101 Motivational Quotes for Work

Not feeling up to it? Happens to the best of us. We all feel down every now and then, and it is completely normal. If you are in lack of the right mindset to ace your workday, here are a few motivational quotes to help you and your employees get out of the slump!

Motivating ourselves at work can feel like a difficult fight a lot of the time. All of us have had days when it seemed impossible to find the energy to get everything done on our list. We know that being truly driven and excited about what we do is important for finding happiness, being successful, and making the biggest difference in the world.

The good news is that we can get motivated again, even on days when we're having a hard time, by thinking about the bigger picture, getting in touch with our "why," celebrating small wins and looking for inspiration everywhere.

Finding your own personal motivators can help you find new sources of drive. It could be reminding yourself of the good things your efforts are doing, the goals you're working towards, or just the meaning that comes from working hard. We can turn those slumps of lack of motivation into bursts of creative energy if we have the right attitude and some motivation.

Everybody needs inspiration sometimes, and most of them need to be motivated to do their best, especially at work.

Without the right motivation, you or your employees might not put as much effort into their work and may cause them to lack engagement at work as well. With that thought, here are 101 quotes that can motivate everybody at work. Stick a few quotes on charts or provide one quote daily in your office's communication channels.

Effective leadership calls for vision, moral behavior, and inspiration of others. These inspirational sayings can inspire you to take the front stage and set an example.

1. "A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon Bonaparte
2. "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." - Seth Godin
3. "The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been." - Henry Kissinger
4. "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - Gen. Colin Powell
5. "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." - Harold S. Geneen
6. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." - Ronald Reagan
7. "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." - John C. Maxwell
8. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
9. "Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." - John C. Maxwell
10. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy
11. "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak." - Jim Rohn

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12. "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis
13. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
14. "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." - Ken Blanchard
15. "Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation." - Doris Kearns Goodwin
16. "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." - Douglas MacArthur
17. "Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure." - Stanley McChrystal
18. "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." - Margaret Thatcher
19. "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." - Arnold Glasow
20. "Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action." - Simon Sinek

When you need an inspirational boost, let these quotes reignite your passion, confidence, and determination to achieve great things.

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
2. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
3. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
4. "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
5. "Motivation comes from working on things we care about." - Sheryl Sandberg
6. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea." - Swami Vivekananda
7. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
8. "Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
9. "Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you." - Mark Cuban
10. "Determine your priorities and focus on them." - Eileen McDargh
11. "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
12. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
13. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
14. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
15. "Aim for the highest cloud so that if you miss it, you will land among the stars." - Hasidic Saying
16. "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
17. "Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you're driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed." - David Goggins

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18. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
19. "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." - Oscar Wilde
20. "When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho

Maintain your productivity and make the most of your time with these motivational quotes that will keep you focused and driven.

1. "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." - Stephen Covey
2. "Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." - Stephen King
3. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
4. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
5. "Done is better than perfect." - Sheryl Sandberg
6. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein
7. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
8. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
9. "The difference between grinders and non-grinders isn't perceived, inherited talent - it's work ethic." - Eric Thomas
10. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
11. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
12. "Stay focused and keep going. No matter what." - Zak Frazer
13. "I don't have time to wait for success, so I'll pursue it relentlessly." - Steven Cuoco
14. "Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort." - Paul J. Meyer
15. "Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest." - Leo Babauta
16. "You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time." - Stuart McMillan

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17. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
18. "Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine." - Jack Ma
19. "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." - Michael John Bobak
20. "There's no traffic once you get going." - Michael Ginsburg

Dream big and then make it happen. These motivational quotes will inspire you to set ambitious goals and develop the mindset to achieve them.

1. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
2. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. "If you can dream it, you can achieve it." - Zig Ziglar
4. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
5. "Goals help you channel your energy into action." - Les Brown
6. "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
7. "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie
8. "All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go." - Norman Vincent Peale
9. "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving the mark." - Michelangelo
10. "A goal properly set is halfway reached." - Zig Ziglar
11. "Goals are dreams with deadlines." - Diana Scharf Hunt
12. "Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you." - Jeffrey Gitomer

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13. "You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have." - Zig Ziglar
14. "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act." - Pablo Picasso
15. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them." - Haim Ginott
16. "Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination." - Earl Nightingale
17. "The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream." - James Allen
18. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Henry David Thoreau
19. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
20. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh

Let these words of wisdom from highly successful people in various fields motivate you to persevere in pursuit of your ambitions.

1. "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it." - Estee Lauder
2. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand." - Vince Lombardi
3. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing." - Pele
4. "There is no substitute for hard work." - Thomas Edison
5. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
6. "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
7. "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." - Will Rogers
8. "Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
9. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. "Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances." - B.J. Gupta
11. "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather
12. "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." - Lucille Ball
13. "Without labor nothing prospers." - Sophocles
14. "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews

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15. "In the midst of life's quests, there is always one more requisite: The ladder upon which all the other things lean. That one thing is effort." - Lori Hardy
16. "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." - Plato
17. "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson
18. "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli
19. "The price of excellence is hard work, dedication to the job at hand." - Vince Lombardi
20. "Nothing worth having comes easy." - Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody Loves and Appreciates A Motivated You!

These 101 motivational quotes are a good reminder that there is always a way to get motivated and move forward, no matter how hard things get.

These words can help us stay on track to reach our goals through guidance, efficiency, goal-setting, or the advice of people who have already done it.

Remember that success doesn't happen by chance; it comes from hard work, desire, and determination. So, keep these words close, let them motivate you, and get it done!