No matter how much you love your job, everybody has off days. Whether you’re lacking motivation or just need a little pick me up, here are 50+ inspirational quotes for work that will help you make it to the end of the day – no matter what day of the week it is.
Monday: Inspirational Quotes to Stay Motivated
1. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
2. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
3. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!” – Thoreau
4. “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
5. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
6. “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl, “My Uncle Oswald”
Tuesday: Inspirational Quotes for Success
7. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
8. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
10. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
11. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
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Wednesday: Inspirational Quotes for Working Smarter Not Harder
12. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
13. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln
14. “I don’t believe in luck or in hard work without the so called “work smart”. It’s not all about how you work hard but it’s about how you manage your time, resources, mind to work together for a better output.” – Jayson Zabate
15. “I used to work extremely hard and didn’t really achieve a lot of tangible things. But when I started working extremely smart, the gates of abundant blessings opened up for me.” – Edmond Mbiaka
Thursday: Inspirational Quotes to Help You Keep Going
16. “If I look back I am lost.” – George R.R. Martin
17. “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” – George Lucas
18. “Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused.” – Cliff Burton
19. “I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.” – Sylvester Stallone
20. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
21. “It’s been one of those years where you just try to keep going and learn on what you need to do to make yourself better. You just have to keep going.” – Kyle Busch
22. “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
23. “Only one person can stop me or keep me going; I myself.” – Vikrmn
Friday: Inspirational Quotes About Beating Fear
24. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
25. “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
26. “Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
27. “Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
28. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford
29. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
30. “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell
31. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
Saturday: Inspirational Quotes to Add to Your Work Email
32. “It’s better to give than to receive. Especially advice.” – Mark Twain
33. “The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.” – Edward de Bono
34. “Oh, so they have internet on computers now!” – Homer Simpson
35. “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” – Walt Disney
36. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
37. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
38. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf
39. “Great companies are built on great products.” – Elon Musk
Sunday: Inspirational Quotes for the Week Ahead
40. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
41. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
42. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” – John F. Kennedy
43. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
44. “Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
45. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
46. “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
47. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
48. “There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.” – Joel Osteen
49. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
50. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Theresa
Bonus Quotes – Inspirational Quotes for Employers
51. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
52. “Believe in yourself. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
53. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
54. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
55. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
Inspirational Quotes for Employees
56. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley
57. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
58. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen
59. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” – Marissa Mayer
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