50+ Short Work Inspirational Quotes to Boost Your Motivation

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Confucius

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

- Helen Keller

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Steve Jobs

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Yoda

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

- Winston Churchill

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Robert Collier

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Babe Ruth

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"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

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"I never dreamt of success. I worked for it."

- Estee Lauder

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Maya Angelou

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream."

- Debby Boone

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

"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

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right."

- Tony Robbins

"Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred DeVito

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win."

- Kylie Francis

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do."

- Nicki Minaj

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."

- Joe Torre

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

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

- Stephen Covey

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- George Addair

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning."

- Margaret Heffernan

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Conan O’Brien

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it."

- Gertrude B. Elion

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it."

- Johnny Depp

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

- Yvon Chouinard

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest."

- Leo Babauta

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

- President John Quincy Adams

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful."

- Dani Johnson

"There’s no abiding success without commitment."

- Tony Robbins

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."

- Miguel De Unamuno

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Don’t justify your dreams, execute on them."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"If something’s important enough, you should try."

- Elon Musk

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

- Steve Jobs

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Ayn Rand

"Forget the past and live in the present hour."

- Sarah Knowles Bolton

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing."

- Barry Werner

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Farrah Gray

"Self – trust is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Maya Angelou

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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

- Truman Capote

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

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

- Babe Ruth

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Walter Elliot

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Lou Holtz

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

- Henry Ford

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Peter Drucker

"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."

- Maya Angelou

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Amelia Earhart

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

- Jim Rohn

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Yoda

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Muhammad Ali

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Colin Powell

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

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

- Aristotle

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits."

- Eric Thomas

"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live."

- Anne Sweeney

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."

- Denis Waitley

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese proverb

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Henry Ford

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities."

- Sophia Amoruso

"The more I want to get something done the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight."

- Remi Witt

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Tony Robbins

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

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

- Banksy

"You are not your resume, you are your work."

- Seth Godin

"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 journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Anne Frank

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"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

"If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

- Eva Young

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

- Meister Eckhart

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Tim Notke

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Will Rogers

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you."

- Tony Morgan

"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

- Tony Robbins

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Colin R. Davis

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Lou Holtz

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."

- Irish Proverb

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

- Alan Wilson Watts

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

- Milton Berle

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Joseph Barbara

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Stephen King

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F Kennedy

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

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

- Estee Lauder

"I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you."

- Derek Jeter

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

- Florence Nightingale

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- Chanakya

"If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- Brian Tracy

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

- M. Scott Peck

"It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

- Colin Powell

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- C.S. Lewis

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

- Jim Rohn

"Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people."

- Tena Desae

"You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything."

- Ali Krieger

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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

- Robert Collier

"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Joyce Brothers

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough."

- David A. Bednar

"If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything."

- Marva Collin

"Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learning. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path."

- Phillip Sweet

"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."

- Lemony Snicket

"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing."

- William Arthur Ward

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

"No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”"

- Jaymin Shah

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."

- Margaret Fuller

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock

"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

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Kevin Kruse

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Max DePree

"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

"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

"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

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

- Meghan M. Biro

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

- Jack Welch

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- African Proverb

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Stephen Covey

"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 S. 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

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

- Jonathan Sack

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

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

- Aristotle

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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.

"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

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Ayn Rand

"Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

- Michael Jordan

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius."

- Alex Hormozi

"Some of life’s greatest opportunities are in the detours."

- Kevin J. Duncan

"Every time I do something that expands my personal comfort boundaries, I discover some strength I didn’t know I had."

- Pamela Wilson

"Everything is practice. Every word you write and action you take is a chance to get better."

- Jeff Goins

"Learn from your mistakes. The number one reason I see entrepreneurs failing isn’t because they make mistakes, but they keep on making the same ones over and over again. Learn from them and avoid making the same ones over again."

- Neil Patel

"Often people focus on their weakness and spend most of their time trying to get better. In my case, I do the opposite. I try to focus on my strengths and see how I can get even better."

- Syed Balkhi

"At some point or another, life punches everyone in the face. The punch may be hard, or it may be soft, but it’s definitely coming, and your success or failure is largely determined by the answer to a single question: how well can you take the punch?"

- Jon Morrow

"We don’t know what we’re capable of until we’re challenged."

- Adam Connell

"No true growth comes without opposition. Sadly, humans desperately try to avoid what’s uncomfortable. But what would you do if you knew you could not fail?"

- Jaime Buckley

"Rather than picking up your next book, take action on your last book."

- Alex Hormozi

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S Truman

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Ken Blanchard

"[Teamwork] is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Winston Churchill

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

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

- Phil Jackson

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton

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

- Martin Luther King Jr

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Chris Grosser

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

- Vince Lombardi

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost."

- Pat Summit

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert H. Schuller

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

- Erin Cummings

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly."

- Bear Grylls

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

- Maya Angelou

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It’s our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"If you have time to whine, then you have time to find a solution."

- Dee Dee Artner

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

- Anita Roddick

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail… a lot. The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation."

- Mark Cuban

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all."

- Dr. John Izzo

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"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

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

- Michael Larsen

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Michael Lopp

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

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Lloyd Dobens

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Pamela Stroko

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

- Bob Nelson

"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

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it."

- Bear Bryant

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team."

- Patrick Lencioni

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

- NAPOLEON HILL

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert

"I want to be remembered as the one who tried."

- Dr. Dorothy Height

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Dr. Steve Maraboli

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C. S. Lewis

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself]."

- Leo Tolstoy

"You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

- Timothy Leary

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact."

- Victor Hugo

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

- Ellen Glasgow

"I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny."

- Og Mandino

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"Courage is like a muscle – we strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordon

"To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

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

- A.C. Benson

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

- Olin Miller

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

- Coco Chanel

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Epictetus

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Arthur Ashe

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

- Bo Schembechler

"In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."

- Elon Musk

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

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

- Stephen King

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

- Albert Einstein

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"ACT. Actions kills procrastination and creates momentum to keep yourself motivated to keep moving ahead."

- Dani Johnson

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in."

- Arianna Huffington

"It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen."

- Scott Belsky

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!"

- T. Harv Eker

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

- Latin Proverb

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Keep going. Be all in."

- Bryan Hutchinson

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst."

- Wilson Kanadi

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"Growth is never mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Abby Wambach

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority."

- Christine Caine

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"You are either supporting the vision or supporting division."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

- James Russell Lowell

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

- Confucius

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"If you dwell on the past or future, you will miss the moment."

- Rumi

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing becomes dynamic until it becomes specific."

- Dani Johnson

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control."

- Kelly McGonigal

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team."

- Lewis B. Ergen

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

- Tibetan Proverb

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

- Margaret Carty

"Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

"When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?"

- Sydney Harris

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet."

- Sadie Delany

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face."

- Johnny Depp

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

- Jeff Bezos

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

"Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come."

- Mario Quintana

"Think of many things, do one."

- Portuguese proverb

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

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

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

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

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

"Stop waiting. The time will never be perfect. Things will always pop up. The best time to start is always now."

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

"Leap and the net will appear."

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

"Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all."

"Practice makes progress not perfect."

"Don’t tell people your dreams. Show them."

"You’re so much stronger than your excuses"

"Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do."

"Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later."