Inspiring Teamwork: 50 Motivational Quotes to Ignite Your Team's Spirit

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Terry Orlick

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"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

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Jim Stovall

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Seth Godin

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Hope Solo

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

- Reed Hastings

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Helen Keller

"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take."

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. 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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Brené Brown

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

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

- Proverb

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

- Joe Echevarria

"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth."

- Amit Ray

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"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

"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

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Elon Musk

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Henry Ford

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

"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

"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 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

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- James Cash Penney

"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

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

- Cari Tuna

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

- Simon Mainwaring

"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

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

- Scott Belsky

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

- Ken Blanchard

"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

"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

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

- Garrett Camp

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

- Mary Kay Ash

"We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

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

- Satya Nadella

"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

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

- Ted Sundquist

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Madeleine Albright

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- John Wooden

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

"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

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Lynda Barry

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble."

- Serena Williams

"A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either."

- Orrin Woodward

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time."

- Brené Brown

"The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team."

- Lewis B. Ergen

"You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins."

- John C. Maxwell

"Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

- Mae Jemison

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

- Simon Sinek

"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

"Gentle reader, may you never be lucky. I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Abby Wambach

"You manage things; you lead people."

- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it. That’s purpose. And that’s the key to achieving something truly transformational."

- Marillyn Hewson

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Joe Girard

"Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less-than-perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful."

- Mark Victor Hansen

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"No one ever achieved greatness being mediocre."

- Reed Hastings

"Our greatest innovations come from teams who have the courage to experiment and learn."

- Satya Nadella

"What separates successful people from others is an extra. Ordinary effort is rarely enough."

- Indra Nooyi

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"The most important thing is to try your best. Even if you fail, if you try everything, you will have no regrets."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Vince Lombardi

"There is no teamwork without trust. And there is no trust without vulnerability."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

"Pour your heart into making sure every member of your team feels empowered to be their best. Invest in them. Develop them. Then watch them soar."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"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

"Teams that succeed have healthy trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose."

- Maryanne Radmacher

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

- Confucius

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

- Arianna Huffington

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Failure is an opportunity to learn. Setbacks are inevitable. Learn from them, and come back stronger."

- Mary Barra

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Walt Disney

"Failing is a crucial part of success. Every time you fail and get back up, you practice perseverance, which is the key to life. Your strength comes in your ability to recover."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Aristotle

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Ken Blanchard

"A leader must inspire or his team will expire."

- Orrin Woodward

"Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do."

- Robert Schuller

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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 great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying."

- Chris Bradford

"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

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

- Wilma Rudolph

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Kevin Kruse

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Florence Nightingale

"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 Sack

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

- Harry S. Truman

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Anne Frank

"Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures."

- Sam Walton

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion."

- Terry Orlick, Ph. D.

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Little things that seem insignificant in the doing, yet when compounded over time yield very big results. You could call these 'little virtues' or 'success habits.' I call them simple daily disciplines. Simple productive actions, repeated consistently over time. That, in a nutshell, is the slight edge."

- Jeff Olson

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

"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

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

- James G. Bilkey

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Virginia Burden

"If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know it is impossible."

- Maya Angelou

"Collaboration is the engine that drives innovation."

- Joel Brown

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working as a team because they respect the man next to them."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

- Kwame Nkrumah

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Rosalynn Carter

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"You are either supporting the vision or supporting division."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

- Althea Gibson

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Jim Hightower

"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus."

- Simon Mainwaring

"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but: how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?"

- Florence Nightingale

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you."

- Michelle Obama

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?""

- Brian Tracy

"I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that’s the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we’re doing. They have to understand that it’s O.K. to have good days and bad days."

- Dawn Staley

"Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?"

- Adam Grant

"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

"The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong, are ‘accept responsibility.’"

- Billie Jean King

"Whatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything."

- Katia Beauchamp

"In the end, a great leader is only known by the impact he or she has on others."

- Jim Stovall

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

- Seth Godin

"Whether you work for yourself or others, there will be moments when you feel unhappy or stuck. You can’t control everything around you, but in those moments, remind yourself that you are powerful and that even small, strategic moves can create big shifts for the better."

- Trae Bodge

"Creating the culture of burnout is the opposite of creating a culture of sustainable creativity."

- Arianna Huffington

"Inclusivity means not ‘just we’re allowed to be there,’ but we are valued. I’ve always said: smart teams will do amazing things, but truly diverse teams will do impossible things."

- Claudia Brind-Woody

"Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different."

- Indra Nooyi

"Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO."

- Max McKeown

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering and often earns you new respect."

- Rosalind Brewer

"Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realize you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of."

- Jen Sincero

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your personal goals, then it’s moving you away from your personal goals."

- Brian Tracy

"Don’t dance around the perimeter of the person you want to be. Dive deeply and fully into it."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"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

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Jim Rohn

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

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

- Robert Collier

"You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond."

- Debbie Reynolds

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

- Julie Andrews

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

- Anne Sweeney

"I’ve always approached things with hunger and just enough fear. Plenty of confidence, you know, but just enough fear to work extra hard. Paralyzing fear does nothing, but the kind of fear that makes you nervous enough to really be aware and focused? I like that kind of fear."

- Queen Latifah

"In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Jim Rohn

"I’ve found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ph.D.

"Don’t try to rush progress. Remember, a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing."

- Kara Goucher

"I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training."

- Dustin Poirier

"Too little confidence, and you’re unable to act. Too much confidence and you’re unable to hear."

- John Maeda

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

- Michael Larsen

"What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"We are all here because we need each other."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Mark Sanborn

"To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, “Your end of the boat is sinking.”"

- Hugh Downs

"Walt Disney told his crew to ‘Build the castle first’ when constructing Disney World, knowing that vision would continue to serve as motivation throughout the project. Oftentimes when people fail to achieve what they want in life, it’s because their vision isn’t strong enough."

- Gail Blanke

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

"There are four ingredients in true leadership: brains, soul, heart, and good nerves."

- Klaus Schwab

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"What I always say is, ‘Do every job you’re in like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.’"

- Mary Barra

"People were my day job—business was my night job. We have to be who we are. We have to live according to our values. I don’t care where we are, Dubai, Tokyo, etc.—it doesn’t make any difference."

- Howard Behar

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."

- Pele

"If you live in the past, that’s depression, and if you live in the future, that’s anxiety. So you have no choice but to live in the present."

- Sarah Silverman

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."

- Richard Branson

"If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life."

- Brian Chesky

"Determine what behaviors and beliefs you value as a company, and have everyone live true to them. These behaviors and beliefs should be so essential to your core that you don’t even think of it as culture."

- Brittany Forsyth

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

- Rosa Parks

"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Mike Singlaub

"Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities—the good ones—are messy, confusing, and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you."

- Susan Wojcicki

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake."

- Mindy Kaling

"People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don’t think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should."

- Taika Waititi

"Learning, without any opportunities to share what we’ve learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won’t do it as well."

- Mike Schmoker

"I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Josh Billings

"When you have a seat at that table, you’ve earned it because you understand human behavior. You understand what your employees need, what their gaps are, and you represent them. But this doesn’t just happen because you say it is so."

- Celia Swanson

"No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done."

- Abigail Johnson

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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

- Robert Orben

"If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing."

- W. Edwards Deming

"I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones."

- John Cage

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

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

- Leslie Nielsen

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

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

"Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength."

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."