50 Inspiring Work Quotes to Motivate and Empower Employees

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Robert Collier

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

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

- Thomas Edison

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Henry Ford

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen King

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Winston Churchill

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

- Steve Jobs

"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.

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

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

- Helen Keller

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Tim Notke

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and 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

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

- Walt Disney

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Francis of Assisi

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"There’s no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Lorimer

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it."

- Estee Lauder

"You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be."

- Robert Collier

"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."

- Les Brown

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Chris Grosser

"Dream big. Start small. Act now."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Maya Angelou

"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 Sacks

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

- Aristotle

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

- Proverb

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

- Florence Nightingale

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

- Lionel Messi

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"There is no substitute for hard work, determination, and keeping the faith."

- Dorothy Height

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"The key to success is action and the essential in action is perseverance."

- Sun Yat Sen

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Self—confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her."

- Laozi

"Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you’ll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving."

- Carol Dweck

"The mind is just like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams."

- Donovan Bailey

"Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life."

- Harvey Mackay

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them."

- Tony Robbins

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."

- Robert H. Schuller

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Lou Holtz

"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

"Believe you can and you are halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Socrates

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it."

- Jonathan Winters

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Yoda

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

- Farrah Gray

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

- Will Rogers

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

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

- Benjamin Mays

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

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

- Michael Jordan

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Aristotle

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes, understanding that failure is not the opposite of success – it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"You can fail at what you don’t want – so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

"I wish I could tell you it gets better. But it doesn’t get better. You get better."

- Joan Rivers

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Elon Musk

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

- JJ Goldwag

"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

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

- Judy Garland

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Abraham Maslow

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"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

"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 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 will prepare and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

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

- Aristotle

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

- H.E. Luccock

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?"

- Matthew Woodring Stover

"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

- Booker T. Washington

"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

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- Henry Ford

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team."

- Reid Hoffman

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"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."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ken Blanchard

"Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality."

- John C. Maxwell

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

- Vince Lombardi

"Collaboration is multiplication."

- John C. Maxwell

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."

- Mother Teresa

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."

- Maya Angelou

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there."

- John Assaraf

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

- Meghan M. Biro

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

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Emily Voyles

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

- Mark Twain

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championship."

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- George Lucas

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

- Robert Hall

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- David Brinkley

"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

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

- Saint Francis

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

- Jag Randhawa

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Fred Allen

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Angela Ahrendts

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on."

- Satya Nadella

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Mary Barra

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

- Llyod Blankfein

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

- Michael Bierut

"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

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Michael Phelps

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

- Robert de Niro

"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

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- George Addair

"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

"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."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Charles Kingsley

"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

"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."

- Habeeb Akande

"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

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Alan Turing

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Jack Dorsey

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Indra Nooyi

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

- José Mourinho

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Barack Obama

"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

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

- Tyra Banks

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Bill Gates

"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

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Lou Holtz

"Well done, is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robin Sharma

"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

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

- Eraldo Banovac

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Pamela Stroko

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Bob Nelson

"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

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Komil Toume

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

- Ari Weinzweig

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Lorimer

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Doug Conant

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Chris Hadfield

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Malcolm X

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune."

- Sam Walton

"There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow."

- Jack Welch

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Thomas Edison

"If you don’t give people a chance to fail, you won’t innovate. If you want to be an innovative company, allow people to make mistakes."

- Indra Nooyi

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

- Arianna Huffington

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Michele Ruiz

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Ed Catmull

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Walter Elliot

"Going one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference."

- Sylvester Stallone

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Gandhi

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"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

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Anita Roddick

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

- Helen Keller

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

- Seth Godin

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Chloe Kim

"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

"Some companies don’t have an engagement problem, they have a hiring problem."

- Bob Kelleher

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Jim Rohn

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Tom Brady

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

- Joseph Barbara

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

- Jack Welch

"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

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

- Anita Roddick

"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

"When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning, is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps."

- John Lennon

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Max DePree

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Kevin Kruse

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You are never too small to make a difference."

- Greta Thunberg

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

- Alice

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Beverly Sills

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Michael Larsen

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges."

- Bryant McGill

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

- Joseph Barbara

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Steve Schulte

"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

"Act as if it was, and it will be."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

- Sophocles

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."

- Dylan Thomas

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

- Helena Rubinstein

"And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

- Thomas Huxley

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Perseverance brings good fortune."

- the I Ching

"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing."

- Donald Gardner

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

- Buddha

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Stephen Covey

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

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

- Robert Orben

"The whole is better than the sum of the parts."

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Truman Capote

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"Teamwork is a make-or-break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you."

- James Cash Penney

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

- Charles Schwab

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

- William James

"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

"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves and spend without fear of bankruptcy."

- Fred de Witt van Amburgh

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

- William Arthur Ward

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Successories

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"If you want to turn your life around, try to be thankful. It will change your life mightily."

- Gerald Good

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

- Willie Nelson

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful."

- Buddha

"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."

- Albert Barnes

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

"Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

"Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Genius is born—not paid"

- Oscar Wilde

"If you haven’t made any mistakes lately you must be doing something wrong."

- Susan Jeffers

"Work hard, be brave."

- Casey Neistat

"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

- Jonas Salk

"Genius is born—not paid."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Rebecca Wells

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Aristotle

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

- Anne Frank

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone."

- Gertrude Stein

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Michael Lopp

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- A.C. Benson

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

- Ben Horowitz

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

- Marie Curie

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

- Tom Hirshfield

"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job."

- Terence Fletcher

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Coco Chanel

"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

"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

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

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

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

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

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

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it"

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

"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."

"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent."

- Unknown

"Don’t always scrape and search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character and strength"