150 Top Motivational Quotes for Work to Inspire Your Workers

Motivational Quotes for Work to Inspire Your Workers – Need a little boost to get through the workday? Feeling your motivation lagging? We all have those moments when work feels like, well, work. Sometimes, all it takes is a quick dose of inspiration to reignite your passion and get you back on track.

That’s why I’ve compiled 150 motivational quotes, hand-picked to spark your drive, shift your perspective, and remind you why you’re doing what you’re doing. Whether you’re facing a challenging project, striving for a promotion, or just need a little encouragement to make it through the day, these quotes are here to provide that extra push.

Read: 50 Amazing Quotes To Motivate Workers to Improve their Performance

150 Top Motivational Quotes for Work to Inspire Your Workers 

1.  “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

2.  “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” —Alexander Graham Bell

3.  “Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.” —Unknown

4.  “Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success.” —Arianna Huffington

5.  “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” —Richard Branson

6.  “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill

7.  “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown

8.  “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

9.  “Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen.” —Conan O’Brien

10. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” —Tim Notke

11. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell

12. “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

13. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou

14. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” —Frank Ocean

15. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” —Simon Sinek

16. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke

17. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

18. “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan

19. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

20. “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

21. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work”. Stephen King

22. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” Albert Einstein.

23. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” Oprah Winfrey

24. “ACT. Actions kills procrastination and creates momentum to keep yourself motivated to keep moving ahead.” Dani Johnson

25. “Becoming is better than being.” Carol Dweck

26. “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

27. “When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what? “ Sydney Harris

28. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”  Bruce Lee

29. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” Scott Belsky

30. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” Marie Curie

31. “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

32. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Michael Jordan

33. “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

34. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

35. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

36. “Leap and the net will appear.” — John Burroughs

37. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” — Robert H. Schuller

38. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

39. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” — Latin Proverb

40. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke

41. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh

42. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

43. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

44. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” — Roy T. Bennett

45. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis

46. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

47. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

48. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

49. “Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all.” ― Dr. John Izzo

50. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

51. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

52. “The future depends on what you do today.” —  Mahatma Gandhi

53. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

54. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

55. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

56. “The only way to achieve greatness is to believe in yourself and never give up.” — Alexander the Great

57. “Success is not measured by how high you climb, but by how many times you get back up after falling down.” — Abraham Lincoln

58. “The path to success is never easy, but each failure is a lesson that brings us closer to our goals.” — Winston Churchill

59. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

60. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

61. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn

62. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale

63. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

64. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

65. “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett

66. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde

67. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.” —Tony Robbins

68. “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”

69. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

70. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

71. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do”

72. “Keep going”

73. “Leap and the net will appear”

74. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

75. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out”

76. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars”

77. “Venture a little way past them into the impossible”

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

79. “Don’t count the days, make the days count”

80. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”

81. “Make a positive difference to the world”

82. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”

83. “Our doubts of today”

84. “The best way to predict the future is to create it”

85. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity”

86. “Choose not to risk failure at all”

87. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there”

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

89. “The future depends on what you do today”

90. “Don’t waste it living someone else’s life”

91. “It always seems impossible until it’s done”

92. “Walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”

93. “Believe in yourself and never give up”

94. “How many times you get back up after falling down”

95. “Each failure is a lesson that brings us closer to our goals”

96. “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success”

97. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”

98. “The road to success is always under construction.”

99. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”

100. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

101. “What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up.”

102. “Dream bigger. Do bigger.”

103. “Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.”

104. “When you feel like stopping, think about why you started.”

105. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go”

106. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone working harder than you do”

107. “You are capable of more than you know”

108. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles”

109. “The mind is everything. What you think you become”

110. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

111. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

112. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”

113. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”

114. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

115. “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.”

116. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it”

117. “Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings”

118. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”

119. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

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

121. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

122. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

123. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

124. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

125. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

126. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

127. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

128. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

129. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

130. “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who want to make things happen and those who want to know why things didn’t happen.”

131. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

132. “The best revenge is massive success.”

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

134. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

135. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

136. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”

137. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

138. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

139. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

140. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

141. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

142. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

143. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.”

144. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

146. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

147. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

148. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

149. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

150. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary”