Inspirational Quotes for Work
“Light tomorrow with today.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
John Wooden
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
Janet Dailey
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen Lamb
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Confucius
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
Tricia Cunningham
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho
“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
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Saint Francis
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
Alexander Graham Bell
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“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
”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
“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
“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.”
– Germany Kent
“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.“
– Edmond Mbiaka
“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
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
Elbert Hubbard
“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
“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
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge