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How to Show Motivation in a Presentation [concept visualization]

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Do you need to explain the motivation concept? Do you know some interesting ways to capture certain facets of motivation through concept pictures? If you are uncertain, we can help! We gathered visualization ideas on how you can illustrate motivation in your presentation. 

If you want your audience to remember your message, add some motivational eye-catching graphics to make your slides look more persuasive. Let’s begin our digital journey and think about what is usually associated with the motivation concept.

Expressing the motivation concept ideas with outline style symbols

Above we suggest several icon examples from our elegant outline icons collection. In particular, our Outline PowerPoint Icons collection contains reward symbols and personal recognition graphics. Use them to make your presentation more engaged:

• trophy, win cup and medal as a motivating item by rewarding 
• carrot and stick as a metaphor for the use of a combination of reward and punishment
• ladder icon showing personal development e.g. getting to a higher position 
• hand with reward star highlighting personal recognition
• hands icon holding the diamond and win cup as helpful motivation tools by rewarding 

Design-neutral motivation concept graphics

Below there are icon examples from our style neutral flat icons collection. It features a variety of different approaches to representing motivation. Win cups, award stars, and diamond symbols often associated with motivation concepts.

• recognition symbols as stars and win cup
• male/female figure presenting a motivational speech
• a person with arrow icon illustrated a motivated person with rising morale

Unique hand-drawn motivation icons collection

If you want to be more creative and personal, use hand-drawn symbols for showing the executive summary ideas. The scribbled diamond or star icon, as well as the finish line, is perfect for showing the concept of motivation in your PPT. See the specific visuals below:

• star and diamond images as increasing motivation for the rewards and successes 
• money and dollar icons encouraging material motivation to win
• finish line as completion of the task or project 
• male/female figure holding an award star and present as a good motivation to succeed 

We hope you find some inspiration from those icon ideas to express the concept of motivation!

If you like the suggested icons, you can get them from infoDiagram library. The best way to get them is by  joining subscription access to PPT graphics here . It will allow you to download these symbols, and graphics from any presentation deck you find on the website.

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Motivation: The Driving Force Behind Our Actions

Kendra Cherry, MS, is a psychosocial rehabilitation specialist, psychology educator, and author of the "Everything Psychology Book."

Amy Morin, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and international bestselling author. Her books, including "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do," have been translated into more than 40 languages. Her TEDx talk,  "The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong," is one of the most viewed talks of all time.

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The term motivation describes why a person does something. It is the driving force behind human actions. Motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors.

For instance, motivation is what helps you lose extra weight, or pushes you to get that promotion at work. In short, motivation causes you to act in a way that gets you closer to your goals. Motivation includes the biological , emotional , social , and cognitive forces that activate human behavior.

Motivation also involves factors that direct and maintain goal-directed actions. Although, such motives are rarely directly observable. As a result, we must often infer the reasons why people do the things that they do based on observable behaviors.

Learn the types of motivation that exist and how we use them in our everyday lives. And if it feels like you've lost your motivation, do not worry. There are many ways to develop or improve your self-motivation levels.

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What Are the Types of Motivation?

The two main types of motivation are frequently described as being either extrinsic or intrinsic.

• Extrinsic motivation arises from outside of the individual and often involves external rewards such as trophies, money, social recognition, or praise.
• Intrinsic motivation is internal and arises from within the individual, such as doing a complicated crossword puzzle purely for the gratification of solving a problem.

A Third Type of Motivation?

Some research suggests that there is a third type of motivation: family motivation. An example of this type is going to work when you are not motivated to do so internally (no intrinsic motivation), but because it is a means to support your family financially.

Why Motivation Is Important

Motivation serves as a guiding force for all human behavior. So, understanding how motivation works and the factors that may impact it can be important for several reasons.

Understanding motivation can:

• Increase your efficiency as you work toward your goals
• Drive you to take action
• Encourage you to engage in health-oriented behaviors
• Help you avoid unhealthy or maladaptive behaviors, such as risk-taking and addiction
• Help you feel more in control of your life
• Improve your overall well-being and happiness

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This video has been medically reviewed by John C. Umhau, MD, MPH, CPE .

