Inspiring July Quotes to Ignite Your Work Ethic

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Sam Levenson

"Be a voice, not an echo."

- Albert Einstein

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life."

- Arthur Ashe

"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons."

- Malala Yousafzai

"We must tell girls their voices are important."

- Malala Yousafzai

"All we are asking is for girls to be able to go to school, for women to be safer... we are not asking for a privilege, these are like basic human rights."

- Malala Yousafzai

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

- Nelson Mandela

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."

- Nelson Mandela

"As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.’"

- Tom Hanks

"Work. Don’t think. Relax."

- Ray Bradbury

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

- Arthur Ashe

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

"It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming."

- Charlotte Eriksson

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

- Tom Hanks

"July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart."

- Daisaku Ikeda

"July is a blind date with summer."

- Hal Borland

"I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free."

- Rosa Parks

"Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."

- Tom Hanks

"The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us."

- Paul Pitchford

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible."

- Sarah Dessen

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden."

- Jean Hersey

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

"When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it also helps us to develop inner happiness and peace."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not something readymade, it comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

- Elmer Davis

"The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July."

- Francis Thompson

"Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers."

- Sara Coleridge

"I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder."

- Terri Guillemets

"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."

- Jenny Han

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

- Abraham Lincoln

"What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time."

- Banana Yoshimoto

"The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is—that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things."

- Condoleezza Rice

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

- Albert Camus

"With freedom comes responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

- Amy Tan

"Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."

- Ronald Reagan

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

- Peter Marshall

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

- George Bernard Shaw

"America means opportunity, freedom, power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America is another name for opportunity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

- Barack Obama

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

- Bill Clinton

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

"Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us."

- Paul Pitchford

"Ask yourself this question; “Will this matter a year from now?”"

- Richard Carlson

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

- Oscar Wilde

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

- Bob Dylan

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

- James Bryce

"Independence now and forever!"

- Daniel Webster

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous."

- Frederick Douglass

"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."

- Mac Thornberry

"My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July."

- Rick Bass

"If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead."

- Roald Dahl

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."

- Hosea Ballou

"Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that."

- Chef José Andrés

"The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow."

- Chef José Andrés

"Dreams are the foundation of America."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor."

- Paul Tsongas

"America, to me, is freedom."

- Willie Nelson

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness."

- Louis D. Brandeis

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."

- Henry James

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"Autumn frosts have slain July."

- Lewis Carroll

"Then came July like three o'clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable."

- Allie Ray

"Every sunrise brings a new chapter, filled with possibilities waiting to be discovered."

"Just as the sun shines brightest in July, let your soul shine with unwavering confidence."

"Embrace the beauty of July and let it inspire you to live each day to the fullest."

"July is a season of growth; let it remind you to nurture your passions and watch them flourish."

"July is a reminder that life, like the seasons, is constantly blooming and evolving."

"With the warmth of July comes the perfect opportunity to sow seeds of joy and gratitude."

"The long days of July are perfect for creating memories and embracing new adventures."

"May the spirit of summer fill your heart with endless possibilities and unshakable hope."

"July is a reminder that hard work can be as warm and rewarding as a summer day."

"Success is not seasonal; even in July, perseverance pays off."

"Let the energy of July fuel your passion and drive at work."

"July is the perfect time to set new goals and achieve them with the same intensity as the summer heat."

"July's warmth can inspire a warm attitude toward your work."

"Every summer sunrise in July is a chance to start anew and work towards your dreams."

"July brings longer days—use them to make your workdays more productive."

"Just as July brings growth in nature, let it bring growth in your professional life."

"The brightness of July can reflect the brilliance of your work efforts."

"In July, let your enthusiasm for work be as boundless as the summer sky."

"July is the month where summer truly shines, bright and full of life."

"The sun in July makes everything glow with warmth and possibility."

"July is the month when summer feels endless and the days are full of promise."

"The heart of summer beats strongest in July."

"July is for sunsets that take your breath away and nights that linger just a little longer."

"In the midst of summer's warmth, may your heart be as radiant as the sun."

"July's summer days are perfect for creating memories that last a lifetime."

"July days and love's sweet haze—both are timeless."

"In the golden glow of July, love finds its perfect season."

"Our love is like a July sunset—fiery, beautiful, and unforgettable."

"July's warmth mirrors the warmth of your embrace."

"Every July day spent with you is a treasure to hold forever."

"In the heart of summer, love blossoms like a sunflower in July."

"July nights were made for whispered secrets and stolen kisses under the stars."

"Love is to the heart what July is to the year—warm and full of light."

"In July, every day is a page in our love story."

"The heat of July is nothing compared to the heat of my love for you."

"As July ends, we reflect on its sunny days and prepare to embrace the rest of summer."

"Saying goodbye to July, we carry forward its energy and memories into the coming months."

"The last day of July is a moment to appreciate the past month and anticipate the future."

"July, your time has come to an end, but your memories are timeless."

"Goodbye, July. The next chapter awaits."

"July, you will be missed but never forgotten."

"The last day of July is a reminder to savor every moment of summer before it slips away."

"As July comes to an end, we cherish the warmth and memories it has given us."

"On the final day of July, we reflect on the sunshine, laughter, and good times shared."

"The last day of July is a gentle nudge to enjoy every sunlit moment before summer fades."

"As we say goodbye to July, we hold on to the beautiful days and look forward to August."

"The last day of July brings a sense of nostalgia for the summer moments we've enjoyed."

"On this final day of July, we celebrate the month that brought us warmth and joy."

"The end of July is a time to remember the good times and gear up for what's next."