Quotes About Motivating People

#1. 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

#2. Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.

Bear Bryant

#3. Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Frank Herbert

#4. Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

John C. Maxwell

#5. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

Jon Krakauer

#6. I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

Eric Thomas

#7. 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

#8. I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#9. I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Rick Pitino

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

John C. Maxwell

#13. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair

George Monbiot

#14. 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

#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. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Donny Deutsch

#17. People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more...

Assegid Habtewold

#18. Top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people ...

Buck Rodgers

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

Gabriela Sabatini

#24. 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

#25. Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.

Sarah Lacy

#26. That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Jamie Bell

#27. To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.

Clayton M Christensen

#28. People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

Jonathan Sadowski

#29. Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

#30. The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

Sally Quinn

#31. It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.

Ariel Pink

#32. 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

#33. Most people who stay do it because they're afraid to leave, and most people who leave do it because they're afraid to stay. If you stop and think about it you'll find that fear is the motivating factor for most decisions people make in their lives

Tawni O'Dell

#34. As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Peter Shilton

#35. The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Peter L. Bernstein

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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