What Are the 3 Components of Motivation?

If you've ever had a goal (like wanting to lose 20 pounds or run a marathon), you probably already know that simply having the desire to accomplish these things is not enough. You must also be able to persist through obstacles and have the endurance to keep going in spite of difficulties faced.

These different elements or components are needed to get and stay motivated. Researchers have identified three major components of motivation: activation, persistence, and intensity.

• Activation is the decision to initiate a behavior. An example of activation would be enrolling in psychology courses in order to earn your degree.
• Persistence is the continued effort toward a goal even though obstacles may exist. An example of persistence would be showing up for your psychology class even though you are tired from staying up late the night before.
• Intensity is the concentration and vigor that goes into pursuing a goal. For example, one student might coast by without much effort (minimal intensity) while another student studies regularly, participates in classroom discussions, and takes advantage of research opportunities outside of class (greater intensity).

The degree of each of these components of motivation can impact whether you achieve your goal. Strong activation, for example, means that you are more likely to start pursuing a goal. Persistence and intensity will determine if you keep working toward that goal and how much effort you devote to reaching it.

Tips for Improving Your Motivation

All people experience fluctuations in their motivation and willpower . Sometimes you feel fired up and highly driven to reach your goals. Other times, you might feel listless or unsure of what you want or how to achieve it.

If you're feeling low on motivation, there are steps you can take to help increase your drive. Some things you can do to develop or improve your motivation include:

• Adjust your goals to focus on things that really matter to you. Focusing on things that are highly important to you will help push you through your challenges more than goals based on things that are low in importance.
• If you're tackling something that feels too big or too overwhelming, break it up into smaller, more manageable steps. Then, set your sights on achieving only the first step. Instead of trying to lose 50 pounds, for example, break this goal down into five-pound increments.
• Improve your confidence . Research suggests that there is a connection between confidence and motivation. So, gaining more confidence in yourself and your skills can impact your ability to achieve your goals.
• Remind yourself about what you've achieved in the past and where your strengths lie. This helps keep self-doubts from limiting your motivation.
• If there are things you feel insecure about, try working on making improvements in those areas so you feel more skilled and capable.

Causes of Low Motivation

There are a few things you should watch for that might hurt or inhibit your motivation levels. These include:

• All-or-nothing thinking : If you think that you must be absolutely perfect when trying to reach your goal or there is no point in trying, one small slip-up or relapse can zap your motivation to keep pushing forward.
• Believing in quick fixes : It's easy to feel unmotivated if you can't reach your goal immediately but reaching goals often takes time.
• Thinking that one size fits all : Just because an approach or method worked for someone else does not mean that it will work for you. If you don't feel motivated to pursue your goals, look for other things that will work better for you.

Motivation and Mental Health

Sometimes a persistent lack of motivation is tied to a mental health condition such as depression . Talk to your doctor if you are feeling symptoms of apathy and low mood that last longer than two weeks.

Theories of Motivation

Throughout history, psychologists have proposed different theories to explain what motivates human behavior. The following are some of the major theories of motivation.

The instinct theory of motivation suggests that behaviors are motivated by instincts, which are fixed and inborn patterns of behavior. Psychologists such as William James, Sigmund Freud , and William McDougal have proposed several basic human drives that motivate behavior. They include biological instincts that are important for an organism's survival—such as fear, cleanliness, and love.

Drives and Needs

Many behaviors such as eating, drinking, and sleeping are motivated by biology. We have a biological need for food, water, and sleep. Therefore, we are motivated to eat, drink, and sleep. The drive reduction theory of motivation suggests that people have these basic biological drives, and our behaviors are motivated by the need to fulfill these drives.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs is another motivation theory based on a desire to fulfill basic physiological needs. Once those needs are met, it expands to our other needs, such as those related to safety and security, social needs, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

Arousal Levels

The arousal theory of motivation suggests that people are motivated to engage in behaviors that help them maintain their optimal level of arousal. A person with low arousal needs might pursue relaxing activities such as reading a book, while those with high arousal needs might be motivated to engage in exciting, thrill-seeking behaviors such as motorcycle racing.

The Bottom Line

Psychologists have proposed many different theories of motivation . The reality is that there are numerous different forces that guide and direct our motivations.

