Motivation Quotes

The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.

John Jay Osborn Jr.

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore—does that ruin the romance?

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Abigail Van Buren

Because it's there.

G. H. L. Mallory

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

When the flag is unfurled all reason is in the trumpet.

Ukrainian proverb

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke which should never be used except in necessity.

Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Napoléon Bonaparte

What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

Eleanor H. Porter

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.

Cicero

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.

When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor

What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Barbara De Angelis

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

François de La Rochefoucauld

It's so hard when I have to and so easy when I want to.

Sondra Anice Barnes

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star you don't bother with other things.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

John F. Milburn

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

Saint Augustine

If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

Edgar Watson Howe

Hardships poverty and want are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of man.

Bradford Merrill

Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

I praise loudly I blame softly.

There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

Selma Lagerlöf

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you they will honor and serve you.

What you praise you increase.

Catherine Ponder

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

Ouida

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

Henry Ward Beecher

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

T.S Eliot

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