Inspiring Employee Quotes to Ignite Your Team's Potential

Discover a powerful collection of inspiring employee quotes that motivate and uplift. These words of wisdom from renowned leaders and thinkers can transform your workplace culture and drive success. From teamwork to perseverance, these quotes encapsulate the essence of hard work and collaboration. Use them to inspire your team, foster a positive work environment, and encourage personal growth. Whether you're a manager looking to motivate your employees or an individual seeking inspiration, this collection is sure to resonate. Dive into these quotes and let them guide you towards achieving your goals and creating a thriving workplace.

Wisdom from the Masters

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

Teamwork

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

- Barack Obama

Failure

"If two men on the same job agree all the time, one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless."

- Darryl F. Zanuck

Teamwork

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

"Success is not about being the best. It’s about always getting better."

- Behdad Sami

Success

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

Success

"The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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

Success

"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."

- Robin Sharma

Growth

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

Success

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

Strength

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."

- John Quincy Adams

Leadership

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

Hard Work

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

- Mark Twain

Success

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

Success

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

- Henry Ford

Integrity

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

Resilience

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

- Zig Ziglar

Belief in Self

"Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Hard Work

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

- Robert Collier

Success

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

Determination

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Transformation

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facing Fears

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

- Aristotle

Success

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

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

"Work as if someone is working 24 hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

Hard Work

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Success is never accidental."

- Jack Dorsey

Success

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

- Walt Disney

Motivation

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

Leadership

"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

Leadership

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Teamwork

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

""Believe you can and you are halfway there.""

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

""Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.""

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

""Stand together as a team. With integrity, vision, and determination together you will succeed where others cannot.""

- Successories

Teamwork

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

- Colin Powell

Hard Work

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

- Jonathan Sack

Hard Work

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

""When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as one...the sky's the limit.""

- Successories

Teamwork

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

- Vidal Sassoon

Hard Work

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

- Aristotle

Success

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

- Successories

Teamwork

"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.

Motivation

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Successories

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

""Excellence is never an accident; it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities.""

- Successories

Achievement

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

""Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.""

- Successories

Achievement

"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

Leadership

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

- Napoleon Hill

Success

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

- Warren Buffett

Self-improvement

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

- LeBron James

Courage

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

- George Lucas

Hard Work

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

- African Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Mark Cuban

Hard Work

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

- Stephen King

Hard Work

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

- Patrick Suskind

Hard Work

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

- Mark Cuban

Vision

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

""Sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.""

- Madam C. J. Walker

Motivation

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

- Douglas MacArthur

Leadership

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

- Stephen R. Covey

Leadership

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

Responsibility

"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be."

- Lou Holtz

Belief in Self

"Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."

- Michael Jordan

Hard Work

"What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world."

- Simon Sinek

Creativity

"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

Ambition

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

Belief

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

Motivation

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

- Sam Levenson

Time Management

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

- Albert Pujols

Happiness

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

- Tim Notke

Hard Work

"By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well."

- Richard Branson

Leadership

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

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

- Warren Buffett

Self-improvement

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

- Madam C.J Walker

Empowerment

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

- Mark Twain

Success

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

- Edmund Hillary

Achievement

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

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

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

- Zig Ziglar

Success

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

- Mary Kay Ash

Belief in Self

""Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

- Neil Gaiman

Creativity

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."

- Wade Boggs

Positivity

"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?"

- Ayn Rand

Resilience

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

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

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

""Success is not by chance, it takes someone willing to climb a mountain full of obstacles and challenges. It may seem insurmountable from a distance, but if you imagine with all your mind and believe with all your heart, you will reach the top.""

- Successories

Success

""Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.""

- Successories

Success

""Leadership is about capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of your people with clearly defined goals that cut through the fog like a beacon in the night.""

- Successories

Leadership

""A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. A person does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of one's actions and the integrity of one's intent. In the end, leaders are much like eagles... they don't flock, you find them one at a time.""

- Successories

Leadership

""Service is the lifeblood of any organization. Everything flows from it and is nourished by it. Customer service is not a department... it's an attitude.""

- Successories

Service

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

""The high road to service is traveled with integrity, compassion and understanding; people don't care how much we know until they know how much we care.""

- Successories

Service

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

- Yoda

Determination

"Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait."

- Robert De Niro

Taking Risks

"Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

Learning

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

- Stephen King

Hard Work

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

- Henry Ford

Belief

""Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.""

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

Integrity

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Courage

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

Resilience

"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

Teamwork

"Whatever you decide to do, do it with passion and all of the energy that you have."

- Mary Barra

Motivation

"With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination."

- Michael Phelps

Creativity

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Adaptation

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

Positivity

"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone."

- Karen Salmansohn

New Beginnings

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Creativity

"Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top."

- Paul Coffey

Hard Work

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

Success

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Socrates

Change

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Growth

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Perseverance

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible."

- Ronnie Oldham

Success

"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

Growth

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

- Tony Hsieh

Change

"You can have all the potential in the world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing."