Understanding motivation is important in many areas of life beyond psychology, from parenting to the workplace. You may want to set the best goals and establish the right reward systems to motivate others as well as to  increase your own motivation .

Knowledge of motivating factors (and how to manipulate them) is used in marketing and other aspects of industrial psychology. It's an area where there are many myths, and everyone can benefit from knowing what works with motivation and what doesn't.

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Powerful Quotes for your PowerPoint Presentations

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One of the most powerful ways to begin a presentation is to start by sharing a influential and morable quote that relates to the message of your talk. This can loosen up the beginning, consciously encourage important things while speaking or end the presentation with a meaningful conclusion and underline the main topic again.

This will bring liveliness and power to your presentation and create a more pleasant environment for your audience!

Quotes can be funny, inspirational, profound, successful, motivational, meaningless or basically everything! The most important thing is that they fit the today´s topic, correspond to the situation. This means, that they are appropriate and reinforce the actual theme.

If you are looking for great lines you can use in your PowerPoint or other presentations, you are perfectly right here! Read the following article to get inspired and to find a suitable citation you can use for your speech in school, work, business or anywhere and to leave an unforgettable impression on your presentation.

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With quotations to open your presentation you can represent yourself in a great authentic and relaxed way. The audience gets an exciting insight into the upcoming topic and in the best case can relate with the citation and thus build a sympathetic bond to you as the presenter. And all this is achieved by just one simple sentence.

Powerful quotes to start your presentation

• "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
• "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." – Albert Einstein
• "Words may inspire but action creates change." – Simon Sinek
• "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley
• "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – David Brinkley
• "Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games." - Babe Ruth | Baseball Legend
• "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates
• "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." - Warren Buffett
• "The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place." - Orison Swett Marden
• "You can't blame gravity for falling in love." - Albert Einstein

Using powerful citations while speaking makes your presentation much more exciting and memorable. A meaningful quotation gives your words much more power and emphasis and can additionally emphasize important things. Furthermore, if a listener hears a mentioned citation of your presentation one more time, he will most likely remember you.

Powerful quotes to reinforce essential topics

• "Some entrepreneurs think how can I make a lot of money? But a better way is to think how can I make people’s lives a lot better? If you get it right, the money will come." - Richard Branson
• "When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked." - Elon Musk
• "Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day." – Gary Vaynerchuck
• "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
• "When you find an idea that you can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue." – Josh James
• "Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once." – Drew Houston
• "You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done." - Russel Simmmons
• "If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you." – Zig Ziglar
• "Don’t build links. Build relationships." – Rand Fishkin
• "There is no great genius without some touch of madness." – Seneca

With citations you have the opportunity to clarify the topic just dealt with in one sentence and it is highly recommended to use this chance. Your audience will remember the end best, as it is the shortest, so it should be well chosen and memorable. It should also match your personality as well as the theme and be catchy.

Powerful quotes to close your presentation

• "100 percent of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in." – Wayne Gretzky | Hockey Legend
• "When I’m old and dying. I plan to look back on my life and say ‘Wow, an adventure’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’" – Tom Preston Werner
• "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." – Wayne Gretzy
• "It isn’t what we say or think that denies us, but what we do." – Jane Austen
• "Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be someone; get action." – Theodore Roosevelt
• "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama
• "You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having." – Frank Lloyd Wright
• "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela
• "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." – Thomas Edison
• "If you think you are too small to make an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." - Ekaterina Walter

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• "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
• "Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." - Tony Hsieh
• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
• "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
• "He who only does what he can will always remain what he is." - Henry Ford

• "Success is like being pregnant, everybody congratulates you, but nobody knows how many times you got fucked." - Author unknown
• "If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else." - Ann Landers
• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
• "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else." - Buddha

• "Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
• "It's the will not the skill." - Jim Tunney
• "Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work." - Joseph Barbara
• "I have never done that before so I should definitely be able to do it!" - Pippi Longstocking
• "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." - Harry Golden

• "Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich." - Henry Ford
• "The prize for success is that it unlocks harder challenges with more at stake for next time." - Author unknown
• "The opposite to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design." - Adam Judge

• "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
• "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it." - Henry Ford
• "If you want to be happy, be happy." - Leo Tolstoy
• "So far you have survived 100% of your worst days." - Author unknown
• "Great Lessons are only learned when the stakes are high." - Georgina Hobart

• "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
• "When in doubt, don't." - Benjamin Franklin
• "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "Easy choises, hard life. Hard choices easy life." - Jerzy Gregorek
• "What you begrudge others will be withheld from yourself." - Author unknown

Now you have 60 quotes you can incorporate into your presentation to stand out from the everyday, all-too-familiar phrases that everyone knows.

