50 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Colleagues

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

- George Addair

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

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something."

- Zig Ziglar

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- African Proverb

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did."

- Mark Twain

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

- Yoda

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea."

- Ed Catmull

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

- Walt Disney

"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.

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

- Steve Jobs

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

"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

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Michael Jordan

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

- Pat Riley

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Emily Voyles

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

- Lloyd Dobens

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It all starts with a great idea and teamwork."

- Garrett Camp

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

- Mark Twain

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal."

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Harry S Truman

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."

- William Faulkner

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

"Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

- Jane Goodall

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Margaret Carty

"Ask your colleagues for help—early and often."

- Jill Konrath

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

- Earl Nightingale

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends."

- Michael Scott

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich."

- Jim Carrey

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it."

- Anne Lamott

"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path."

- Buddha

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- George Eliot

"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

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend."

- Walt Disney

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Fred Allen

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

- Neil Gaiman

"Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out."

- Garth Ennis

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Joe Girard

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Amelia Earhart

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

- Mark Cuban

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

- Paulo Coelho

"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that."

- Ellen Degeneres

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Banksy

"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."

- Chris Bradford

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

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

- Michele Ruiz

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

- David Frost

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Simone Biles

"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Joyce Brothers

"Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal."

- Patrick Lencioni

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success."

- Ted Sundquist

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

- Virginia Burden

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Michael Jordan

"It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Every single failure has an equally great upside if you are willing to stay in the game."

- Barbara Corcoran

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Marcus Garvey

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Max DePree

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changes really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Samuel Johnson

"You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection."

- Buddha

"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

"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

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

- George Lucas

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

- Robert Hall

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen King

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

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Eraldo Banovac

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Pamela Stroko

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Joyce Brothers

"Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Stephen Covey

"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 Sack

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Joyce Chapman

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Francis of Assisi

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Michael Larsen

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Beverly Sills

"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

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Saint Francis

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

"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

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Henry Ford

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

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

- Robert Collier

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Mark Cuban

"You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed. You’re not gonna succeed all the time and I know that."

- LeBron James

"Let us all be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves."

- Terry Orlick

"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything."

- Tahir Shah

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

- Charles Darwin

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others."

- Jon Gordon

"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

"If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."

- Jack Canfield

"Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Jack London

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

- Mark Twain

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs."

- Jillian Michaels

"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

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"A ship in a harbour is safe, but it’s not fulfilling its potential."

- Susan Jeffers

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there."

- John Assaraf

"If you haven’t made any mistakes lately you must be doing something wrong."

- Susan Jeffers

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"Long—range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."

- Peter F. Drucker

"No risk it, no biscuit."

- Andy Reid

"Taking risks doesn’t mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities."

- Vick Hope

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Alan Cohen

"Real rest feels like every cell is thanking you for taking care of you. It’s calm, not full of checklists and chores. It’s simple: not multitasking; not fixing broken things."

- Jennifer Williamson

"Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective."

- Doe Zantamata

"Almost everything will work if you unplug it for a few minutes… including you."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Emily Giffin

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

- Michael Lopp

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges."

- Amit Ray

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

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Maya Angelou

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

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

- Kevin Kruse

"Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision."

- Ben Horowitz

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Pete Cashmore

"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

"The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win."

- Tom Brady

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place."

- Satya Nadella

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

"Prepare while others are daydreaming."

- William Arthur Ward

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"Experience tells you what to do. Confidence allows you to do it."

- Stan Smith

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

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her."

- Laozi

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

- Bryant McGill

"Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you’ll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving."

- Carol S. Dweck

"You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

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

- Donovan Bailey

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

- Stephen King

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune."

- Sam Walton

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

"The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret."

- Chloe Kim

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"True heroes are made of hard work and integrity."

- Hope Solo

"Elevate true productivity over the appearance of hard work."

- Scott Belsky

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"People doing good work feel good and people doing exceptional work feel exceptional. Accomplishments contribute greatly to satisfaction."

