Diverse Motivations Quotes

The inclinations of men differ according to their varied dispositions; and each one in his calling has his particular end in view

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.