But remember: Under no circumstances should they be discriminatory, racist or offensive, so you need to make yourself known in advance through your audience.

Leave your personal impression and convince your audience with simple but incredibly strong lines!

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In addition, we have already created some PowerPoint templates for you, which you can download for free. Simply replace the existing quotes or image if you want and adapt the slides to your presentation!

What are good quotes for starting a presentation?

By opening your presentation with a quote you can represent yourself in an authentic way. The audience gets an exciting insight into the upcoming topic and in the best case can relate with the quote and thus build a sympathetic bond to you as the presenter. And all this is achieved by just one simple sentence. Here is a list of good quotes to begin a presentation .

What are good quotes for ending a presentation?

With citations you have the opportunity to clarify the topic just dealt with in one sentence and it is highly recommended to use this chance. Your audience will remember the end best, so it should be well chosen and memorable. It should also match your personality as well as the theme and be catchy. Here is a list of good quotes to finish a presentation .

What are powerful quotes for a PowerPoint presentation?

One of the most powerful ways to begin a presentation is to start by sharing a influential and memorable quote that relates to the message of your talk. This can loosen up the beginning, consciously encourage important things while speaking or end the presentation with a meaningful conclusion and underline the main topic again. We have collected 60 powerful quotes for your PowerPoint presentation .

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Achievement Motivation: Nine Ways To Use It in the Workplace

Published: October 23, 2023

What motivates you to push through work? Impressing your co-workers? Receiving positive feedback? Finishing assignments with flying colors? If so, you might run on achievement motivation, a type of motivation driven by setting goals and achieving them.

Understanding what motivates you makes a difference in the workplace — two in 10 employees perform better when motivated. This especially applies to entrepreneurs, who often run companies by themselves and require self-motivation.

Achievement motivation can help you stay driven and focused, even when hurdles get in the way.

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What is achievement motivation?

Achievement motivation examples, how to use achievement motivation at work.

Achievement motivation is the drive to accomplish goals, succeed at work, and reach a satisfactory level of achievement. Individuals with high achievement motivation often enjoy receiving feedback, taking calculated risks, and facing challenges. They are characterized by their:

• Competitiveness
• Determination
• Risk-positivity
• Goal-orientedness

Achievement motivation stems from psychologist David McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory. McClelland’s theory expanded Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — a pyramid of the needs and wants of people — to touch on what drives people.

McClelland found that three factors primarily motivate people:

• Achievement: accomplishment and success
• Affiliation: relationships and belonging
• Power: influence and control

Achievement motivation works best for entrepreneurs because they possess goal-oriented mindsets, strive to achieve high-level goals, and deal with setbacks. In other words, achievement acts as a vital fuel to drive entrepreneurial success.

You can clearly see achievement motivation when individuals set goals and work hard to reach them.

Consider a hypothetical fintech startup owner who wants to acquire more leads for their app. To do so, they set an ambitious goal of growing their user base by 100% by the end of the year. The idea of achieving this goal drives the owner and pushes them to develop an innovative marketing campaign and enhance user experience.

An entrepreneur with high achievement motivation may also want to expand their business into other territories. They break down their expansion into more measurable parts — striving to enter four countries within three years. The entrepreneur then conducts extensive research into local markets, regulations, culture, and competitors, even onboarding some freelancers to help them. The prospect of expansion — in this case, achievement — primarily drives them.

1. Set SMART goals

To use achievement motivation, you need to set SMART goals — which can help you better define what it means to achieve. According to a HubSpot survey, 52% of respondents believe SMART goals help them reach their goals more effectively.

