1,000 Motivational Quotes For Work That Will Inspire (2023)
1. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
2. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
3. “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan
4. A good plan now is better than a great plan too late. – Verne Harnish
5. “Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.” – Midrash
6. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
7. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
8. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
9. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” -Rumi, poet
10. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addai
11. Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. —Albert Einstein
12. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
13. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain
14. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” — Vince Lombardi
15. A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. - Colin Powell
16. “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden
17. Every responsibility you get make it a pocket of greatness. – Jim Collins
18. “Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” – Neil Gaiman
19. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Unknown.
20. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King
21. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez
22. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden
23. “You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.” – Unknown
24. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino
25. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown
26. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
27. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
28. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
29. “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” – Mary Kay Ash
30. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball
31. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.”
32. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” - John Muir
33. “The best way out is always through.” ―Robert Frost
34. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
35. “The whole is better than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka
36. A common saying around Silicon Valley is execution eats strategy for breakfast. – Salim Ismail
37. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
38. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
39. “The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.” – Ginger Rogers
40. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
41. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ —Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
43. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
44. “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens
45. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney
46. “Work without love is slavery.” – Mother Teresa
47. “Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.” — Uri Geller
48. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella
49. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach
50. “Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen.” -Conan O’Brien, comedian
51. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
52. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
53. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
54. “The worst Monday is the one that gets wasted for nothing.” —Unknown
55. “Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain (Writer)
56. You decide.” —Paulo Coelho
57. A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce
58. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
59. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” —Camilla Eyring Kimball
60. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
61. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” — Haile Gebrselassie
62. “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.” - Rebecca Wells
63. Not to have tried is the true failure.” —George Edward Woodberry
64. Put your future in good hands—your own.” —Mark Victor Hansen
65. “I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
66. “Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen.” – Akwaeke Emezi
67. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill
68. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. —Stephen Hawking
69. “Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something.” – Michael Lopp
70. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
71. “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” - Lou Holtz
72. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” -Richard Branson, businessman
73. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet
74. Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other – Simon Senek
75. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela
76. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
77. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi
78. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
79. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” -Billie Jean King
80. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin
81. “People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” — Allan Fromme
82. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.” ― George Meredith
83. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
84. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
85. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
86. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner (American Media Proprietor)
87. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
88. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. ―Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
89. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours. —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
90. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”
91. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” —Ken Poirot
92. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Dr. Robert Schuller
93. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden
94. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
95. “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
96. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
97. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
98. Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend. — Walt Disney
99. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
100. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso
101. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart, aviator
102. “Impossible is just an opinion.” — Paulo Coelho
103. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy
104. “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
105. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
106. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napolean Hill
107. “Genius is born—not paid.” - Oscar Wilde
108. “Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.” – Warren Buffet
109. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt
110. “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” – Madeleine L’Engle
111. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. —Salvador Dali
112. “If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big.” - Tom Hirshfield
113. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
114. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
115. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson
116. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
117. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it just works. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
118. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
119. Imitation is suicide. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
120. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
121. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
122. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
123. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z
124. I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
125. “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
126. “If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work.” – Ari Weinzweig
127. “If you look for perfection, you will never be content.”
128. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
129. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle
130. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
131. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan
132. Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure. —Stanley McChrystal
133. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
134. “Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” -Simon Sinek, author
135. “If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything.” – Marva Collin
136. “Big jobs usually go to those who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Theodore Roosevelt
137. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”– Beverly Sills
138. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” —Will Rogers
139. “Do or do not. There is no try.”
140. Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
141. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Samuel Goldwyn
142. “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower
143. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
144. “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” — Paul Coffey
145. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”– Thomas Jefferson
146. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” - Dale Carnegie
147. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson
148. “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
149. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
150. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”.
151. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights leader
152. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
153. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
154. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney
155. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” -Tim Notke, coach
156. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty
157. “When the pain of an obstacle is too great, challenge yourself to be stronger.” – Unknown
158. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
159. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
160. “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” – Gabby Douglas
161. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
162. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
163. “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John Rockefeller
164. “You’re so much stronger than your excuses” – Unknown
165. “If you are not growing, you are dying.” -Tony Robbins, motivational speaker
166. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
167. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
168. “The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’” – Komil Toume
169. “Even the best weeks start with Monday.” —Nice Peter
170. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” - Lucius Seneca
171. You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind. —Irish Proverb
172. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya Angelou
173. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh
174. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope
175. “What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.” – Ted Kennedy (Former US Senator)
176. “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” – Edwin Land
177. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
178. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
179. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller
180. “You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast.” – Jack Dorsey
181. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” —Ralph Marston
182. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
183. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
184. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
185. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”
186. “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” —Sukhraj S. Dhillon
187. “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” —Arthur Christopher Benson
188. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
189. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. ― Ai Weiwei
190. If you’re alive, you’re a creative person. —Elizabeth Gilbert
191. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
192. “Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.” – Brad Sugars
193. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
194. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” – Lemony Snicket
195. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
196. Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. – Peter Drucker
197. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.” - Steve Jobs
198. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Seneca
199. “Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Liane Cardes
200. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
201. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” —Albert Einstein
202. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed.
203. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
204. “Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.” – Pat Riley
205. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
206. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” — Unknown
207. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
208. “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
209. Genius is born—not paid. —Oscar Wilde
210. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
211. “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
212. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
213. “The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.” — Dan Waldschmidt
214. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn
215. “Don’t give up. One day you’ll look back and be glad you didn’t.” - Unknown
216. “Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” – Sheryl Sandberg
217. “People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.” – Bob Nelson
218. “Each morning is a new opportunity to start off fresh, and try again.”-unknown
219. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama
220. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
221. “Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.” -Bo Jackson
222. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
223. “Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator.” – Unknown
224. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” -John F Kennedy, president
225. I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. — Lucille Ball
226. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
227. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
228. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi
229. When they give you lined paper, write the other way. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
230. “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.” – Simon Sinek
231. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
232. “The most effective way to do is to do it.” —Amelia Earhart
233. “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” – Biz Stone (American Entrepreneur)
234. “All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
235. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. —Joss Whedon
236. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
237. “[Teamwork] is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” – Andrew Carnegie
238. “No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.” -Paul Tsongas, politician
239. “Refuse failure. No matter how difficult the obstacles, find a way to around them.” – JJ Goldwag
240. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”
241. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney
242. “What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” – Lionel from Maid in Manhattan Movie
243. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
244. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. —Roald Dahl
245. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks
246. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” —Benjamin E. Mays
247. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown
248. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
249. “OK, it’s Monday but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.” —Kimberly Jiménez
250. “As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.” -Margaret Heffernan
251. “It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit”. – Harry S. Truman
252. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” —Henry Ford
253. “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
254. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
255. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
256. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb
257. “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” – Luther Campbell
258. “It takes both sides to build a bridge.” – Fredrik Nael
259. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” —Laird Hamilton
260. “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.”– Luther Campbell
261. “Monday is for people with a mission.” —Cristina Imre
262. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” -Frank Ocean, musician
263. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.” — Ozwald Boateng
264. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay
265. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” —B.F. Skinner
266. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —e.e. cummings
267. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
268. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon (British Hairstylist)
269. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” – Tony Robbins
270. “There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.” - Terence Fletcher
271. Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. —F. Scott Fitzgerald
272. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus
273. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
274. “The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.” – Karen Salmansohn
275. “We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey, philosopher
276. “Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.” – Michael Jordan
277. “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka (Psychologist)
278. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves. —Chanakya
279. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne
280. Speak softly and carry a big stick. —Theodore Roosevelt
281. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” –Richard Bach
282. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
283. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
284. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” —Tricia Cunningham
285. “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” – Biz Stone
286. If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” - Ernest Hemingway
287. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
288. Goonies never say die! —Mickey, The Goonies
289. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier
290. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
291. “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” - Unknown
292. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” —Ernest Hemingway
293. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
294. The secret to success is the consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli
295. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.” -St. Jerome
296. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” – Goethe
297. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
298. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
299. “Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.” – Leigh Steinberg
300. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
301. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
302. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Charles Darwin
303. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” — Urijah Faber
304. Fight till the last gasp. —William Shakespeare, Henry VI
305. “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” – Malcolm Forbes
306. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. — Muhammad Ali
307. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
308. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” - Charles Kingsleigh
309. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
310. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
311. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” -Unknown
312. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
313. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott (Novelist)
314. “Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.” – Habeeb Akande
315. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey
316. “Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.” – John Katzenbach (Author)
317. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
318. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
319. “You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.” – Mahalia Jackson
320. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln
321. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” —Thomas Carlyle
322. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” - Barack Obama
323. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown
324. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
325. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein
326. “Fall 7 times, stand up 8.” —Japanese Proverb
327. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
328. “Light tomorrow with today.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
329. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
330. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
331. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln
332. “Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” – Max McKeown
333. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
334. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
335. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
336. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
337. “Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows.” - Helen Keller
338. “Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight.”
339. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
340. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. —Marie Curie
341. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
342. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
343. “Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” — Bette Davis
344. “Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
345. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.” - Tony Robbins
346. “Lost time is never found again.”
347. “I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.” Mother Teresa (Saint)
348. “Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” – Justin Sewell
349. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey
350. “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant (Businessman)
351. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” -Stephen Covey, author
352. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact.” —Victor Hugo
353. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
354. “If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.” — Elbert Hubbard
355. Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. —Jim Hensen
356. As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning. —Margaret Heffernan
357. We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
358. “How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
359. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”– Harry S Truman
360. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” – Unknown
361. “Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.” -Arab proverb
362. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
363. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”– Isaac Newton
364. “This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” —Gabriel García Márquez
365. “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” – Napoleon Hill
366. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso
367. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
368. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
369. Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right. —Henry Ford
370. “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect.” –Meghan M. Biro
371. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar
372. “The only limit to our growth is the amount of work we are willing to put in.” ― Eric Thomas
373. “It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.” – Federico Fellini
374. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” – Zig Ziglar
375. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
376. Quality is job one. —Henry Ford
377. “My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
378. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much of Today.” – Will Rogers
379. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.
380. It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. —Spoon Boy, The Matrix
381. “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” —Maria Edgeworth
382. “Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing.”
383. “You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”
384. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” — Tricia Cunningham
385. “Someday is not a day of the week.” —Janet Dailey
386. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
387. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan
388. “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” - Ralph Marston
389. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” - Vince Lombardi
390. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
391. “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubinstein
392. “Practice makes progress not perfect.” – Unknown
393. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
394. “You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” -Oprah Winfrey, media mogul
395. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” — Unknown
396. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
397. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
398. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
399. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
400. “Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda
401. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
402. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
403. “We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform.” – Pete Cashmore
404. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
405. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford, businessman
406. There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing. —Aristotle
407. Think of it as time-released success.” —Robert Orben
408. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford
409. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
410. “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” - Buddha
411. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” -Michelle Obama, first lady
412. “Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success.” -Arianna Huffington, businesswoman
413. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer
414. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
415. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
416. The key is not to prioritize what is on your schedule but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey
417. A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar
418. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller (American Author)
419. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
420. If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing. — Ernest Hemingway
421. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”– Hasidic Proverb
422. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford
423. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
424. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
425. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” -Charles Buxton, writer and politician
426. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
427. “Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long-term success.” – Ned Lautenbach
428. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
429. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
430. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”.
431. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”- unknown
432. “One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win.” – Kylie Francis
433. “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
434. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
435. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
436. “Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
437. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. —John Milton, Paradise Lost
438. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
439. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Proverb
440. “Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.” – Fred Allen
441. “No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.” – Anna Pavlova
442. “You have the power on your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
443. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”—Kate Summers
444. “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
445. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.”
446. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
447. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
448. “We rise by lifting others” – Robert Ingersoll
449. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
450. “When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” -Bill Shoemaker
451. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
452. “Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” -Sam Levenson
453. “I wish I could tell you it gets better. But it doesn’t get better. You get better.”
454. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”
455. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie
456. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein
457. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”– Harry Golden
458. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”
459. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” -Helen Hayes, actress
460. “The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” – J. Paul Getty
461. “Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai
462. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
463. “Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain
464. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” —Joyce Brothers
465. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
466. Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not. —Dr. Suess, the Lorax
467. “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” – Horace
468. “Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.” –Eraldo Banovac
469. “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
470. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
471. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela, world leader
472. “Think of many things; do one.”
473. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell
474. “The beginning is always today.” —Mary Shelley
475. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
476. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfilment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara
477. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confuciusm, Confucius: The Analect
478. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley
479. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
480. If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. —Buddha
481. “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” - Amelia Earhart
482. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
483. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
484. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
485. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” – Henry Ford
486. “Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all.” – Unknown
487. Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. – James Cash Penney
488. “The secret of getting ahead, is getting started.” - Mark Twain
489. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
490. “How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank
491. “Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us” – Barack Obama
492. “Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.'” – Oprah Winfrey
493. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
494. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
495. “Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” -Simone de Beauvoir
496. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle
497. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” - Mark Twain
498. “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.” – John Adams
499. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” —Venus Williams
500. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” - Michael Jordan
501. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford
502. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali
503. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
504. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee
505. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”– Robert Hall
506. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
507. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
508. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi
509. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” -Ben Hogan
510. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
511. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” – Jim Henson
512. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
513. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
514. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard - Tim Notke
515. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
516. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, writer
517. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
518. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
519. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
520. “Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese proverb
521. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland
522. Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. —A.C. Benson
523. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” ― Joseph Barbara
524. “If you must work hard, work hard to find a smart solution.” — Alexander Woo
525. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
526. Learning never exhausts the mind. —Leonardo Da Vinci
527. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
528. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene” - A.C. Benson
529. “You can fail at what you don’t want – so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
530. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.” – Michael Jordan
531. “When you organize activities, you can weed out unimportant stuff and work more efficiently.” ― Nick Bell
532. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” - Henry Ford
533. “I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” ― Lou Holtz
534. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan
535. “When you are inspired in your work, everything seems to fall into place.” ― Wayne Dyer
536. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
537. “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” —Mario Andretti
538. “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill
539. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
540. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
541. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
542. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
543. “‘Go and get your things,’ he said. ‘Dreams mean work.'” – Paulo Coelho
544. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” -Mark Twain, writer
545. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” - Unknown
546. “Becoming is better than being.” - Carol Dweck
547. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do” – Henry Ford
548. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
549. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. —Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
550. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder
551. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Chinese proverb
552. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
553. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
554. “If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough.” – David A. Bednar
555. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” - R. Collier
556. “You don’t need a New Year to make a change. All you need is a Monday.” —Unknown
557. “The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
558. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
559. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” —Audrey Hepburn
560. “As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.”
561. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
562. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin
563. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” —Rupert Murdoch
564. “People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu
565. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
566. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie
567. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” - Lao Tzu
568. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
569. “Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?” – Komal Kapoor
570. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Pirates of the Caribbean
571. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried
572. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” – Irish Proverb
573. “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” —Mallika Tripathi
574. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
575. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
576. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
577. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”
578. “I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.” – Edgar Winter
579. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
580. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” -Jimmy Johnson, football player
581. “A goal without a plan is only a dream.” - Brian Tracy
582. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry Truman, president
583. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. —Michael Jordan
584. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle, philosopher
585. The power of imagination makes us infinite. —John Muir
586. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
587. “Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.” – Unknown
588. “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” — Susan L. Taylor