Motivation Quotes

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

— Dwight Eisenhower

"Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development."

— Ted Ward

"Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable."

— Ordway Tead

"Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers."

— Mick Delaney

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. It is good business to have an employee feel part of the entire effort . . . ; I motivate people, I hope, by example—and perhaps by excitement, by having provocative ideas to make others feel involved."

— Rupert Murdoch

"When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'."

— Bob Schieffer