Some days you feel unmotivated. Or simply just tired and unfocused.
I know, I’ve been there too many times to count.
So to help you and myself out on such days I’d like to share 160 of the most positive, recharging and motivational quotes for work.
Ones that will give you a boost of energy. Relieve a bit of your stress and overwhelm.
And give you the inspiration to work hard today and to go after your goals and dreams.
Motivational Quotes for Work to Give You a Boost of Energy
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“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 wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
– Saint Francis
“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
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
– Steve Jobs
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
– Lou Holtz
“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius
“The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney
Short and Motivational Quotes to Help You Work Smart
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese Proverb
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker
“Impossible is just an opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“Done is better than perfect.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
“Small progress is still progress.”
– Tony Robbins
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke
“Work smarter, not harder.”
– Allen F. Morgenstern
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston
“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”
– Michael Jordan
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
– Thomas Edison
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs
“Don’t be busy. Be productive.”
– Tim Ferriss
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee
Funny Motivational Quotes for Stress Relief at Work
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’”
– Dave Barry
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
– John Gotti
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”
– Stanley J. Randall
“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.”
– Michel Tournier
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown
“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Tom Sachs
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
– Earl Nightingale
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
– Claude McDonald
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?”
– Edgar Bergen
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Bill Murray
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost
Positive and Motivational Work Sayings for Tough Days
“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
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
“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
“Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“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
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
– Peter Marshall
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
– Hermann Hesse
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.”
– Margaret Heffernan
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“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
“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
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
– Barack Obama
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert Schuller
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller
“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”
– Mario Fernandez
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
– Moliere
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
– Stephen Hawking
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Motivational Quotes for Smooth and Effective Teamwork
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi
“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
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb
“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.”
– Bill Bethel
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.”
– Amy Poehler
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
– Babe Ruth
“Teamwork 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
“A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.”
– Simon Sinek
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
– Napoleon Hill
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.”
– Mark Sanborn
“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.”
– Paul Solarz
“It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.”
– Knute Rockne
“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
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.”
– Alison Pincus
“The path to greatness is along with others.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John Maxwell
Inspirational Quotes on Hard Work and Success
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
– Frank Ocean
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne Johnson
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
“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
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
– Louis Pasteur
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant
“Work hard, have fun, make history.”
– Jeff Bezos
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
– Seneca
“There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”
– Michelle Obama
“If you do the work, you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
– Michael Jordan
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton
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