- Mark Sanborn

"Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work."

- Dustin Moskovitz

"An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down."

- Reid Hoffman

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term."

- Reed Hastings

"Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision."

- Jim Stovall

"I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football."

- Jen Welter

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

"The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%."

- Rob Kalin

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

- Mary Kay Ash

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

- James Cash Penney

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

- Charles F. Kettering

"You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby."

- Larry Page

"You don’t achieve success, you attract success."

- Farshad Asl

"It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail."

- Caterina Fake

"You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice."

- Seth Godin

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others."

- Norman Shidle

"Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together."

- Brené Brown

"Some people see innovation as change, but we have never really seen it like that. It’s making things better."

- Tim Cook

"Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"There’s always an opportunity to make a difference."

- Michael Dell

"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world."

- Melinda Gates

"If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want."

- Richard Yates

"All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation."

- Max McKeown

"You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be."

- Janet Fitch

"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."

- Gena Showalter

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

- Denis Waitley

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

"Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Barry

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

- Henry Ford

"If you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world."

- Amy Poehler

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"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

"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything."

- Malcolm X

"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

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

- Peter Drucker

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!""

- Audrey Hepburn

"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."

- Brene Brown

"We must all learn not only to not fear change, but to embrace it enthusiastically and, perhaps even more important, encourage and drive it."

- Tony Hsieh

"Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination."

- Chris Hadfield

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"Hire character. Train skill."

- Peter Schutz

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."

- Phillip Roth

"Imitation is suicide."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Madeleine L’Engle

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Harvey Mackay

"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

"There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more."

- Robert M. Hensel

"It will never be done. It’s a continuous exercise."

- Dara Khosrowshahi

"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right."

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Simon Sinek

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead."

- RuPaul

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

- Amelia Earhart

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

- Seth Godin

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing."

- Marc Chagall

"You are never too small to make a difference."

- Greta Thunberg

"If you don’t give people a chance to fail, you won’t innovate. If you want to be an innovative company, allow people to make mistakes."

- Indra Nooyi

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved."

- Shuri

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace."

- Doug Conant

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow."

- Jack Welch

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

- Chinua Achebe

"Be undeniable."

- Ralphie May

"Rest and be thankful."

- William Wordsworth

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."

- Roald Dahl

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

- Carl Sagan

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

- Hermann Hesse

"There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing."

- Aristotle

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big."

- Tom Hirshfield

"It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it’s hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees."

- Tony Fadell

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Our love is so big. It has room for everybody."

- Cari Tuna

"The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate–it’s either in their DNA or it’s not."

- Richard Branson

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

- Coco Chanel

"Act as if it was, and it will be."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Some companies don’t have an engagement problem, they have a hiring problem."

- Bob Kelleher

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

- Albert Einstein

"When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning, is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

- John Lennon

"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital."

- Mark Hyman

"Our bodies are our gardens — our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it."

- Heather Morgan

"Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit — the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well—being."

- Greg Anderson

"Men search all their lives for power and fame without attaining either, because they do not recognize that the real source of both is within their own minds."

- Napoleon Hill

"Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

- George S. Patton Jr.

"To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

- William Londen

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

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease—free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well—being — in body, mind, and spirit."

- Greg Anderson

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"The mind is just like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow."

- Thibaut

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two."

- Douglas Adams

"To err is human—and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

- Robert Orben

"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."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Progress, not perfection."

"Leadership. It's not just a big boat; it's a way of life."

"You are born looking like your daddy, but you die looking like your decisions."

"All bad behavior is an unskilled expression of an unmet need."

"Your lack of planning is not my emergency."

"You did the best you could at the time."

"Don’t ask something of someone else, you wouldn’t do yourself."

"Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy. If you lose, you’ll be wise."

"If you can’t be kind, you can still be quiet."

"Think twice, speak once."

"Those who do can’t teach, and those who teach can’t do."