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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers. -- Bear Bryant
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
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. -- Lee Iacocca
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. -- Jimmy Dean
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. -- John C. Maxwell
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. -- John Cleese
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. -- Ralph Steadman
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating. -- Katie Couric
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. -- Bill Gates
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
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business. -- Rupert Murdoch
There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream. -- Dan Gable
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
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
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
Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
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
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
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
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
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. -- Camille Paglia
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
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem. -- Madeleine Albright
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. -- Lionel Messi
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
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments. -- Henry B. Eyring
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives. -- Jack Canfield
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. -- Jack Canfield
What is ultimately motivating the character? -- Matt Bomer
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force -- Jenny Holzer
Guilt is the major motivating force in my life. -- Linda Barnes
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. -- John Lennon
Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. -- Morton Blackwell
Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you? -- David Boudia
We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now. -- Troy Vincent
When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor. -- Josh Brolin
You are a message to the world make sure it is motivating. -- Nadair Desmar
If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating. -- Stacy Lewis
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution. -- Oliver Stone
. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . . -- Buck Rodgers
Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment. -- Diego Maradona
Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles. -- Ted Malloch
What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people. -- Gabriela Sabatini
I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career. -- Rick Pitino
And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed. -- Donny Deutsch
Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. -- Shawn Johnson
The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble. -- Peter L. Bernstein
My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together. -- Jennie Garth
If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me. -- Pauletta Pearson Washington
Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure. -- Lisa McMann
Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential. -- John C. Maxwell
Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. -- Frank Herbert
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair -- George Monbiot
Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life. -- Joseph Murphy
If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place? -- Sheryl Crow
I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. -- Luke Evans
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating. -- Katie Couric
The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace. -- Cheryl Richardson
As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating. -- Jon Miller
What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior. -- Al Ries
I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark. -- Paul Bloom
When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side. -- Scott D. Anthony
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life. -- Jennifer Elisabeth
When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating. -- Hannah Kearney
The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. -- Sara Blakely
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. -- Denis Waitley
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
The motivating factor behind God's redemptive plan for every man and woman is His love for us. He not only loves us, He so loves us! -- O. S. Hawkins
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. -- Kevin Costner
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
Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling. -- Seamus Dever
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
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
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
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
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
[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
...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
One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder. -- John Wooden
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
It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life. -- Nick Baylis
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
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
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
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. -- Condoleezza Rice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do. -- Eckhart Tolle
One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good. -- John Wooden
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
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life." -- Jim Rohn
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
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. -- Daniel Goleman
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
When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film. -- Sergio Leone

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