Quotes & Sayings About Motivation Leadership

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Entrepreneurship is about freedom, financial freedom but it also about what you leave behind.
Guibert Englebienne, Co-founder of Globant — Kevin Kelly

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions. — J. Richard Hackman

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them. — Kamal Ravikant

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there. — Noel DeJesus

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. — Roy T. Bennett

Be the light and source of inspiration that others see — Sunday Adelaja

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day. — Noel DeJesus

Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world. — Jon Meacham

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. — Laozi

While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one. — David Pietrusza

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs. — Tim Tebow

One need to be inspired, to inspire. — Krishna Sagar

Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached. — Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility — Binye Vincent

Let out your heat!
Unleash your imagination
Let the burning fragrance of your unimpeachable imagination
sparkle through the morning's you.
At night, let the stoical sweat of your day ease your muscles
Relax your feet.
You will need them to walk again tomorrow — Priscilla Koranteng

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

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble. — George F. Will

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

Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes. — Steve Goodier

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. — Roy T. Bennett

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness. — Philip Zaleski

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function. — David Halberstam

You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself. — Noel DeJesus

The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere. — Troy Jackson

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip. — Frank Herbert

He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes. — Robert A. Caro

Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them! — Israelmore Ayivor

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. — Debashis Chatterjee

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice. — Noel DeJesus

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently. — Harold Holzer

Believe you can and you will be halfway there. — Lolly Daskal

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows. — Tom Peters

Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality. — James MacGregor Burns

One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired. — Eric Schiffer

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame. — Brandi L. Bates

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities. — Roy T. Bennett

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been. — Noel DeJesus

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated. — Noel DeJesus

The Practising Manager's Growth Mantra

-Growth in an enterprise is created through remarkable achievements, not incremental achievements like efficiency or effectiveness.

-Remarkable achievements are possible only in complexity.

-Only volitional engagement can work in complexity. Luckily, there is no certainty in complexity. Hence, motivational engagement cannot work.

-People who make choices based on the purpose can only be volitionally engaged - they are the growth managers, the leaders. — Amit Chatterjee

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. — Roopleen

For him (JFK) as he imagined of the British aristocracy, policies were less important than character traits such as dignity, courage, and honor. They did not pose as angry young men, but brought an almost lighthearted approach to politics. The very idea of politics invigorating society rather than dominating society very much appealed to Kennedy. — Scott Farris

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves. — David Halberstam

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it. — Walter Isaacson

There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician! — Robert Anthony Kerr

Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world — Roger James Hamilton

Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

He is a trouble causer who acts without intent. In other words, living on purpose means you must act with known intent. Develop an objective sense that asks the why questions as you pull out action thoughts. Why do I want to do this? Why do I want to do it now? Why do I want to stop this? Why do I want to enter into this agreement? Why do I want to change? You will discover that when you have a known intent, you have enough motivation to sustain the success of your decision. — Archibald Marwizi

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. — Rick Perlstein

People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre. — Frank Sonnenberg

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now. — Noel DeJesus

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Life's short. Live passionately. — Marc A. Pitman

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response. — John P. Kotter

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences. — John Paul Warren

Motivation is the desire to do things. It's the difference between staying in bed and getting up in the morning. It's the crucial part of setting and achieving goals. — Graham Speechley

Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run. — Ryan Lilly

Perfecting your character isn't a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation. — Orly Wahba

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth? — Noel DeJesus

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too. — Robert A. Caro

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss. — H.W. Brands

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day. — Noel DeJesus

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. — Richard Brookhiser

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist. — William Allen White

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone. — Ameya Agrawal

Everything depreciates, except time. — Noel DeJesus

Leaders don't need a path. They make one. — Tim Fargo

When You Seek to Stay in Your Natural Flow of Vitality That is When Your Magical Moments Appear — Runa Magnus

Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic. — Del Suggs

Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you. — Janna Cachola

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy. — David Halberstam

You will fail, and when you do it's imperative that you not hope for things to get easier, but instead harness a desire for you to be better. — Noel DeJesus

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal. — David Halberstam

Never base motivation or fear, entirely. — Peter Heather

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing. — Jag Randhawa

Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did. — Charles Murray

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. — John Paul Warren

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world? — Steve Jobs

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me. — Noel DeJesus

Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why? — Abhishek Ratna

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you. — Matt Chandler

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. — Harold Holzer

The more you respond to change externally, the more solid you need to be internally. — Todd Stocker

You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things. — Graham Speechley

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it. Devon Brooks — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xcdeptional Execution

Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms. — Christopher Babson

World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough. — Steve Siebold

New beginnings can be painful ends. What your attitude is changes ends into new beginnings. — Maurice Duffy

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally — Kevin Kelly

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course. — Ryan Lilly

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others — John Ferling

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives. — Andrew Roberts

Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha