50 Inspirational Quotes About Work to Motivate Your Day

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Walt Disney

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Lucas

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

- Wayne Huizenga

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Don’t count the days; make the days count. Use this Thursday to make an impact."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Sam Levenson

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Jonathan Sack

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Confucius

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

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Stephen King

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Colin Powell

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

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

- 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

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

- Robert Hall

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

- George M. Moore Jr.

"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

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

- George Edward Woodberry

"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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- John C. Maxwell

"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

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

- Stephen King

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"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

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

- George Lorimer

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"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

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

"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

"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

"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.

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

- Julie Andrews

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

"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

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

"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

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

- William Feather

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Peter Drucker

"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

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Hannibal

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

- Florence Nightingale

"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

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walter Elliot

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Henry Ford

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Steve Jobs

"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 S. Sharma

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Louis Pasteur

"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

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"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

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

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

- James A. Michener

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

- Michael Larsen

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Aristotle

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Chinese proverb

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Richard Bach

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

- Isabelle Lafleche

"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

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

- Frank Ocean

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Seth Godin

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"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

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Confucius

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

- Earl Nightingale

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- John Rockefeller

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

- Seth Godin

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

- William Durant

"Effort is what is required on Thursday to finish all that needs to be done."

- Kate Summers

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Winston Churchill

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Anne Sweeney

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

- Eric Thomas

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

- Eminem

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Arianna Huffington

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Simon Sinek

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Sophia Amoruso

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

- Remi Witt

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

- Banksy

"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

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

- Will Rogers

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Mario Andretti

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- African Proverb

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Ari Weinzweig

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Proverb

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Emily Voyles

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

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

- Sammy Davis Jr.

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

"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

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Pete Cashmore

"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

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

- Fred Allen

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

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

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Lloyd Dobens

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

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

- Pamela Stroko

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

- Bob Nelson

"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

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"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

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

- Lucille Ball

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"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

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- George Addair

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

- Drew Houston

"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

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Ally Carter

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning because, boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day?"

- Mel Gibson

"Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Robert Brault

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

- Will Rogers

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little."

- Buddha

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"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 a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Robert Browning

"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

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

- Albert Camus

"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

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

- Will Rogers

"Start your Thursday with an attitude of optimism. It’s going to be a good day!"

- Kate Summers

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

- Richard Branson

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- David Allen

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

- Trina Paulus

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Claire Cook

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Marie Curie

"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

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Mark Twain

"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."

- Dr. Steve Maraboli

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

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

- Drake

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Mark Twain

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

"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

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

- Les Brown

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

- George Eliot

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

- Stephen Covey

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

- Ellen Glasgow

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C. S. Lewis

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Timothy Leary

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"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

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."

- Rupert Murdoch

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself]."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert

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

- Tina Fey

"It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

- Neal A. Maxwell

"It takes a lot of courage to have an attitude of gratitude during the dark times. But once you have it, it empowers you."

- Joshua Tongol

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

- Nelson Mandela

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."

- Jean Vanier

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Voltaire

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Coco Chanel

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Sydney Harris

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- David Hurley

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Thursday morning and the sun is early, Thursday morning and the trees are singing."

- Giles, Giles & Fripp

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Confucius

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

- James Russell Lowell

"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

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

- Anne Lamott

"Thursday comes, and the week’s gone."

- George Herbert

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

- Dita Von Teese

"Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck."

- Marissa Mayer

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

- Mark Twain

"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for."

- April Winchell

"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

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"Success is not built on luck. It’s built on hard work and determination. Keep pushing forward, even on Thursdays!"

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

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

"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."

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

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Your attitude determines how far you’ll go. Stay positive and conquer this Thursday!"

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The day is just beginning, but look how far you have come to get here."

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

"Effort is what is required to turn good intentions into reality."

- Unknown

"One day or day one. You decide."

"Thursday is the day for looking forward with optimism and backward with wisdom."

"Happy Thursday! I hope your coffee is strong and your deadlines are weak."

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

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

"Happy Almost-Friday, everyone! Let’s power through today like it’s the last hurdle of a marathon."

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

"Some people call it Thursday, I like to call it Friday Eve."

"Thursday is the bridge between the hard work of the week and the sweet reward of the weekend."

"It’s Friday! Sorry… just practicing for tomorrow!"

"Thursdays are just wannabes. They wannabe Friday but they’re not."