50 Inspirational Work Quotes to Power Your Thursday

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Walt Disney

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Helen Keller

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Confucius

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Dalai Lama

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"Don't count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Embrace them this Thursday."

- Joshua J. Marine

"As the end of the week approaches, Thursday should be a day for persistence, not inconsistence."

- Byron Pulsifer

"You're off to great places; today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

- Dr. Seuss

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind"

- Joyce Meyer

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'Thank you?'"

- William A. Ward

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

- Kate Summers

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Start shaping your future this Thursday."

- Peter Drucker

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Make it your goal to make someone smile on this Thursday by a small act of kindness; you could change a person's life in a way you may not even realize."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"One of the best things you can do on Thursday is to keep yourself held accountable for your goals."

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Kate Summers

"One small positive thought on this Thursday morning can change your whole day."

- Tahnni Dupre

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!"

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Kate Summers

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work."

- Nick Saban

"Count your blessings’ is such a common expression that it has become a catchphrase. Yet it contains powerful truth and meaning: Be grateful for what you have – and for what you don't have."

- Robert W. Bly

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

- Germany Kent

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Anne Dillard

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

- WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

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

- Vivian Greene

"every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Joshua Tongol

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Walt Whitman

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Simon Sinek

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- William James

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Buddha

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

- William Arthur Ward

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Jean Vanier

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- David Brinkley

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be"

- Harvey McKay

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

- George Lorimer

"I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day."

- Paul Henderson

"If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning."

- Larry Page

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

- Mel Gibson

"Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have."

- Lemony Snicket

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

- George Herbert

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times."

- Ovid

"Every morning is a reminder to let go of the past and embrace the present."

- Tonmoy Acharjee

"Let others determine your worth, and you're already lost because no one wants people worth more than themselves."

- Peter V. Brett

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare."

- Benjamin Dover

"Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- April Winchell

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

- Giles, Giles & Fripp

"hump day."

- Dean Johnston

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

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

- Unknown

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

"Thursday is the day to discover the strength to push through and finish strong."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are."

"You make time for the people you care about. If someone can't make time for you, then you are not a priority to them."

"You are exactly where you decided to be."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The time will pass anyway."

"Dreams don’t work unless you do"

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

"Thursdays are just wannabe Fridays, but with the right attitude, they can still be fantastic!"

"Every Thursday is a step closer to the weekend."

"If you can stand on tiptoes, you can see Friday. There's light at the end of the weekend tunnel!"

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

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"Thursdays are for dreamers waiting for the weekend but living for today."

"Thursdays: When you can almost taste the weekend but still have time to shine today."

"Thursdays are for channeling your inner superhero and tackling your to-do list like a boss."

"Every Thursday, my brain thinks about the weekend while my body is stuck at work."

"Thursday mornings are like a game of Jenga. You're trying to keep it all together until Friday, but sometimes it all falls apart."