100+ Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Empower Your Employees

"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.

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Thomas Edison

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- African Proverb

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

"You 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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Winston Churchill

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Confucius

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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."

- Pelé

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

- Winston Churchill

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Buddha

"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

"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

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

- John Assaraf

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

- Robert Collier

"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

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

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Marcus Garvey

"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

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Carol S. Dweck

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Helen Keller

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Excellence is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Robert Collier

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Helen Keller

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

- Vivian Greene

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Robert Schuller

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

- Albert Szent-Györgyi

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way."

- Tom Freston

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Socrates

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

- Margaret Cousins

"People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise, and rewards."

- Dale Carnegie

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

- Alan Cohen

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise."

- Sam Walton

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

"You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."

- Ken Kesey

"Accountability separates the wishers from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions."

- John Di Lemme

"Empowerment is the key to a fulfilling life. The greatest empowerment is the realization of one’s own power."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Accountability breeds responsibility."

- Stephen R. Covey

"If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have."

- Pat Summitt

"When you take ownership of your own actions, you hold the key to your future."

- Allan Lokos

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"It”s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Winston Churchill

"Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Brian Herbert

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

- Albert Einstein

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you”ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Steve Jobs

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"It’s not about the number of hours you put in, but rather what you put into those hours."

- Simon Sinek

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

- Harvey S. Firestone

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

- Donovan Bailey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Stephen King

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Estee Lauder

"You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dale Carnegie

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Jonas Salk

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Work hard, be brave."

- Casey Neistat

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be."

- Robert Collier

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

- Lou Holtz

"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."

- Les Brown

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

- Napoleon Hill

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Dream big. Start small. Act now."

- Robin Sharma

"There’s no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

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

- Booker T. Washington

"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

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Reid Hoffman

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

- Abby Wambach

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"If you can laugh together, you can work together."

- Robert Orben

"The whole is better than the sum of the parts."

- Kurt Koffka

"We may all have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."

- Martin Luther King Jr

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

- Ken Blanchard

"There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win."

- Michael Jordan

"Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality."

- John C Maxwell

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

- Vince Lombardi

"Collaboration is multiplication."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Kevin Kruse

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

- Rosalynn Carter

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

- Napoleon Hill

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- George Lucas

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

- Robert Hall

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen King

"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

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Saint Francis

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

- Kiana To

"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

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

- Harry Golden

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

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

- Proverb

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Joyce Chapman

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Phil Jackson

"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

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Ed Catmull

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Susan Jeffers

"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

"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

"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

"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

"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."

- Mother Teresa

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"Teamwork is a make-or-break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you."

- James Cash Penney

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"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

"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

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Emily Voyles

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

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

- Eraldo Banovac

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

- Mary Kay Ash

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

"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

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

- George Lorimer

"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 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.

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Stephen Hawking

"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

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Chris Hadfield

"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

"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

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

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

- Joyce Brothers

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Bob Kelleher

"Prepare while others are daydreaming."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Greta Thunberg

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

- Peter F. Drucker

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Vick Hope

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

- Charles Schwab

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

- Michele Ruiz

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

- Susan Jeffers

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

- Chloe Kim

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

- Amit Ray

"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

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

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

- Michael Lopp

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

- Banksy

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Alan Cohen

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

- Tom Brady

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Malcolm X

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Frank A. Clark

"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

"If you want to turn your life around, try to be thankful. It will change your life mightily."

- Gerald Good

"Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone."

- Gertrude Stein

"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

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

- Willie Nelson

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful."

- Buddha

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."

- Benjamin E. Mays

"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."

- Albert Barnes

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

"Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion."

- Mindy Kaling

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."

- Maya Angelou

"Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Bryant McGill

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

- Tricia Cunningham

"It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other."

- Thomas Stallkamp

"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

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Epictetus

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

- William James

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves and spend without fear of bankruptcy."

- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

- Scott Hamilton

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Positivity always wins…Always."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Joseph Barbara

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- David Frost

"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

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

- Peter T. McIntyre

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Buddha

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

- Stan Smith

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Sun Tzu

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."

- Sarah Louise Delany

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

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

- Dylan Thomas

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

- Helena Rubinstein

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

"No risk it, no biscuit."

- Andy Reid

"Rest and be thankful."

- William Wordsworth

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

- Anita Roddick

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

- Anne Lamott

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Doe Zantamata

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Roald Dahl

"The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."

- Robert Tew

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

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

"You are capable of more than you know."

- Unknown

"A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

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

"Stay focused and never give up."

"Believe in your abilities."

"Work hard. Dream big."

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

"Keep moving forward."

"You’ve got the passion, the drive, now unleash it."

"Do not wait for opportunity. Create it."

"Stay positive, work hard, and make it happen."

"You’ve got this, keep pushing forward."

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

- Unknown

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it."

"Dare to dream big."

"Ownership is not a matter of holding things but a matter of holding on to things."

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."