List of inspirational work quotes

From career changes to work-life balance to typical work days, here is a list of work quotes to encourage your team.

Motivational quotes for work

1. “Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success.” -Arianna Huffington, businesswoman.
2. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” -Richard Branson, businessman.
3. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt, president.
4. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford, businessman.
5. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” -Jimmy Johnson, football player.
6. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -said Nelson Mandela, the world leader
7. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw, writer.
8. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Ralph Stripey Guy Emerson, philosopher.
9. “You are not your resume; you are your work.” -Seth Godin, Author.
10. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” -John F Kennedy, president.
11. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Lou Holtz, football player.
12. “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, philosopher
13. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” -Unknown.
14. “Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese proverb.
15. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” -Zig Ziglar, author.
16. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” -Dalai Lama, spiritual leader.
17. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” -Mark Twain, writer.
18. “The best revenge is massive success.” -said Frank Sinatra, singer.

Inspirational quotes for work

1. “Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” -Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, entertainer.
2. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle, philosopher.
3. “Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen.” -Conan O’Brien, comedian.
4. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” -said Tim Notke, coach.
5. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Colin Powell, politician.
6. “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, baseball player.
7. “Most people miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison, inventor.
8. “A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence.” -Jim Watkins, businessman.
9. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” -Newt Gingrich, politician.
10. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou, writer.
11. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” -Frank Ocean, musician.
12. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Chinese proverb.
13. “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, businessman
14. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -said Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights leader.
15. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart, aviator.
16. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.” -Simon Sinek, author.
17. “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Socrates, philosopher.
19. “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.” -Barack Obama, president.
20. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” -William Faulkner, writer.

Positive quotes for work

1. “If you’ve created a work culture where vulnerability isn’t ok, you’ve also created a culture where innovation and creativity aren’t ok.” -Brené Brown, professor, and lecturer
2. “Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” -Simon Sinek, author.
3. “The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture.” -says Edgar Schein, professor and organizational expert.
4. “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” -Richard Branson, businessman.
5. “All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.” -John Maxwell, author.
6. “To handle yourself use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady.
7. “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, president.
8. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry Truman, President.
9. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, writer.
10. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether he’s twenty or eighty.” -Henry Ford, businessman.
11. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.” -Chanakya, teacher.
12. “If you are not growing, you are dying.” -Tony Robbins, motivational speaker.
13. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” -Helen Hayes, actress.
14. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” -Leonardo Da Vinci.
15. “Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.” -Arab proverb.
16. “We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey, philosopher.

Encouraging quotes for work

1. “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” -said Hillary Clinton, a politician.
2. “No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.” -Paul Tsongas, politician.
3. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” -Dolly Parton, entertainer.
4. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do list.” -Michelle Obama, first lady.
5. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” -Stephen Covey, author.
6. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. It is all life. The balance has to be within you.” -Sadhguru, author.
7. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” -Charles Buxton, writer, and politician.
8. “You can have it all. You can’t have it all at once.” -Oprah Winfrey, media mogul.
9. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” -Rumi, poet.
10. “Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.” -Dr. Seuss, author
11. “If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” -Banksy, artist.