Daily Inspirational Quotes for the Workplace: A Powerful Collection to Motivate Your Workday

"Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence."

- Karren Brady

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities — that is your values, goals, and high-leverage activities, organize around them."

- Stephen Covey

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

- Mary Holloway

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely. Refueling as a way to find joy, to create pleasure, and to celebrate life in the midst of all its demands fills our hearts with renewed hope. When we take the time to breathe, listen, and rest from the daily grind to see miracles bubbling up in our lives."

- Sally Clarkson

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage our problems."

- Jo Frost

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."

- Bernard Williams

"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."

- Jonathan Mills

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

"The only thing you have control over is your attitude."

- Viktor Frankl

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have. . . You become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance."

- Al Siebert

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"The root of joy is gratefulness . . . It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

- David Steindl-Rast

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success."

- Tamara Taylor

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office’."

- Arnold Zack

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."

- Maya Angelou

"I think it’s important to try to be present with whatever it is you’re doing. And if you can’t be present, take a break."

- Emily Giffin

"In this game, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge, and jump back in full throttle."

- Helen Edwards

"Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs."

- Russell Eric Dobda

"Never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead."

- Tony Hsieh

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded."

- Gail Borden

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda."

- John C. Maxwell

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

- Virginia Burden

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team."

- Reid Hoffman

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."

- Jim Stovall

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team."

- Brian Tracy

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy."

- Terry Pratchett

"If A equals success in life, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein

"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordon

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

- Brian Tracy

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sacks

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

- Warren Buffett

"The pessimists sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"Success in never final; failure is never fatal."

- Conrad Hilton

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

- Michael Jordan

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

- Henry Ford

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"A strong, positive self—image is the best possible preparation for success."

- Joyce Brothers

"The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly, you’re doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Self—confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams."

- Donovan Bailey

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life."

- Harvey Mackay

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."

- Kiana To

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin Sharma

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."

- Maya Angelou

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

- Jim Rohn

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit."

- Aristotle

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits."

- Eric Thomas

"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live."

- Anne Sweeney

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."

- Denis Waitley

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible."

- Tony Robbins

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

"If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you."

- Tony Morgan

"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

- Tony Robbins

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"Never allow a person to tell you ‘no’ who doesn’t have the power to say ‘yes.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

"How wonderful is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

- Eva Young

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."

- Anna Quindlen

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

"People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them."

- Mindy Kaling

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

- Vincent van Gogh

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan van Ness

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them."

- Tony Robbins

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities."

- Sophia Amoruso

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The more I want to get something done the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight."

- Remi Witt

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A good system shortens the road to the goal."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The obvious rule of efficiency is you don’t want to spend more time organizing than it’s worth."

- Daniel Levitin

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"You are not your resume, you are your work."

- Seth Godin

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever."

- May Sarton

"A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues."

- Lee Iacocca

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites."

- Jin Kwon

"Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else."

- Martha Beck

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe."

- Sumner Redstone

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway."

- Kimberly Jiménez

"Monday is for people with a mission."

- Cristina Imre

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

- Ray Kroc

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

- Douglas Adams

"By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

- Robert Frost

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment."

- Robert Benchley

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill."

- Thomas Kinkade

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. . . Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"You can make a positive impact on the world when you maintain your equanimity, resilience, recovery, and renewal as strong and positive."

- Amit Ray

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steven Furtick

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

- Mark Twain

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’"

- Don Marquis

"When nobody fails, everybody loses. Feedback and resilience are vital."

- Alan Froggatt

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends — but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership."

- Julio Alexi Genao

"Even the best weeks start with Monday."

- Nice Peter

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"I believe in stopping work and eating lunch."

- L'Wren Scott

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

- Edward Bergen

"With organization comes empowerment."

- Lynda Peterson

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

- Don Herold

"Getting organized is a sign of self-respect."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

- Edmund Burke

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so."

- Douglas Adams

"No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."

- Shane Koyczan

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

"A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."

- Alain de Botton

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

- William Faulkner

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"I hate that word: ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"The only way to climb the mountain is to always look up."

- Laurie L. Mohr

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"No risk it, no biscuit."

- Andy Reid

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges."

- Bryant McGill

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita von Teese

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes / Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you"

- Lizzo

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

"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."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm-up."

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

"One day or day one. You decide."

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday."

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

"Organizing is a journey, not a destination."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."