SMART stands for:

• Specific: Niche down your high-level goal into a more detailed one
• Measurable: Attach metrics you can use to measure progress
• Attainable: Create goals you can realistically achieve
• Relevant: Ensure goals align with your overall objectives
• Time-Bound: Set a due date or timeline

When setting goals for yourself, ensure they have each of these aspects. You might, for example, aim to increase revenue by 30% within the next year. Achievement motivation complements this approach, as SMART goals establish clear, actionable road maps.

2. Break down big goals into smaller ones

By itself, changing the world is admirable. But it lacks any actual tasks. So, remember to break down your high-level goals into smaller, more approachable ones. This helps entrepreneurs:

• Avoid feeling overwhelmed
• Prioritize certain tasks over others
• Maintain momentum

Smaller goals means achieving more often, which can help keep achievement motivation high.

3. Look for learning opportunities

Achievement motivation means regularly improving your skills and abilities. You feel motivated to succeed, which requires making improvements to yourself over time. Entrepreneurs can take advantage of learning opportunities, such as:

• Attending workshops
• Reading books
• Taking online courses
• Going to industry conferences
• Joining communities on LinkedIn or Facebook

By seeking out learning opportunities, you can stay ahead of emerging trends, learn from others, and expand your knowledge. These all benefit achievement motivation, which requires building a growth mindset .

4. Seek feedback from others

According to Zippia research, 98% of workers disengage when they receive little or no feedback at work. Entrepreneurs, who sometimes work alone as solopreneurs , face a similar problem and should seek feedback from people they work with, such as:

• Co-workers or co-founders
• Former managers

Feedback from those close to you gives you unique perspectives on where you can make improvements. Constructive feedback taps into achievement motivation, as it creates another goal of self-improvement for entrepreneurs to pursue.

5. Surround yourself with high-achievers

Motivational speaker and entrepreneur Jim Rohn famously said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Psychologically, Rohn’s right — the people you keep around change how you think and interact with the world.

So, to build achievement motivation, seek out other high-achievers and build relationships with them. This might entail:

• Setting up coffee chats
• Engaging with community groups
• Getting a mentor
• Attending industry events

By building a network of high-achievers, you can rekindle your own achievement motivation through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

6. Celebrate success

Achievement motivation drives entrepreneurs to, as the idea implies, achieve . To really hone in on motivation, remember to celebrate successes — big and small — to create a positive association with reaching your goals. Consider:

• Hosting a small party
• Announcing shared milestones
• Rewarding yourself with a prize or treat

Remember not to skimp over even the smallest of victories, as celebrating them allows you to build achievement motivation. More than that, celebrating small wins improves your mood — 83% of people believe acknowledging a small win can turn a bad day into a good one.

7. Evaluate yourself

To improve your ability to achieve goals, make time to evaluate yourself by measuring goal progress, analyzing achievements, assessing time management , and thinking about your current strengths and weaknesses. Consider asking yourself:

• What goals have I achieved? How did I achieve them?
• Where am I at with my current goals? Am I on track?
• How does my schedule complement or hinder my abilities? Do I need to make more time for collaboration or more time for work?
• What are my strengths and weaknesses? Have I improved on any? Do any need refining?

Self-evaluation helps you improve your decision making, master skills faster, and reach goals quicker.

8. Take calculated risks

High achievement motivators tend to lean into what they do best. After all, why take a risk and fail, when you can stick with your gut and achieve over and over? But achievement motivation requires you to build challenges for yourself and take calculated risks.

You can figure out whether a risk makes sense to pursue by:

• Gathering information by conducting research into trends, customers, finances, and so on
• Writing down a list of pros and cons and comparing
• Starting with low-stake risks
• Asking others for their feedback and opinions

9. Extract learning from setbacks

Alongside feeling motivated to achieve, high achievement motivation also means wanting to avoid failure. But in the world of entrepreneurship, failure follows you everywhere. Instead, reframe your mind and view setbacks as learning opportunities.

So, when dealing with failure, try:

• Reflecting on what went wrong and what went right
• Accepting responsibility for the mistake
• Asking others for their input
• Writing down specific lessons learned from the obstacle
• Sharing lessons with others

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