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Inspirational Quotes for Business and Work: Motivation
Motivation Quotes

By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com

Looking for an inspirational quote or a business quotation for your newsletter, business presentation, bulletin board or inspirational posters? These motivation quotes are useful to help motivation and inspiration. These quotes about employee motivation will help you create success in business, success in management and success in life.

Quotations About Motivation

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people." --Lee Iacocca

"The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different." --Rick Pitino

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

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." --Donald Trump

"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." --John Maxwell

"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning." --Pat Riley

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar

"The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it." --Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." --Mario Andretti

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." --J. B. S. Haldane

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." --Stephen R. Covey

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