Brian Tracy

#39. I love it when people tell me you can't. For the very moment they say you can't, they challenge the "I can" that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done.

Bien Sufficient

#40. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

Kato Lomb

#41. Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Ameya Agrawal

#42. Imagining success can be a great motivation technique. The more you view yourself as successful, the better you will feel about yourself and the job at hand. Focusing on the positives can breed success.

Andy C.E. Brown

#43. Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

Paul Sereno