Inspiring Work Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Motivate Your Career

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Colin Powell

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Maya Angelou

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Lorimer

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

- Gary Player

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Tim Notke

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

"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

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"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

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

- Conan O'Brien

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Winston Churchill

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"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

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

- Lou Holtz

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

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

- George M. Moore Jr.

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Beverly Sills

"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

"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.

"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

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Kevin Kruse

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Colin R. Davis

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Sumner Redstone

"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

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

- Marie Forleo

"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

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Anne Frank

"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

"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

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"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

"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

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Seth Godin

"You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

- Timothy Leary

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Frank Ocean

"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

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

- David Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- John Rockefeller

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- African Proverb

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- William James

"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

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

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

- David Ogilvy

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

"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

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"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

"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

"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

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"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

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

- John Dewey

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

- Pope Paul VI

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!"

- David O. McKay

"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

- Chanakya

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

- Stephen Hawking

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Without labor nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."

- George Sand

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

- Horace

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

- Johnny Carson

"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

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ray Kroc

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

- Peter Drucker

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

"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

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."

- Margaret Fuller

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- Brian Tracy

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Peter Drucker

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"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

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

- Robert Collier

"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Joyce Brothers

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"I never dreamt of success. I worked for it."

- Estee Lauder

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

"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

"If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real."

- Tony Robbins

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm"

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."

- Joe Torre

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"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

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

- Laird Hamilton

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Anne Frank

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Drake

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Steven Furtick

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"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

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- John Wooden

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"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

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"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

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Michael Larsen

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Proverb

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

- Claire Cook

"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

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

- Ari Weinzweig

"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

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

- Michael Lopp

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

- James Russell Lowell

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

- Confucius

"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

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

- Patrick Suskind

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Simon Sinek

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Arnold Glasow

"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

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Jack Welch

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

- Meghan M. Biro

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

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- Angela Ahrendts

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Fred Allen

"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

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

- Hasidic Proverb

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

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

- Eva Young

"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

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

- Meister Eckhart

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Jag Randhawa

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Max DePree

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Emily Voyles

"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

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Banksy

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Sydney Harris

"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

"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

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

- Tina Fey

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Bob Nelson

"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

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Amy Poehler

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

"If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?"

- Matthew Woodring Stover

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"When you hand good people possibility, they do great things."

- Biz Stone

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

- Virginia Burden

"Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us"

- Barack Obama

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

- David Hurley

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

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

- George Shinn

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton

"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first."

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Thomas Edison

"Create an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, you’re never gonna get off the ground."

- Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

- John Wooden

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."

- Ginger Rogers

"Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learning. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path."

- Phillip Sweet

"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing."

- William Arthur Ward

"Quality is everyone's responsibility."

- W. Edwards Deming

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."

- Gertrude B. Elion

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Frost

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream."

- Debby Boone

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running."

- Gary Sinise

"A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement."

- James H. Douglas, Jr.

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."

- Neil Armstrong

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."

- Dylan Thomas

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

- Anne Frank

"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

- Jonas Salk

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.’"

- Albert Einstein

"Good things happen to those who hustle."

- Chuck Noll

"I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work."

- Louis C. K.

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

- Charles Baudelaire

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

- Richard Bach

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred Devito

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Jim Rohn

"When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do."

- Nicki Minaj

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail… a lot. The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation."

- Mark Cuban

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Yoda

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

"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

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Stephen King

"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

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Albert Einstein

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Helen Keller

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it."

- Estee Lauder

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Edna Mode

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you."

- Derek Jeter

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

- Florence Nightingale

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- George Addair

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

- M. Scott Peck

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

- Jim Rohn

"Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people."

- Tena Desae

"You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything."

- Ali Krieger

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

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

- Dita von Teese

"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Conan O'Brien

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough."

- David A. Bednar

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

"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

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

- Lily Tomlin

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."

- Scott Galloway

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right."

- Adam Grant

"I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"It’s better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

- Jim Hightower

"To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do."

- John Adams

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity"

- Sun Tzu

"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement."

- Mark Manson

"Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off."

- Tony La Russa

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

- Mandy Hale

"You are not the work you do; you are the person you are."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Rumi

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen."

- Akwaeke Emezi

"Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator."

- Joseph Murray

"Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity."

- Ram Dass

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

- Arnold J. Toynbee

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

- Albert Camus

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."

- Lemony Snicket

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."

- Joseph Barbara

"Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."

- Mary Shelley

"As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning."

- Margaret Heffernan

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

- Gustave Flaubert

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."

- A. A. Milne

"Work is much more fun than fun."

- Noel Coward

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it."

- Ted Turner

"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."

- Ogden Nash

"Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else."

- Dmitri Mendeleev

"If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything."

- Marva Collins

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- Chanakya

"Honor lies in honest toil."

- Grover Cleveland

"Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone."

- Ramakrishna

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all."

- Dr. John Izzo

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."

- Antos Parrish

"Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things."

- Byron Dorgan

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."

- Harold S. Geneen

"Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig."

- Cheryl Strayed

"It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

- Colin Powell

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

- Samuel Butler

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

- Louise Hay

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."

- Abu Bakr

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

- Milton Friedman

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

- George Burns

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

"One day or day one. You decide."

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

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

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

"Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator."

"You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined."

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you are done."

"Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams."

"It might not be easy but it’ll be worth it."

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

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

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