Inspiring Employee Quotes to Ignite Your Team's Potential

"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

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

- H.E. Luccock

"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

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

- Behdad Sami

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Barack Obama

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Gary Player

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mark Twain

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Robert Collier

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aristotle

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Henry Ford

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is never accidental."

- Jack Dorsey

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- George Lucas

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

- African Proverb

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen King

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

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Yoda

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

- Robert De Niro

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"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

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

- Tim Notke

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Sam Levenson

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Madam C. J. Walker

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Stephen King

""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 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

""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

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

- Mark Cuban

""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

""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

""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

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

- Warren Buffett

""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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

""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

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

- Winston Churchill

""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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

""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

""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

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

- Successories

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Madam C.J Walker

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

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Jonathan Sack

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

"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.

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Wade Boggs

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Kevin Kruse

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

- Robert Hall

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Mary Barra

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

- Michael Phelps

"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

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

- George Addair

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Karen Salmansohn

"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

"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

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Socrates

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

"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

"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

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

- Tyra Banks

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Michele Ruiz

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

- Chloe Kim

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

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

- Anita Roddick

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Successories

""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

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

"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

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

- Doug Conant

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

- Michael Bierut

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

"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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Proverb

"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

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

- Malcolm X

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Bill Gates

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

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

- Joseph Barbara

"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

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

- JJ Goldwag

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Steve Schulte

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Buddha

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

- Tom Brady

"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

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

- Harry S. Truman

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Successories

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- William James

""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

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

- Lou Holtz

""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

""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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Successories

""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

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

- Einstein

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

- Socrates

""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

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

""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

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

""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

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

- Successories

""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

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Successories

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

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

- Larry Page

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

- Tom Brady

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

- Ed Catmull

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

- Successories

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

- Successories

""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

""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

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

- Successories

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Ari Weinzweig

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

- Komil Toume

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Vince Lombardi

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Pamela Stroko

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Chris Grosser

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Albert Einstein

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Ken Poirot

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Walter Elliot

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Eraldo Banovac

"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

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Emily Voyles

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Arnold Glasow

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

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

- Jack Welch

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

- Meghan M. Biro

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

- José Mourinho

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

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- Angela Ahrendts

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

- Fred Allen

"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

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Jag Randhawa

"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

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

- Max DePree

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Walt Disney

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Saint Francis

"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

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Bill Gates

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Will Rogers

"Genius is born—not paid."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Indra Nooyi

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Ben Horowitz

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Helena Rubinstein

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Abraham Maslow

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."

- Habeeb Akande

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

- Chris Hadfield

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Ben Horowitz

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Warren Buffet

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Anita Roddick

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

- Llyod Blankfein

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

- Michael Lopp

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

- Rebecca Wells

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Michael Larsen

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

- Alice

"It ain’t over ’til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Tom Hirshfield

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Alan Turing

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Steve Schulte

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

- Jack Dorsey

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

- A.C. Benson

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

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Bill Murray

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

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

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

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

"Your only limit is you."

- Unknown

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

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

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

""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.""

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

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

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

"Every second counts."

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