- Tyra Banks

Self-confidence

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

- Coco Chanel

Originality

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

- Michele Ruiz

Motivation

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

- Chloe Kim

Courage

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

- Michelle Obama

Self-awareness

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

- Mark Cuban

Vision

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

- LeBron James

Courage

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

- Anita Roddick

Empowerment

"Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

- Denis Waitley

Growth

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

Determination

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

- Robert Hall

Hard Work

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

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

- Harry Golden

Hard Work

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

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

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

- Calvin Coolidge

Hard Work

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

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

- Jimmy Johnson

Success

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

- Kevin Kruse

Success

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Anne Frank

Inspiration

"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

Leadership

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

- Fred Allen

Teamwork

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

- Jag Randhawa

Teamwork

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

- Angela Ahrendts

Leadership

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

- Stanley McChrystal

Leadership

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

- Meghan M. Biro

Respect

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

- Jack Welch

Leadership

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

Teamwork

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

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

- Arnold Glasow

Leadership

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

- Max DePree

Growth

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Respect

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

- Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Leadership

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

Teamwork

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

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

- Emily Voyles

Teamwork

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

- Lloyd Dobens

Teamwork

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

- Mark Twain

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

""It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.""

- William James

Motivation

""It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.""

- Zig Ziglar

Resilience

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

- Lou Holtz

Resilience

""Take time out every day to be thankful for the people in our lives that drive us toward the path of success and for those that have helped us get to where we are today. Have an attitude of gratitude.""

- Successories

Gratitude

""Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows.""

- Helen Keller

Positivity

""Your attitude, almost always determines your altitude in life.""

- Successories

Motivation

""The one thing that you have that no one else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, and your passion. Start every day your way.""

- Successories

Self-awareness

""We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.""

- Einstein

Insight

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

- Socrates

Change

""It takes courage to step off of the familiar to embrace the new and unknown future. But when you do, the possibilities are endless.""

- Successories

Courage

""In the confrontation between the river and the rock, the river always wins...not through strength but by perseverance.""

- Successories

Perseverance

""Take the initiative and lead the way. You can make the difference.""

- Successories

Leadership

""A leader's job is to look into the future, and to see the organization not as it is...but as it can become.""

- Successories

Leadership

""Do what you know is right...always. With commitment to your deepest convictions you stand tall against time and tide.""

- Successories

Integrity

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

- Hasidic Proverb

Self-confidence

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Leadership

"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

Hard Work

"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

Hard Work

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

- Kiana To

Success

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

- Eraldo Banovac

Leadership

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

- Mary Kay Ash

Leadership

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

- Albert Einstein

Leadership

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

- Saint Francis

Motivation

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

Leadership

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

- Pamela Stroko

Leadership

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

- Dale Carnegie

Happiness

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

- Bob Nelson

Leadership

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

- Bob Nelson

Leadership

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

Hard Work

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

Leadership

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

Leadership

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

Leadership

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

Resilience

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

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

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

- Jim Rohn

Education

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

- Ed Catmull

Teamwork

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

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

- Tom Brady

Ambition

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Motivation

""Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.""

- Larry Page

Ambition

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

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"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

Hard Work

""Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.""

- Vincent Van Gogh

Achievement

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

- Florence Nightingale

Success

""To stand apart from the competition, you must first stand together as a team.""

- Successories

Teamwork

""Problems become opportunities when the right people join together.""

- Successories

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Beverly Sills

Success

""It is our differences that bring us together. It is our differences that make our ideas more meaningful. It is our differences that create a team that is one of a kind.""

- Successories

Teamwork

""Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.""

- Successories

Teamwork

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

- Stephen Covey

Motivation

""It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.""

- Successories

Teamwork

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

- Harry S. Truman

Teamwork

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

""A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst...a spark that creates extraordinary results.""

- Successories

Positivity

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

- Lou Holtz

Motivation

"You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context."

- José Mourinho

Teamwork

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

- Dalai Lama

Gratitude

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K.Rowling

Failure

""Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.""

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Motivation

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Compassion

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

- Malcolm X

Belief

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?"

- Jill Konrath

Determination

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."

- Bill Gates

Success

"Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck."

- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Perseverance

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

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

""Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.""

- Richard Branson

Failure

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

Imagination

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

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Awareness

"You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them."

- Saji Ijiyemi

Goals

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

Personal Growth

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

- Joseph Barbara

Happiness

""Accountability is paramount. It is easy to dodge responsibilities, but regardless of conditions the consequences of avoidance cannot be dodged.""

- Successories

Responsibility

""True strength is not in showing the world how strong you are but having the strength to win the battles the world knows nothing about.""

- Successories

Strength

"Refuse failure. No matter how difficult the obstacles, find a way to around them."

- JJ Goldwag

Courage

""Extraordinary service is the result of anticipating the need and providing the solution before the customer requires it.""

- Successories

Service

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

Hope

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

"If you’re alive, you’re a creative person."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity

""The road to success is sometimes long and arduous. It takes unwavering commitment and a will to succeed in order to complete the journey.""

- Successories

Success

""Well done, is better than well said.""

