Demotivation Quotes

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

I really don't feel like playing anymore.

Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.

The more you do, the more attrition you experience.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

When you're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation?

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

You don't want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

High expectations are really intimidating.

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.

There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

I'm not terribly good at being around work I don't care about!

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.