It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

A reward once given becomes a right.

You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Spring is the Period Express from God.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Always remember that, every time you step out of your comfort zone, you step into God's comfort zone.

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don't need people to tell me that.