- Benjamin Franklin

Success

""It is attitude, not circumstance, that makes success possible in even the most unlikely conditions.""

- Successories

Motivation

"Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world. I think that's just a horrible thing."

- John Skoll

Empowerment

"The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?"

- Steve Schulte

Resilience

""Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.""

- Successories

Goals

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

- Buddha

Compassion

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

- Tom Brady

Ambition

""Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.""

- Winston Churchill

Courage

""When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.""

- Henry J. Kaiser

Success

"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Self-awareness

""Your true character is revealed by the clarity of your convictions, the choices you make, and the promises you keep.""

- Successories

Integrity

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

- Proverb

Motivation

""Each day begins with new hope. Make today a day filled with a commitment to excellence.""

- Successories

Motivation

""Approach every challenge with a level head, unwavering focus and a determination to light the way for others to succeed.""

- Successories

Leadership

"It takes courage to step off of the familiar to embrace the new and unknown future. But when you do, the possibilities are endless."

- Successories

New Beginnings

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving."

- Conrad Hilton

Determination

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

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

"Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want."

- Ken Poirot

Future

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Taking Risks

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

- Jim Rohn

Personal Growth

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

Perseverance

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

Personal Growth

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

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

- Peter Drucker

Vision

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

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

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

- Michelle Obama

Success

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

Success

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

- Vince Lombardi

Well-being

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Relationships

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

Teamwork

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

Integrity

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

Integrity

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

Belief in Self

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."

- Michael Jordan

Belief

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

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

Failure

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

Resilience

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

- Walt Disney

Resilience

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

""Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.""

- Abraham Lincoln

Hard Work

"Don’t try to be the ‘next.’ Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."

- Seth Godin

Originality

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

Hard Work

"The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least."

- Barack Obama

Courage

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

- Doug Conant

Teamwork

""Change is life giving. It helps us grow into someone greater than we already are.""

- Successories

Change

"We all tend to filter the world around us through what we know. So try and go beyond what you already know, fill your mind with the new, nourish it with different interests, open it to the extraordinary. Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision."

- Sergio Marchionne

Growth

"The more things you’re interested in, the better your work will be."

- Michael Bierut

Creativity

"Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell."

- David Ogilvy

Change

""Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.""

- Proverb

Motivation

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

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

Determination

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

- Aristotle

Courage

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

- Ben Horowitz

Choice

"You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Perseverance

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."

- Mildred Struven

Transformation

"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."

- Habeeb Akande

Adversity

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

Ambition

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

- Helena Rubinstein

Hard Work

"History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you."

- Abraham Lincoln

Leadership

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

Insight

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Balance

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

- Richard Branson

Empowerment

"The world is full of ideas today. If we don’t do it, somebody else is going to do it."

- Indra Nooyi

Ambition

"First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events."

- Marie Curie

Courage

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room."

- Confucius

Self-awareness

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

- Chris Hadfield

Mindfulness

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Mindfulness

"Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head."

- Donald Knuth

Efficiency

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

- Bill Gates

Determination

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Resilience

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

- Plato

Courage

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

- Zig Ziglar

Success

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much of Today."

- Will Rogers

Mindfulness

"Genius is born—not paid."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

Success

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

- David Brinkley

Resilience

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

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

- Tony Robbins

Success

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

- Michelle Obama

Personal Growth

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

- Anita Roddick

Empowerment

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

- Pete Cashmore

Resilience

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Motivation

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

- Michael Larsen

Hard Work

""If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.""

- Abraham Maslow

Insight

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

Hard Work

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

- Ben Horowitz

Choice

"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

Teamwork

""The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?""

- Steve Schulte

Positivity

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

- Michael Lopp

Resilience

"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."

- Alan Turing

Inspiration

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

- Henry J. Kaiser

Integrity

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Alice

Transformation

"It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."

- Rebecca Wells

Adaptation

"Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does."

- Warren Buffet

Responsibility

"It ain’t over ’til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

Perseverance

"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."

- Frank Ocean

Success

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

- Will Rogers

Determination

"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition

"Life is unpredictable. Don’t close your minds to possibilities."

- Llyod Blankfein

Adaptation

"You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast."

- Jack Dorsey

Focus

"If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning."

- Mark Twain

Taking Risks

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

- A.C. Benson

Change

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

- Tom Hirshfield

Goals

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

- Bill Murray

Motivation

"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom."

- Lauren Oliver

Adversity

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Resilience

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Success

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

Motivation

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

Focus

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

Hard Work

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

Hard Work

"Fridays are for focusing, finishing, and celebrating the week’s successes."

Reflection

"Your only limit is you."

- Unknown

Belief in Self

"Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people."

Aspirations

"Take the initiative and lead the way. You can make the difference."

Leadership

"Don’t count the hours you put in; put the hours in that count."

Productivity

"Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it."

Creativity

"Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go."

Personal Growth

"Focus on the good, and the good gets better."

Positivity

"Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it."

Success

""What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.""

Imagination

"Do what you know is right always. With commitment to your deepest convictions you stand tall against time and tide."

Integrity

"Every second counts."

Time Management

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

- Unknown

Perseverance