100 Quotes To Inspire Work
Quotes about success
- “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” ― Peter F. Drucker
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel
- “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” ― Seth Godin
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill
- “Dear optimist, pessimist and realist ― while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”— Lori Greiner
- “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”— Napoleon Hill
- “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”— Wayne Huizenga
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”— Thomas Edison
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”— Drew Houston
- “’Move fast and break things.’ …unless you are breaking some stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”— Mark Zuckerberg
Quotes about leadership
- “If only we had the power to see ourselves in the same way that others see us…for anyone in a leadership role, it should be an essential part of […] a company’s standard operating procedures.”― Richard Branson
- “Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.”― Herb Kelleher
- “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.”― Jack Welch
- “Just because you are a CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.” ― Indra Nooyi
- “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”― Brian Tracy
- “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”― Kenneth H. Blanchard
- “Leadership is an action, not a position.”― Donald McGannon
- “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”― Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”― Margaret Thatcher
Quotes about goals
- “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” ― Michelle Obama
- “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” ― Robert H. Schuller
- “I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.”— Andrea Jung
- “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
- “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Les Brown
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”— Tony Robbins
- “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”— Bruce Lee
- “It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.”— Cheryl Strayed
- “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”— Booker T. Washington
- “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”— C.S. Lewis
Quotes about failure
- “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”— Steve Jobs
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”— Henry Ford
- “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”― Maya Angelou
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”― Winston Churchill
- “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”― Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “A little more persistence, a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”― Elbert Hubbard
- “You are solely responsible for your success and your failure. 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
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”― Winston Churchill
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”― Colin Powell
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”― Og Mandino
Quotes about integrity
- “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” ― Louisa May Alcott
- ”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”― Oprah Winfrey
- ”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success. Without honesty, confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”― Mary Kay Ash
- ”The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ”Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness […] is the proof of your moral integrity, because it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”― Ayn Rand
- “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.”― Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”― Bob Marley
- “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”― Samuel Johnson
- “To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”― Douglas Adams
- “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”― R. Buckminster Fuller
Quotes about perseverance
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”― Thomas Edison
- “Fall down seven times and stand up eight.”― Japanese Proverb
- “What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?”― Karen Salmansohn
- “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”― Confucius
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”― Nelson Mandela
- “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence…Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”― Calvin Coolidge
- “If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”― Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”― Anonymous
- “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”― Thomas Fowell Buxton
- “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”― Christopher Reeve
Quotes about creativity & innovation
- “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”― Dee Hock
- “Creativity is just connecting things. “— Steve Jobs
- “Creativity and innovation are about finding unexpected solutions to obvious problems, or finding obvious solutions to unexpected problems.”— ReiInamoto
- “When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”— Walter Lippman
- “The things we fear most in organizations are the primary sources of creativity.”— Margaret J. Wheatley
- “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.”— Albert Einstein
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The most dangerous idea is silencing people.”— Naval Ravikant
- “Originality is the best form of rebellion.”— Mike Sasso
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”— Maya Angelou
Quotes about hard work
- “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”— Indira Gandhi
- “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”— Jim Rohn
- “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”— Calvin Coolidge
- “When I meet successful people, I ask about who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.”— Kiana Tom
- “If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.”— Joyce Chapman
- “No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.”— Elon Musk
- “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”— Arianna Huffington
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”— Vidal Sassoon
- “Without labor, nothing prospers.”— Sophocles, philosopher
- “My biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.”— Maria Bartiromo
Quotes about confidence
- “We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”— Marie Curie
- “True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.”— Benjamin Burt
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps as the confidence of their help.”— Epicurus
- “He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.”— Floyd V. Filson
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”— Helen Keller
- “Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.”— Bruce Lee
- “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered — just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.”— Barrie Davenport
- “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”— Arthur Ashe
- “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”— Peter T. Mcintyre
Quotes about prosperity
- “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”— Seneca
- “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”— Ayn Rand
- “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”— Erich Fromm
- “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”— Zig Ziglar
- “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”— Henry Ford
- “To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.”— William Austin
- “When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”— Confucious
- “Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”— Calvin Coolidge
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”— Herman Cain
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.”— Kim Garst
