Top 100 Quotes About Motivating
#1. I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.
Jason Statham
#2. Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
Bear Bryant
#3. In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
Natalie Massenet
#4. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice
Kate Morton
#5. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
Herman Cain
#6. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.
Joshua Ferris
#7. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.
Steven B. Sample
#8. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
Donny Deutsch
#9. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.
Madonna Ciccone
#10. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Kristin Hunter
#11. Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes
#12. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.
Karen Lewis
#13. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
#14. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.
Tony Dorsett
#15. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
John McCain
#16. I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.
Mike Weir
#18. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.
Steve Knox
#19. I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
Katie Couric
#20. But I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the great cultural conversation because I had not been initiated into the mystery.
Carlene Bauer
#21. I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
Joel Osteen
#22. NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
Buzz Aldrin
#23. My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.
Jennie Garth
#24. Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.
George Barna
#25. I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate ... but I don't have ... a central cause ... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be ... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.
Jennifer Beals
#26. The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.
Cheryl Richardson
#27. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair
George Monbiot
#28. All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.
Thorne Smith
#29. Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.
Eraldo Banovac
#30. Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.
Edwin Meese
#31. Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#32. Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister
Tony Blair
#33. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.
Richard Branson
#34. If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
Sheryl Crow
#35. You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman
#36. The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.
Robert B. Cialdini
#37. When I look at all the people that I have working for me and the company I've started and all the people that benefit from it and have a living because of it, it's very motivating to continue to do it.
Chelsea Handler
#38. The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.
Larry Flynt
#39. I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.
Luke Evans
#40. I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
Leander Paes
#41. The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#42. There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
Daley Thompson
#43. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
Shawn Johnson
#44. The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.
Peter L. Bernstein
#45. I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.
Paul Bloom
#46. I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
Dominique Dawes
#47. I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
Marian Wright Edelman
#48. Leading people is the opposite of trying to control them; it's about gaining their trust through your integrity, developing their potential through your partnership, and motivating them through your affirmation.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#49. Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.
Linda Barnes
#50. My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
Mr. T
#51. Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
Matt Bomer
#52. [Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.
Kent Hovind
#53. Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?
David Boudia
#54. As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
Jon Miller
#55. The project manager accomplishes this goal through planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve goals.
D. Williams
#56. The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.
Judith Curry
#57. The happiest times in our lives are times when we are thinking the most motivating, intelligent and productive thoughts.
Nicki Joy
#58. Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.
Dominika Cibulkova
#59. If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.
Isabel Dos Santos
#60. The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#61. Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.
Lisa McMann
#62. Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
John C. Maxwell
#63. I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray
Jelena Jankovic
#64. You are a message to the world make sure it is motivating.
Nadair Desmar
#65. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on
that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.
Nicholas Sparks
#66. If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Kim Kardashian
#67. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#68. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.
Anna Stevens
#69. You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.
Jillian Michaels
#70. I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.
Jean Dujardin
#71. People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more...
Assegid Habtewold
#72. When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.
Josh Brolin
#73. I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Andre Agassi
#74. Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.
Derek Parfit
#75. There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.
Prince
#76. Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
Colin Powell
#77. You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
Stone Gossard
#78. Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.
Robert Kiyosaki
#79. The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
John C. Maxwell
#80. I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.
Yusef Lateef
#81. It's always exciting to be a part of the development and creative process, and I hope to continue to do it. I feel like, especially in the comedic world, it's how things have to be done. You have to be a part of the motivating factor of getting the movie made. It's so hard.
Anna Faris
#82. To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.
Michael Nutter
#83. Last, you've got to do more leading and less managing. Be a visible and motivating presence.
Rob Roy
#84. NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil Armstrong
#85. A button machine makes buttons, no matter what the power used, foot, steam or electricity. They, no matter what the motivating force, death, love or God, made jokes.
Nathanael West
#86. Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
Madi Diaz
#87. I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.
Brendan Daly
#88. Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message.
Amanda Bernardo
#89. What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
Gabriela Sabatini
#90. A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.
Bob Kauflin
#91. I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.
Rick Pitino
#92. Why building self esteem?. The benefits of having self esteem are numerous. Self esteem is strongly associated with happiness, psychological resilience, and a motivating to live a productive and healthy life.
Glenn R. Schiraldi
#93. We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.
Troy Vincent
#94. Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.
John Wooden
#95. Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.
Reid Scott
#96. Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all,
Thomas Lee
#97. What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
Joseph Campbell
#98. Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
Vincent Bugliosi
#99. Broker looks at Zeb, 'How about a fancy, motivating speech?'
Zeb grunts and moves past him.
'That'll do,' says Broker. 'For a moment I thought you would bring me to tears...
Ty Patterson
#100. Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force
Jenny Holzer
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