Inspiring Quotes to Elevate Your Meetings

"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

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

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Larry Page

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

- Farshad Asl

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Caterina Fake

"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

"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

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

- Dara Khosrowshahi

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

- Melinda Gates

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

- Jill Konrath

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Richard Yates

"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

"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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Hope Solo

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Ted Sundquist

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

- Cari Tuna

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"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

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Robert Orben

"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

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Leslie Nielsen

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Lynda Barry

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

"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

"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

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- John Wooden

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Scott Belsky

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Amy Morin

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

- Rob Kalin

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Mary Kay Ash

"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

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Terry Orlick

"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 where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Robert Collier

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

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

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Steve Jobs

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Michael Jordan

"The plan is to fan this spark into a flame."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Drench yourself in words unspoken / Live your life with arms wide open / Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten"

- Natasha Bedingfield

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

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

- Earl Nightingale

"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Phil Jackson

"Too late for second-guessing / Too late to go back to sleep / It’s time to trust my instincts / Close my eyes and leap."

- Stephen Schwartz

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Yoda

"People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work… Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Harper Lee

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

- Tony Morgan

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Stephen Covey

"Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions."

- Mr. Rogers

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Michael Jordan

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"What I’ve realized is that confidence is a daily journey. We always think that confidence is a destination we must get to, but it’s a choice we make. I don’t think it’s something we ever really get to and stay at. And I think once you know that, it takes the pressure off."

- Jonathan van Ness

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"There will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

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

- Will Rogers

"There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you."

- Kamala Harris

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I’m a survivor / I’m not gonna give up / I’m not gonna stop / I’m gonna work harder"

- Destiny’s Child

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’"

- Cory Booker

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jim Rohn

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

"You can get what you want or you can just get old."

- Billy Joel

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

- Mario Andretti

"There does come a moment when you start saying, ‘I want more,’ and people look at you a little cross-eyed, because it’s loving what you have and also knowing you want to try for more. Sometimes that makes people uncomfortable."

- Ariana DeBose

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

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

- Helen Keller

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team."

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

- Arthur Christopher Benson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Norman Shidle

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."

- Pat Riley

"It’s 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 never accidental."

- Jack Dorsey

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"The difference between a successful person and the rest is not a lack of ability, but a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"The secret of getting ahead is just getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Jim Stovall

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Florence Nightingale

"There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"A team isn’t a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service."

- Brian Tracy

"The reality is: Sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"And how do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you’re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"Self-care is really rooted in self-preservation, just like self-love is rooted in honesty. We have to start being more honest with what we need, and what we deserve, and start serving that to ourselves. It can be a spa day! But for a lot of people, it's more like, I need a mentor. I need someone to talk to. I need to see someone who looks like me that's successful, that's doing the things that I want to do, to know that it's possible."

- Lizzo

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- George Shinn

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Andrena Sawyer

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

- Peter Dinklage

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

- Lizzo

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable."

- Chris Bradford

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Melinda French Gates

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

"Let nothing happen, just for a bit, let the minutes toll in the stunning air, let us lie on our beds like astronauts, hurtling through space and time."

- Olivia Laing

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Richard Bach

"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

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Joseph Campbell

"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."

- Alice Munro

"You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

- Walt Disney

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

- Anna Quindlen

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Nelson Henderson

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment."

- Jim Collins and Jerry Porra

"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Stephen Covey

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."

- Benjamin Mays

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable."

- Denis Waitley

"Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Aristotle

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"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

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

- George Lucas

"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

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

- Fred Allen

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

- Jack Welch

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Emily Voyles

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

- 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

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Boss up and change your life / You can have it all, no sacrifice"

- Lizzo

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will."

- Bob Hooey

"Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking,’ but the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job."

- Roy Bartell

"The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to make statements about them."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise."

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Bill Gates

"Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

- Jack Ma

"Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements and your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses."

- Joel Brown

"Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become an architect of your future."

- Robin Sharma

"It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success."

- Eric Thomas

"If you can change your mind you can change your life."

- William James

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"Success has a price. If you aren’t prepared to pay it, you shouldn’t expect to achieve it."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting."

- Seth Godin

"In teamwork, silence isn't golden, it's deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Amy Poehler

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

- Booker T. Washington

"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

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

- Jag Randhawa

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Questions are more effective than statements in moving others."

- Daniel Pink

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

- David Ogilvy

"Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 percent is persuasion."

- Shiv Khera

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."

- Tom Landry

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

- Kevin Kruse

"The secret to success is the consistency of purpose."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"How you think when you lose determined how long it will be until you win."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Every responsibility you get make it a pocket of greatness."

- Jim Collins

"The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse."

- Jason Mason

"A good plan now is better than a great plan too late."

- Verne Harnish

"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

"A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy."

- Bill Gates

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

- Maya Angelou

"When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose."

- Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Jonathan Sacks

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence- only in constant improvement and constant change."

- Tom Peters

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

- 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

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

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

- Meghan M. Biro

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

- Angela Ahrendts

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Hall

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- David Brinkley

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"If you measure it, it will improve."

- Seth Godin

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

- Max DePree

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Robin Sharma

"In teamwork, silence isn’t golden; it’s deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"What gets measured gets done."

- John Spence

"A common saying around Silicon Valley is execution eats strategy for breakfast."

- Salim Ismail

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

"How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time."

- Frederick Brooks

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

- Michael Larsen

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

- Michael Lopp

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

- Walt Disney

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

"Today is always here, said Sethe. Tomorrow, never."

"You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back."