A little motivation may go a long way. whether you’re trying to stay motivated, meet deadlines, or get a promotion in your work. Motivational quotes serve as effective reminders of our objectives. Motivating us to overcome challenges and maintain our concentration. This article explores a number of motivational quotes and how they relate to succeeding in the workplace.
The Power of Positivity
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’”
Audrey Hepburn
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
Kobe Bryant
“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
Betty White
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.”
Ann Ruth Schabacker
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
Dolly Parton
“A dead end is just a good place to turn around.”
Naomi Judd
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”
Les Brown
Overcoming Challenges
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Billie Jean King
“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”
Scott Hamilton
“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.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.”
Lou Holtz
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
Victor Hugo
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Theodore Roosevelt
Victor Hugo
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
Walter Elliott
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
Julie Andrews Edwards
“There are two ways of attaining an important end: force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.”
Sophie Swetchine
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
Vince Lombardi
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.”
John C. Maxwell
“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
Charlie Jones
“The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.”
Lolly Daskal
“It is absolutely essential to hang in there–especially when you feel most discouraged.”
Steve Shallenberger
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
Tony Robbins
“Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere.”
Ashok Kallarakkal
“Perseverance is impossible if we don’t permit ourselves to hope.”
Dean Koontz
“No success was won without enthusiasm and perseverance.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
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Setting Goals and Taking Action
“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!”
Earl Nightingale, speaker and author
“When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.”
Jack Canfield
“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”
Michael Korda, writer
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle, comedian
“Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
Michelle Obama
The Importance of Teamwork
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.”
Halford E. Luccock
“In union there is strength.”
Aesop
“As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.”
Saul Perlmutter
“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”
Brian Tracy
“Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships and collaboration as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.”
Simon Mainwaring
“We talk a lot about hope, helping and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.”
Victoria Osteen
“If you’re going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it—you can’t just talk about it.”
“When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.”
Punit Renjen
“I’m a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.”
Julie Payette
“Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.”
Anna Soubry
“I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It’s not so important to get the glory. It’s much more important to get something that works. It’s a better way to live.”
Freeman Dyson
“On great teams—the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict and then commit to decisions—team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn’t serving the team.”
Patrick Lencioni
“The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.”
John Bardeen
“Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you’ve got to figure out who’s got what responsibilities and how do they work together.”
Clayton M. Christensen
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.”
Mark Sanborn
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team”
Phil Jackson
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
George Shinn
“Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.”
Dinesh Paliwal
Continuous Learning and Development
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
Albert Einstein
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
Richard Branson
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Abigail Adams
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Warren Buffett
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs
“In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.”
Jeff Bezos
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.”
W.B. Yeats
“You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream.”
Michael Dell
“He who laughs most, learns best.”
John Cleese
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Adapting To Change
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
John F. Kennedy
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
Jim Rohn
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
Chinese Proverb
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”
Georg C. Litchenberg
“Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It’s not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, ‘By God, I will not change, I will not have this.’ Then, you’re a dead man. We’re great at adaptability. It’s our strongest suit.”
Nick Nolte
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can’t manage.”
Paul Lutus
“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” – Nolan Ryan
“Action and adaptability create opportunity.”
Garrison Wynn
“When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“But in practice master plans fail – because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.”
Christopher Alexander
“Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”
Jessica Hagedorn
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”
H. G. Wells
“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.”
Jeff Bezos
“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It’s the end you’re after.”
Anthony Robbins
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Stephen Hawking
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
Bruce Lee
“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Jelaluddin Rumi
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”
Jean M. Auel
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
Motivation is essential part for overcoming working challenges. These motivational quotes into your everyday life can help to create a positive mindset. Whether you’re working on a challenging assignment or to advance your profession.
