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223 Top Motivational Quotes for Work To Get the Team Going in 2025

Published on Jan 30th 2025
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Hanging some inspirational motivational quotes for work on the walls of your office or including them in your next Scrum or Daily Standup can impress employees, creating an encouraging environment. If you're wondering, "What is a positive quote for the workday?" and are unsure whether to look at Gandhi or Einstein for some words of wisdom, this list will provide your answer with a variety of wise words to inspire your team.

Note: Some of the quotes listed use "man" and "he/his/himself" instead of the preferred "person." In the spirit of gender equality, and because we believe in an inclusive workplace, we have edited these quotes to reflect more modern wording.

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If you've landed here, searching for motivational quotes for work or possibly positive quotes for work, you might be a team lead or the head of HR. If this is the case, team building activities might be on your list of things to do this year. Beyond the ice breaker questions lie fun, creative and energetic activities your team can do together from crafty ceramics projects to throwing a thunderously exciting Super Bowl party at work. You can never do enough to motivate your team. Interestingly, Classpop! has an abundance of team building activities in various cities around the world. 

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Short Inspirational Work Quotes

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Inspirational Wisdom Quotes

In an article in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, the increasingly complex nature of workplace structures heightens the need for motivation in a work setting. Making posters and hanging motivational quotes around your home are also great decorative home office ideas to get you through the solo workday. For a quick psychological pick-me-up, start with these motivational quotes for work. They're short and sweet, but still full of wisdom!

1. “Try not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

4. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” – Confucius

5. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” – Shirley Chisholm

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot (Fun fact: George Eliot was the pen name for Mary Ann Evans. She took this name to ensure her works were taken seriously in a male-dominated field!)

7. “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” – Les Brown

8. “I have stood on a mountain of nos for one yes.” – Barbara Elaine Smith

9. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” – A. A. Milne

10. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin

11. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” – Edna Mode

12. “We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” – Bruce Lee

13. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” – Maya Angelou

14. “Don't count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

15. “Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles.” – Arnold H Glasgow

16. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katherine Hepburn

17. “Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.” – Billie Burke

18. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Shuller

19. “Be so good they can't ignore you.” – Steve Martin

Motivational Quotes About Inspiration

Motivational Quotes About Inspiration
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When you're looking for inspiration in the office, motivational quotes for work are a superb place to start. Get ready to be inspired to beat that looming deadline or get that inbox to zero.

20. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

21. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

22. “Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something.” – Michael Lopp

23. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

24. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

25. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” – Tony Robbins

26. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

27. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

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

29. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey

30. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

31. “Ideation without execution is delusion.” – Robin Sharma

32. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

33. “Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” – Unknown

34. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” – Laird Hamilton

35. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

36. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

37. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

38. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn

39. “Go until you fail, then keep going.” – Jason Feifer

Powerful Motivational Quotes for Work

Powerful Motivational Quotes for Work
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Motivational Quotes on Choices

These motivational quotes for work will remind you how empowering a simple choice can be! Every day, we're faced with multiple choices that could change our life's trajectory. Grab that burger and beer after work or go for a slow 5K run. Finish that deadline three days before due and get some peace of mind or stay up late the night before. Reach for your phone to doom scroll or reach for a paperback.

While we aren't major proponents of positive psychology — we all need to indulge from time to time — making good decisions often can lead to a healthier lifestyle (for our bodies and minds). Sometimes all you need to make the right choice is a single well-strung-together phrase. So come back to this list of motivational quotes for work when you're struggling to make the better choice. 

40. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African Proverb

41. “We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform.” – Pete Cashmore

42. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a person's character, give them power." – Abraham Lincoln

43. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” – Albert Einstein

44. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

45. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright

46. “One secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for their opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

47. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen R. Covey

48. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitudes.” – William James

49. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

50. “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” – Jessica Ennis

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

52. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

54. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer

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

56. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

57. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” – Dr. Seuss

58. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” – Mia Hamm

59. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

60. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

61. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

62. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

63. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

64. “Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

65. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

66. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quotes about Purpose

Inspirational Quotes about Purpose
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Philosophers, psychologists and ponderous employees have all considered life's purpose. From Viktor Frankl's post-WWII wonderings to Sartre's existential meanderings to Justin Bieber's post-adolescent reflections, "purpose" has always been a hot topic in the minds of office workers. In 1991, social psychologist Roy Baumeister came up with a doozy. He said that humans have "four needs of meaning," which include purpose, value, efficacy and self-worth. Psychology lesson aside, motivational quotes for work to inspire you and help you feel filled with purpose might be just the thing you need to help you through your next project.

67. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

68. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse

69. “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Max DePree

70. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho

71. “I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard [...] We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai

72. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

73. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

74. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” – David Ogilvy

75. “Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself.” – Jason Fried

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

77. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” – Arlan Hamilton

78. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron

79. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” – Dita Von Teese

80. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” – Don Cheadle

81. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” – Kurt Vonnegut

82. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez

83. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

84. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

85. “Great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” – Mark Twain

86. “When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde

Motivational Quotes for Working Hard

Motivational Quotes for Working Hard
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Motivational Quotes for Success

Not many people have succeeded with a little failure. Even our first steps on earth were backed up by constant ups and downs (literally). Hard work doesn't always mean spending multiple days of overtime at the office, sometimes it's about your attitude to failure and how you motivate yourself past those failures in order to succeed. Motivational quotes for work about success come in all shapes and sizes. Even the same quote read at different stages in your life can have different impacts. So bookmark this article, or print out a few of your top motivational quotes for work and return to them from time to time. 

87. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

88. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs

89. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

90. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

91. “Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” – Dale Carnegie

92. “Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.” – Lucille Ball

93. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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

95. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

96. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

97. “You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

98. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” – Mortimer J. Adler

99. “Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” – Angela Bassett

100. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln

101. “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

102. “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” – Maria Edgeworth

103. “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” – Raymond Joseph Teller

104. “It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul Bryant

105. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas

106. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee

107. “Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

108. “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

109. “Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

110. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele

111. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

112. “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

Inspirational Quotes About Challenges

Inspirational Quotes About Challenges
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We've all had work challenges in our lives. From minor challenges like a broken elevator at work to major ones like deciding whether to change the trajectory of your career. Words can sometimes help you through these challenges in motivating and inspiring ways. It's actually quite amazing what a simple phrase can do when you're in a corner, showered with anxiety. These motivational quotes for work will help you get through those troubling times when challenges are big and hairy. Don't be Garfield, learn to love Mondays!

113. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

114. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

115. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.” – David Brinkley

116. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter

117. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

118. “It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest.” – Walter Anderson

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

120. “A person who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi

121. “The successful person will profit from their mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

122. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

123. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

124. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

125. “Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck

126. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.” – Germany Kent

127. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” – Isabel Allende

128. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

129. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

130. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick

131. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

132. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

133. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston

134. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

135. “First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. […] Habit is persistence in practice.” – Octavia Butler

136. “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens

137. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

138. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

139. “If you believe it will work, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

140. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

141. “If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.” – Unknown

142. “You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo

Motivational Quotes for Work Teams

Motivational Quotes for Work Teams
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Motivational Quotes on Leadership

Suffering from Imposter Syndrome in a leadership role? Push through by learning something small every day because Atomic Habits can lead to major changes over time. In the meantime, here are some motivational quotes for work to get you through your times of discomfort and inspire your team to work hard and trust in your leadership. 

143. “Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.” – Harvey Mackay

144. “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.” – Angela Ahrendts

145. “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” – Stanley McChrystal

146. “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect.” –Meghan M. Biro

147. “An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch

148. “Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others.” – Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D.

149. “The person who has confidence in themself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb

150. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

151. “Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.” – Fred Allen

152. "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold Glasow

153. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau

154. “Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

155. “Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy.” – Herb Kelleher

156. "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

157. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” – Stephen R. Covey

158. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Augustine Og Mandino

159. “Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job.” – Scott and Kelly Blanchard

160. “The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.” – Eric Hoffer

161. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

162. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell

Inspirational Work Quotes for Employees

Inspirational Work Quotes for Employees
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Now that you've motivated yourself, it's time to turn that focus to your team. If your team is new and you've had your fill of fun with ice breaker games, try to introduce some motivational quotes for work that the entire team can get behind. Even remote teams can become unified with these inspirational work quotes for employees.

163. “Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.” – Stephen Covey

164. “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

165. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

166. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

167. "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." – Michael Jordan

168. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro

169. “It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win.” – Emily Voyles

170. “It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together.” – Lloyd Dobens

171. “Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain

172. “Culture makes people understand each other better. [...] But first they have to understand that their neighbor is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.” – Paulo Coelho

173. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty

174. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

175. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” – Jean-Francois Cope

176. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

177. “We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” – Arthur Ashe

178. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

179. “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

180. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa

181. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin

Happy Work Quotes

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Motivational Quotes on Life

It's not all about doom and gloom at the office, shivering in existential dread. Sometimes, work can be fulfilling in itself. Whether your office is already a happy place to be and you'd like to add to that sunshine or you're struggling to get up in the morning, the happiest motivational quotes on life are here to raise your spirits.

182. “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.” – Tony Robbins

183. "Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done." – Robin S. Sharma

184. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek

185. “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” – Mary Kay Ash

186. “Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole.” – Tracy Streckenbach

187. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” – Mister Rogers

188. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

189. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

190. “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella

191. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

192. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

193. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

194. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama

195. “There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale

196. “Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” – Nanea Hoffman

197. “Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” – Byron Pulsifer

198. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

199. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet

200. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

201. “You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

202. “Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart.” – Drake

203. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – Unknown

204. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

205. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay

206. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

207. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell

208. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” – Abraham Lincoln

209. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

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

211. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational Quotes about Creativity

Inspirational Quotes about Creativity
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There are so many articles about the importance of creativity at work and in business. Everyone has an imagination, no matter how logical they may be — which means everyone can be creative or think in creative, novel ways. Sometimes the best answer to a solution is not to follow past successes but to think outside the box and come up with a different answer. Motivational quotes for work should always include a bit about creativity and thinking from a different perspective. This allows for serendipitous and chance instances where major breakthroughs occur. 

212. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

213. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

214. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

215. “Be a positive energy trampoline — absorb what you need and rebound more back.” – Dave Carolan

216. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” – Mia Hamm

217. “If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” – Tobias Lütke

218. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” – Epicurus

219. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” – Cormac McCarthy

220. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso

221. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

222. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

223. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

Remember to write your favorite motivational quotes for work on Post-Its and stick them where you can see them every day. Keep yourself motivated and satisfied at work with words of wisdom from some of the most inspirational humans who ever lived.

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