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'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.

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.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

You put the life in your belly and you live.

Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.